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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Telecommunications Policy
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FCC Telecom Service Provider Accessibility Certification Rules
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April 22, 2013
Our friends at ACUTA (the higher education telecommunications administrators association) have posted an alert to colleges and universities that "charge students, tenants, or others for …
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2013 Communications Policy Issues
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January 23, 2013
I attended the Broadband Breakfast meeting last week, where Rep. Anna Eshoo and three Congressional staff gave an interesting preview of the communications policy issues to be addressed in the 11…
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How USF Reform Might Affect Colleges and Universities: Some Early Appraisal
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May 3, 2012
For many decades, telephone users served by commercial providers—including campuses—have paid surcharges on their interstate and international long-distance calls. The revenue collected by t…
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7 Things You Should Know About Net Neutrality
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June 22, 2010
Net neutrality is the principle that broadband Internet providers will handle all network traffic in a nondiscriminatory manner. The Internet was conceived as an “open” service that would ope…
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OMB Signs Off On FCC Net Neutrality Rules
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September 13, 2011
On September 12, 2011, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) signed off on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Open Internet Order (aka Net Neutrality) following their review of …
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Directing Traffic: Managing Internet Bandwidth Fairly
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August 4, 2008
© 2008 Thomas A. Paine and Tyler J. Griggs Good Ideas Directing Traffic: Managing Internet Bandwidth Fairly Using open source software to build a traffic management system gave our camp…
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FCC wants to know: Is degrading P2P traffic 'reasonable'?
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January 15, 2008
"As foreshadowed at the Consumer Electronics Show last week , federal regulators this week took the first formal step into investigating complaints about how Internet service providers, s…
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FCC asked to bar cellular carriers from blocking SMS traffic
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December 11, 2007
A handful of public-interest groups have filed a petition (PDF) with the Federal Communications Commission asking it to prevent cellular service providers from blocking text messages from adv…
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Comcast Blockage of BitTorrent 101
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October 23, 2007
"According to an Oct. 19 article by the Associated Press, Comcast has been actively degrading and blocking BitTorrent traffic, amounting to "the most drastic example yet of data discri…
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Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
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October 19, 2007
Comcast has been blocking the sharing of certain files on their users network as a means of managing its network to keep file-sharing traffic from swallowing too much bandwidth and affecting the…

















