Daily RoadMAP was not intended to be just another platform for Media Access Project’s press releases, but we’re making an exception today. Yesterday’s FCC vote to consider adopting network neutrality rules was very important. MAP wants to insure that one aspect of Network Neutrality – its impact on democratic discourse is not forgotten [...]

By Tom LoBianco, Washington Times
The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously Thursday to move toward new rules to prevent corporate Internet providers from charging online powers such as Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. extra for the large amount of infrastructure and bandwidth they use in delivering their services.
While technical, the issue of network neutrality – or [...]

By Grant Gross, PC World
U.S. Senator John McCain has introduced legislation that would block the U.S. Federal Communications Commission from creating new net neutrality rules, on the same day that the FCC took the first step toward doing so.
McCain on Thursday introduced the Internet Freedom Act, which would keep the FCC from enacting rules prohibiting [...]

Andrew Jay Schwartzman, President and CEO of the Media Access Project, issued the following statement after today’s Federal Communications Commission vote to initiate a proceeding which would insure neutrality on broadband networks:
“This is a down payment on creating a digital democracy. Today’s vote to begin the process of requiring non-discrimination insures, among other things, [...]

There are innumerable symposia and articles these days about the future of journalism, but the new report from Columbia Journalism School bears special attention. In addition to advocating exploration of the “L3C” (low profit limited liability corporation) model to promote altruistic investment in media properties, its authors make a thoughtful case for public support [...]

By Todd Shields, Bloomberg News
Google Inc. backs “extreme regulatory standards,” AT&T Inc.’s top Washington official says. His rival at Google calls the phone company’s campaign against new Internet rules “almost laughable.”
Google’s Richard Whitt and AT&T’s Jim Cicconi are jousting publicly and behind the scenes before the Federal Communications Commission takes its first vote tomorrow on [...]

NPR has produced extremely thought-proviking guidelines for its staff’s use of social media. Reading them raises numerous fascinating and not easily answered questions about the gray areas between the personal and the professional. Ethical reporters cannot impersonate others or hide their identities; does that mean no user names? Can a reporter use [...]

This is a must read: an exhaustively researched report from The Economist on the stunning impact of wireless technologies in lesser developed countries.

A SPECIAL REPORT ON TELECOMS IN EMERGING MARKETS – MOBILE MARVELS
In the grand scheme of telecoms history, mobile phones have made a bigger difference to the lives [...]

By Alex Chasick, The Consumerist
In August, we wrote about upcoming investigations and possible actions by the FCC on several different areas of the consumer telecommunications experience. Several consumer groups filed comments on the first issue, truth in billing, this week, and we wanted to share some of their concerns and suggestions.
Consumers Union, along with the [...]

Eli Noam of Columbia University has often been ahead of the curve. Here, he discusses how information technology has outstripped traditional macroeconomic tools and suggests a dramatic revision in economic analysis.

Goodbye, Macroeconomics
We are in the midst of a severe economic crisis, the second in about a [...]