by JAM | Dec 16, 2014 | FCC, LISTA in the News, net neutrality, obama, Title II, USHCC
One of the most immediate and significant consequences of reclassifying broadband as a Title II telecommunications service is that it provides a new opening for governments wanting to impose a variety of new taxes and fees on Internet services. In recent weeks NCTA...
by JAM | Nov 12, 2014 | FCC, LISTA, LISTA in the News, Negocios Now, obama, Policy, Title II
This week, President Obama published his principles for the Open Internet on whitehouse.gov, noting: “More than any other invention of our time, the Internet has unlocked possibilities we could just barely imagine a generation ago. And here’s a big reason we’ve seen...
by JAM | Nov 10, 2014 | FCC
“Verizon supports the open Internet, and we continue to believe that the light-touch regulatory approach in place for the past two decades has been central to the Internet’s success. Reclassification under Title II, which for the first time would apply 1930s-era...
by JAM | Nov 10, 2014 | #techlatino247, Barack Obama, Big data, Comcast, Cyber Security, FCC, HTTP, net neutrality, spectrum, Title II
The President’s Statement An open Internet is essential to the American economy, and increasingly to our very way of life. By lowering the cost of launching a new idea, igniting new political movements, and bringing communities closer together, it has been one...
by JAM | Sep 26, 2014 | #techlatino247, Broadband, Comcast, digital media, FCC, Government, Health IT, inclusion, Kapor, LISTA, LISTA in the News, Negocios Now, silicon valley, Sprint
The battle over the nation’s high-speed Internet policy is a complicated one and, if carried out inadequately, could spur a series of unintentional outcomes. That conflict is being fought out at the Federal Communications Commission as it considers the Open Internet...
by JAM | Aug 2, 2014 | #techlatino247, Broadband, digital media, Diversity, FCC, HTTP, Kapor, LISTA, LISTA in the News, net neutrality, Policy, spectrum, USHCC
Latinos in Information Science and Technology Association (LISTA) applaud the Federal Commission Communications, the agency responsible for oversight of the nation’s communications system, for its timely and promising circulation of a proposed rule making on the...