Press Releases

WASHINGTON -- Today, the House passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, legislation that places important speed and openness conditions on new broadband networks to be built with billions in public dollars.

WASHINGTON -- Cox Communications, the nation's third-largest cable company, today announced that in February it will begin testing new network management practices that degrade traffic the company deems not "time sensitive."

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama today designated Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps as acting chair of the agency.

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission is investigating concerns that Comcast's new network management practices degrade the sound quality of competing voice services but leave the company's own Digital Voice service unaffected.

WASHINGTON -- Free Press is calling on Congress to attach public service conditions and accountability to the broadband stimulus funds allocated in the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of 2009," previewed in a release from the House Appropriations Committee.

WASHINGTON -- According to news reports, President-elect Barack Obama will appoint Julius Genachowski as chair of the Federal Communications Commission.

WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday delivered his first major speech on our national recovery, pledging to "put the American Dream within reach of the American people." A major component of this plan, according to Obama, is "expanding broadband lines across America" to give everyone the chance to get online.

WASHINGTON -- Today, an alliance of more than 100 groups, unions, musicians, bloggers and media and technology leaders sent a letter to President-elect Barack Obama calling on his administration to appoint leaders who will reform the media and protect the open Internet.

WASHINGTON -- Today, Free Press released <em><a href="http://www.freepress.net/files/DownPayment_DigitalFuture.pdf">Down Payment on Our Digital Future: Stimulus Policies for the 21st-Century Economy</em></a>, a comprehensive set of proposals that would deploy a forward-looking national broadband infrastructure.

WASHINGTON -- Today, the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> reported that Internet giant Google intends to abandon Net Neutrality and create a fast lane for its own content.