MAP Statement Regarding Comcast-Time Warner "TV Everywhere" Experiment
Media Access Project Vice President Parul P. Desai issued the following statement in reaction to the announcement that Comcast and Time Warner are going to conduct an “experiment” of the “TV Everywhere” service:
“These new initiatives raise serious legal and policy questions. Putting content behind a paid wall threatens the wide open model which has made the Internet innovative and diverse. Until now, users have been in control, but the “experiment” announced today appears to limit customer choice. The American public must be attentive whenever choice, innovation and diversity are threatened.”
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Media Access Project to Hold July Forum on Broadband Stimulus and National Broadband Plan
On July 17, Media Access Project (MAP) will hold its second forum of the 2009 public policy series, MAPPING CHANGE – Future of Access and Innovation. The event will focus on the specifics of this year’s economic stimulus package as it relates to broadband development in the United States, and on the Congressional mandate to develop a national broadband plan.
Title: Broadband Stimulus and the National Broadband Plan: What They Mean for Communications, Technology, and Innovation
Date/Time: Friday, July 17, 2009, 10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Dickstein Shapiro Conference Center, 1825 Eye Street, NW, Washington, DC
Speakers will include Thomas Kalil of the White House Office of Science and Technology and a panel of state-level organizations, private sector representatives, and other experts in the field.
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Media Access Project Asks FCC To Promote Competition and Consumer Choice in the Wireless Market
Media Access Project (MAP) and other public interest organizations asked the Federal Communications Commission today to recognize the mobile wireless market as anticompetitive and harmful to user choice and innovation.
MAP, Consumers Union, Free Press, Consumer Federation of America, New America Foundation, and Public Knowledge laid out a variety of measures by which wireless providers have leveraged their market power to shut out competition at the expense of consumers and competitor mobile wireless providers. The comments were filed in connection with the Commission’s preparation of its annual report on Commercial Mobile Radio Services.
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Media Access Project Asks FCC To Prioritize First Amendment Values in Developing National Broadband Plan
Media Access Project (MAP) called upon the Federal Communications Commission today to give priority to First Amendment values as it establishes its plan for nationwide broadband development. MAP asked the Commission to take an expansive view about the role of government to promote and enhance the marketplace of ideas through policies including, but not limited to, non-discrimination in network management and interconnection.
MAP’s comments to the Commission noted longstanding Supreme Court precedent emphasizing that the government can and should consider diversity and free expression in its policymaking decisions. “There is a long and unbroken line of authority for government to create a robust platform for civic participation,” said MAP President Andrew Jay Schwartzman.
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U.S. Court of Appeals Upholds FCC's Ability to Protect Low Power FM Radio
In a significant victory for low power FM radio, the U.S. Court of Appeals of the D.C. Circuit today affirmed the December 2007 Federal Communications Commission decision to protect LPFM stations against “encroachment” by full power radio stations.
The Commission’s ruling was challenged by the National Association of Broadcasters. Media Access Project represented Prometheus Radio Project as an intervenor in the case.
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