Monthly Archives: May 2006

Inouye Offers Senate Net-Neutrality Bill

Ted Hearn, Multichannel News In a sign of tension atop the Senate Commerce Committee, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) sponsored legislation Friday that would impose network-neutrality mandates on cable operators, phone companies and other providers of high-speed-Internet access. Inouye’s support puts him at odds with Commerce...
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Keeping a Democratic Web

New York Times “Net neutrality” is a concept that is still unfamiliar to most Americans, but it keeps the Internet democratic. Cable and telephone companies that provide Internet service are talking about creating a two-tiered Internet, in which Web sites that pay them large fees...
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