Comcast took to Washington this week to sell its mega-merger with Time Warner Cable. But it quickly became clear that the cable giant couldn't make the case.
On Tuesday, more than 50 public interest groups sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice outlining their case against the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger. The letter is a response to Comcast’s filing on Tuesday of its official merger paperwork.
There are a lot of horrible companies out there — but which one is at the absolute bottom of the barrel? Maybe even below the barrel, buried way deep in the ground?
New Jersey’s Board of Public Utilities has heard from hundreds of New Jersey residents about a settlement proposal that would let Verizon off the hook for failing to provide high-speed broadband service statewide no later than 2010. Hundreds of those comments were identical emails urging the state to forgive Verizon.
It’s a big day for the open Internet in Europe. After a five-year campaign to enact strong Net Neutrality rules across the continent, digital rights advocates finally got a vote in the European Parliament, which approved strong protections for a free and open Internet.
According to the Pew Research Center, there are nearly 200 nonprofit newsrooms around the United States — and by all accounts that number is on the rise.
