Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell visited Austin to talk with the Texas Public Policy Foundation and agreed to an interview on net neutrality — whether people who use more internet bandwidth should pay more for the service, like they do now for greater speed — the recent court decision preventing FCC restrictions on “information service” providers like Comcast, and other issues before his agency and the industries it regulates (and unregulated companies that compete with regulated ones).
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FCC’s McDowell: Unleash the Internet
Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell visited Austin to talk with the Texas Public Policy Foundation and agreed to an interview on net neutrality — whether people who use more internet bandwidth should pay more for the service, like they do now for greater speed — the recent court decision preventing FCC restrictions on “information service” providers like Comcast, and other issues before his agency and the industries it regulates (and unregulated companies that compete with regulated ones).
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Net Neutrality Neutralized
FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell on why people who use more bandwith should pay more, what he thinks of the recent court decision preventing restrictions on “information service” providers, and more.
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The Ditch: Tax Our Way Out?
State lawmakers are looking at several options to cover a $10 billion-plus biennial shortfall. One way is to raise more money — but that’s never simple in tax-averse Texas. Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune filed this second part of his week-long series on the budget.
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FCC’s McDowell: What Consumers Want
Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell visited Austin to talk with the Texas Public Policy Foundation and agreed to an interview on net neutrality — whether people who use more internet bandwidth should pay more for the service, like they do now for greater speed — the recent court decision preventing FCC restrictions on “information service” providers like Comcast, and other issues before his agency and the industries it regulates (and unregulated companies that compete with regulated ones).
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FCC’s McDowell: What Congress Might Do
Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell visited Austin to talk with the Texas Public Policy Foundation and agreed to an interview on net neutrality — whether people who use more internet bandwidth should pay more for the service, like they do now for greater speed — the recent court decision preventing FCC restrictions on “information service” providers like Comcast, and other issues before his agency and the industries it regulates (and unregulated companies that compete with regulated ones).
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2010: The Apostate’s Mouthpiece
Mark Sanders, the long-black-coat-from-The-Matrix-clad spokesperson for Republican-turned-independent Carole Keeton Strayhorn in her 2006 gubernatorial campaign, is throwing his weight and help behind another apostate Republican, according to Peggy Fikac of the Express-News. But not in Texas.
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TribBlog: Perry Finishes 23rd
The #71 “Texans for Rick Perry” car driven by NASCAR racer Bobby Labonte finally had its day on the track in this afternoon’s Samsung Mobile 500 at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth.
