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Senate Panel Questions Net Neutrality

Various writers (net@telecom-digest.org)
Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:59:04 -0500

Stevens: "Not going to do" common-carrier regulations

The chairman of a U.S. Senate committee debating broadband legislation
said Tuesday he would not allow broadband providers to be regulated
like large telephone carriers were in the past, despite calls for a
law prohibiting broadband providers from blocking or slowing some
Internet traffic.

Net neutrality backers want a return to "common carrier" requirements,
in which telecommunications carriers were required to give all
customers the same service and standard rates, Stevens said during a
Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on a
communications reform bill. "We're not going to do that," said the
Alaska Republican.

You can read the entire coverage of the hearing on
http://ComputerWorld.com.

For more coverage of Tuesday's Senate hearing on Net Neutrality, we suggest:

http://InternetNews.com: Senate Showing Little Interest in Net Neutrality

WASHINGTON - The network neutrality debate resumed today in the
U.S. Senate the way it ended in the House of Representatives Thursday
night: apparently dead on arrival.

As the Senate Commerce Committee held its third of three hearings on a
telecom reform bill, lawmakers seemed content to leave the
controversial issue to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

http://CNET News.com: Net neutrality fight returns to Senate Analysis:
Leaders of the Senate Commerce Committee are negotiating over how to
deal with the controversial concept, while committee members and
advocacy groups take turns airing their positions

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