After a year of embarrassing customer-service blunders, Comcast is trying to improve its image by offering free Internet-speed upgrades — but only to certain high-paying customers.
The FCC helped kill one bad merger earlier this year: Comcast’s bid to take over Time Warner Cable.
But on Tuesday it moved toward granting a different deal that’s also pretty awful.
No member of Congress should be allowed to dismantle good public policy by sneaking language into funding bills. But that’s exactly what’s been happening in the latest attack on Net Neutrality.
Want a blazing fast Internet? Well, you can get it if you live in select parts of the United States where ultra-high-speed services are available — and if you’re willing to pay a lot of money.
When I was 10 years old, I saw my dad on TV. On the nightly news, to be exact. Fully clad in Army gear, my father was standing on the hood of a jeep as he passed out food to Iraqi civilians.
For much of the past decade, the activists at the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, N.Y., have been strategizing ways to obtain a broadcast radio license.
Over the course of my first month as a Free Press intern, I wasn’t sure how often I would be interacting with our members. That all changed during our Net Neutrality In-District Drop-In Day on July 1.
