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FCC Expands Internet Rules In Party Line, 3-2 Vote

The Federal Communications Commission approved revised net neutrality rules on Thursday after Chairman Tom Wheeler painted broadband service providers as potential villains that could thwart the Internet’s growth, as critics warned that the agency’s expanded regulatory powers would have the same chilling effect. The FCC voted 3-2 along party lines to regulate ISPs such as Comcast (CMCSA) and AT&T (T) under what Wheeler calls “modernized” Title II

Net Neutrality Plan: Devil Or Relief In The Details?

Internet service providers hope to gain from last-minute deal-making over net neutrality as the Federal Communications Commission prepares to vote on Internet regulation at its meeting Thursday. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, under pressure by the Obama administration to impose public-utility type rules on Internet broadband, has proposed that Title II should apply to ISPs such as leader Comcast (CMCSA). Title II rules have applied to phone companies

Comcast Needs TWC Deal As NBCU Cable Networks Lag

Poor Q4 results at NBCUniversal’s cable networks give Comcast more reason to go along with whatever tough conditions federal regulators will likely put on Comcast’s proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable. How so? Merging with Time Warner Cable (TWC) would boost Comcast’s (CMCSA) growth from pay TV, broadband and business services while it works on a turnaround at NBCU, where broadcast TV and cable network audience ratings have weakened as