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President Donald Trump’s FCC has put the kibosh on controversial Obama-era net neutrality regulations. At its monthly meeting Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission, led by Republican Chairman Ajit Pai, voted to repeal regulation passed in 2015 that prevented broadband companies from blocking or slowing access to websites or services. The rules also prohibited broadband companies …

Internet service providers got an early Christmas gift. The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to repeal Obama-era net neutrality rules, handing the broadband and wireless industries a big victory in their battle against government oversight of the internet. The Republican-led FCC voted 3-2 along party lines to dismantle the 2015 regulations, which ensured all traffic on the internet is treated …

Now playing: Watch this: Net neutrality rollback: is the open internet under siege?… 5:07 Here’s what we’re talking about in today’s podcast. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai makes his case against existing net neutrality rules and claims Twitter could be more harmful to an open internet than killing net neutrality. Comcast denies plans to offer internet “fast lanes.” The 3:59 gives you …

Comcast said it has no plans to offer fast lanes on the internet after the Federal Communications Commission eliminates Obama-era regulation, which banned the practice. On Tuesday, the nation’s biggest cable operator responded to a report from the website Ars Technica, which stated Comcast might be considering offering a service that would charge companies like Netflix and Google to deliver …

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai wants the US government to stop “micromanaging the internet.” On Tuesday he introduced a proposal to repeal the controversial 2015 net neutrality rules that prevented broadband companies from blocking or slowing down access to websites or services.  While many people agree with the basic principles of net neutrality, these specific rules have been a lightning rod …

Comcast’s Xfinity internet service is suffering major issues on Monday, the company confirmed. Consumers in several US cities, including San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle and New York, have reported outages, according to the website Down Detector. The site says 66 percent of the reports are about issues with internet service. Comcast said it’s working to fix the problem. Some customers are having …

I just upgraded to gigabit broadband at home. But being able to download a 2GB episode of “Game of Thrones” in 16 seconds isn’t what gets me excited. It’s the ability to upload data at 1 gigabit per second — not just download it — that helped me decide to cancel Comcast and sign up for AT&T Fiber. Downstream data …

First there was Netflix. Now there’s… just about everybody. The latest major TV provider to offer a subscription TV streaming service is FX Networks, home of “American Horror Story,” “The Americans,” and plenty of other shows without “America” in the title. Its new FX+ service will launch Sept. 5, the company announced Monday. Its shows will stream commercial-free and it’s …

The public is fired up about net neutrality.  More than 10 million comments have been filed at the Federal Communications Commission on a proposal to roll back  net neutrality regulations.  That’s more than twice as many comments as were filed two years ago when the FCC was considering the current rules. The Republican-led FCC introduced a proposal in May to roll …

Millions of people have answered a call to support the Federal Communications Commission’s existing net neutrality rules.  But will that be enough to convince the agency to back off of its plan to kill them? In response to the planned overhaul, the Republican-led FCC has received a record-breaking 7.4 million comments — nearly double the amount it received in 2014 when it …