By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 7-27-17 Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin told a Senate Appropriations Committee audience at a hearing Wednesday that the administration is coming out with a position on state collection of internet taxes and signaled that could be a way to pay for needed infrastructure upgrades. Currently states can collect taxes on [...]

By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 7-12-17 Verizon joined the ISP internet day of advocacy chorus for legislation clarifying the FCC's broadband regulatory authority. That came in a blog post from D.C. senior VP Will Johnson. As were other ISPs, Johnson/Verizon applauded the passion of those taking part in the day of action. But [...]

By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 7-12-17 Title II fans were showing their support on the internet day of action, both by praising the FCC's current rules and by taking aim at the proposal by FCC chairman Ajit Pai to roll back Title II and reconsider the 2015 Open Internet order. “INCOMPAS is [...]

By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 7-12-17 On the eve of Wednesday's net neutrality day of action that will be devoted mostly to advocating for retaining Title II classification of internet access providers, NCTA: The Internet & Television Association blogged against conflating that regulatory regime with an open internet. "In the opinion of [...]

By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 6-7-17 According to political and policy lobbying group the National Legal and Policy Center, almost a quarter million pro-net neutrality comments in the FCC's Restoring Internet Freedom docket have come from outside the U.S., including from Russia. According to the self-described government watchdog group, which said it [...]

By Michael Malone, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 6-7-17 Lester Holt, NBC Nightly News anchor, discussed how things have changed of late for an evening news anchor while accepting an award from the Museum of the Moving Image in Manhattan. “Something remarkable has been happening over the last five months that I haven’t encountered in [...]

By  John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 5-31-17 The federal judges who upheld the FCC's TItle II classification of ISPs last year have signaled that even under those rules, ISPs could block content or slow certain traffic, just so long as they created a "walled garden" that had clear signage signaling that was what they [...]

By  John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 5-31-17 The National Legal and Policy Center has fired the latest shot in the battle over net neutrality comments filed with the FCC, saying that if its analysis is correct, it will ask Congress to investigate. Most of the pushback has come from Title II fans saying the other [...]

By  John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 5-23-17 Not surprisingly, the FCC has closed its review into the indecency complaints against Stephen Colbert's colorful criticisms of President Donald Trump.  Though the speed with which it reached that conclusion was noteworthy. "The FCC received thousands of complaints about the May 1 broadcast of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.  Consistent [...]