Telecommunications Policy

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Telecommunications Policy

OMB Signs Off On FCC Net Neutrality Rules

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 …

Directing Traffic: Managing Internet Bandwidth Fairly

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…

Preserving Internet Freedom: Guiding Principles for the Industry

February 8, 2004

This is a speech given by Michael K. Powell, when he was Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, at the Silicon Flatirons Symposium on "The Digital Broadband Migration: Toward a R…

U.S. Internet Access Policy

March 7, 2008

A worldwide tussle over Internet access policy is playing out right now, and many countries are closely watching what the United States does. This talk will provide a brief overview of the U.S. r…

FCC wants to know: Is degrading P2P traffic 'reasonable'?

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…

What Price Insularity? Reflections About Computer Security Failings

January 4, 2008

Why is it risky for technologists to ignore the nontechnical context where their systems will be deployed? Furthermore, what is the risk when policymakers ignore the limits and potential of techn…

FCC asked to bar cellular carriers from blocking SMS traffic

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…

Group Puts Broadband Providers on Net Neutrality Watch

November 9, 2007

The Net Neutrality Squad will keep an eye out for ISPs that interfere with the free flow of Internet traffic. The Net Neutrality Squad will keep …

Verizon Overrides Internet Searches With Its Own Results

November 5, 2007

"Subscribers to Verizon's high-powered fiber-optic Internet service (FiOS) are reporting that when they mistype a Web site address, they get redirected to Verizon's own search engi…

Comcast Blockage of BitTorrent 101

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…