PK: Net Neutrality Issue Comes Around

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Subject: In the Know -- February 16, 2006
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:21:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Public Knowledge <pk <at> publicknowledge.org>
To: in-the-know <at> publicknowledge.org

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 In the Know -- a bimonthly Public Knowledge update
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February 16, 2006

Contents:

* We Finally Get to Testify -- on Video Franchising
* PK Issues Major Net Neutrality Study
* Senate Panel Takes Up Net Neutrality

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 PK Endorses Net Neutrality Trade for Streamlined Franchises
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The official topic of the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on
Feb. 15 was whether telephone companies should have an easier
path to entering the video business than did cable companies have
had over the years.  Our unofficial topic, however, was network
neutrality.

For decades, cable companies had to negotiate with more than