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MovieFlix, Doctors TeleHealth Network, and KinderStart urged the Federal Communications Commission not to regulate the Internet by adopting network neutrality rules. The companies differ from some other content providers who think the government needs to adopt network neutrality regulations. "There is growing evidence that [network neutrality regulation] could slow the deployment of the super-fast local broadband networks that are crucial to continued growth of our industry. Evidence of this risk comes from the cable, cellular, and telephone carriers who have begun to deploy these extraordinarily expensive networks, from Wall Street analysts, from telecom researchers, and from scores of companies that produce the hardware and software products necessary to make broadband networks work. If investment in local broadband networks were to slow as a result of net neutrality regulation, the Internet content industry would be hurt by forcing it to rely on existing and less desirable network technologies."
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BROOMFIELD, Colo., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Level 3 Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: LVLT) today filed a proposal with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) suggesting a possible resolution to the special access regulation proceeding currently pending before the FCC. Level 3's proposed solution would enable the FCC to undertake a comprehensive review of the competitive marketplace and establish new rules to address concerns over current special access services.
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The Commission believes that providing accurate information about important FCC regulations to consumers is a key element to reducing future fraud in the FCC licensing area. If the customers of application mills had understood from the start that FCC licenses alone were not marketable commodities, they would have been less likely to succumb to the telemarketers' pitch about applying for licenses in the first place.(9) Informed consumers ... probably would not have fallen victim to the subsequent telemarketers' pitches about various mechanisms that might be used to save and profit from their licenses. Similarly, if consumers who invested in build-out schemes had been aware of the restrictions on transferring the licenses involved and other FCC regulatory requirements, telemarketers would have found it considerably more difficult to deceive consumers into investing in those schemes. In order to limit the recurrence of these frauds, the Commission recommends providing future consumer applicants with more information about any licenses they seek to acquire, whether through a traditional application process or through an auction.
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In comments delivered to the Federal Communications Commission yesterday, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division warned that imposing Net neutrality regulations could hamper development of the Internet and prevent service providers from upgrading or expanding their networks. “Precluding broadband providers from charging content and application providers directly for faster or more reliable service could shift the entire burden of implementing costly network expansions and improvements onto consumers,” the agency said in its filing. “If the average consumer is unwilling or unable to pay more for broadband Internet access, the result could be to reduce or delay critical network expansion and improvement.”
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