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[ NNSquad ] BIG NEWS: Martin Hints that FCC will act against Comcast soon
BIG NEWS: Martin Hints that FCC will act against Comcast soon http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6539635.html Martin: Expect Comcast Broadband Ruling Before July Excerpts: Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin, speaking at Stanford Law School on Friday, said he's hoping the agency rules by June 30 on a complaint filed against Comcast over its broadband management practices. At a Feb. 25 FCC-sanctioned event at Harvard Law School -- where the speakers and panels were heavily skewed against Comcast -- Martin indicated several times that Comcast had violated the agency's August 2005 consumer-centric Internet policy principles. On Friday, Martin said resolution of the Comcast complaint would set "an important precedent going forward." Martin added that "two of the more troubling aspects" of the Comcast matter was that in his view Comcast at first denied the allegations, though he didn't specify the nature of the allegations or the denials. He said he was also troubled by allegations that Comcast altered certain user information in packets to effect a delay in peer-to-peer transmissions. Martin's public pronouncements on the Comcast complaint -- coupled with his multiyear campaign to barrage Comcast and other cable operators with regulations – strongly suggest a negative outcome for Comcast. -- read the remainder of the article, including Martin's comments on the Verizon Wireless issue on the NARAL short-code, at the link above. -- -- Robb Topolski (robb@funchords.com) Hillsboro, Oregon USA http://www.funchords.com/