GNG News Guy
03-05-2008, 10:44 AM
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FCC boss Kevin Martin yesterday denied (http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9885394-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20) a report from Silicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag (http://valleywag.com/361529/fcc-contemplating-do+over-comcast-hearing-at-stanford) that claimed the FCC would be holding a second network neutrality hearing in Stanford. The second hearing was supposedly to be scheduled after the first resulted in controversy over Comcast hiring seat-fillers (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/Did-Comcast-Hire-Public-Standins-For-Neutrality-Hearing-92178) to attend.
Martin also said the agency is not investigating Comcast's hiring of those individuals, who prevented members of the public from attending the hearing in Harvard. The FCC is not denying additional hearings on network neutrality and traffic shaping, but none have yet been announced.
It remains likely that while the FCC won't impose new network neutrality rules, they will give Comcast a wrist slap for not being direct with their customers about upstream P2P throttling. Martin seemed very preoccupied with the notion of transparency at the Harvard meeting.
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FCC boss Kevin Martin yesterday denied (http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9885394-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20) a report from Silicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag (http://valleywag.com/361529/fcc-contemplating-do+over-comcast-hearing-at-stanford) that claimed the FCC would be holding a second network neutrality hearing in Stanford. The second hearing was supposedly to be scheduled after the first resulted in controversy over Comcast hiring seat-fillers (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/Did-Comcast-Hire-Public-Standins-For-Neutrality-Hearing-92178) to attend.
Martin also said the agency is not investigating Comcast's hiring of those individuals, who prevented members of the public from attending the hearing in Harvard. The FCC is not denying additional hearings on network neutrality and traffic shaping, but none have yet been announced.
It remains likely that while the FCC won't impose new network neutrality rules, they will give Comcast a wrist slap for not being direct with their customers about upstream P2P throttling. Martin seemed very preoccupied with the notion of transparency at the Harvard meeting.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-Dismisses-Valleywag-Report-92374)