By Juliana Greenwald, National Journal
Saying the issue has been studied long enough, public interest groups Wednesday called on the FCC to proceed with action on network neutrality rules that would bar broadband providers from discriminating against or prioritizing Internet content.
The groups made the call in response to the public notice issued [...]

By Elizabeth Woyke, Forbes
The work of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is never easy, but lately the agency seems to be eliciting more negativity than usual.
The agency’s most recent request for information, issued today (Sept. 1), has irked several public interest groups, including Public Knowledge, Free Press and Media Access Project. [...]

By Sara Jerome, The Hill
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a document on Wednesday spelling out mandates it is considering that would limit how broadband service providers may treat wireless traffic and sell “specialized” services.
The two issues constitute the most contentious areas of the net-neutrality debate. Industry stakeholders have failed to reach an agreement on [...]

Washington, D.C., can get hot and muggy in August, which is why lawmakers leave for most of the month, and many staffers, lobbyists and other industry-types also clear out of town in search of cooler climes.
But there is something odd going on right now in Washington. Representatives of some of the [...]

By David Lieberman, USA Today
Advocates for and against Comcast’s plan to buy NBC Universal weighed in one last time at the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday, the cut-off date for formal filings regarding the deal. Regulators are expected to rule on it by the end of the year.
While many comments haven’t surfaced yet at the [...]

Writers Guild West among organizations against merger
By Paul Harris, Variety
A host of industry orgs, consumer and media watchdog groups weighed in against the Comcast-NBC Universal deal on Thursday, the deadline for filing the last round of comments on the merger with the Federal Communications Commission.
In its filing, the Writers Guild of America West took issue [...]

By Georg Szalai, Reuters
The war of words between Comcast and its critics flared up once more as final responses during the Federal Communications Commission’s comment period for the largest U.S. cable firm’s planned acquisition of NBC Universal were due yesterday.
Critics highlighted potential dangers of what would be the biggest media combination in recent memory. Comcast [...]

By Maggie Shiels, BBC News
An industry body representing some of the biggest names in technology has hosted a closed-door meeting to discuss the future of the open internet.
Public advocacy groups said such back-room dealings were detrimental.
The meeting follows the publication of a controversial plan by Google and Verizon that could allow net providers certain types [...]

By Claire Atkinson, NY Post
What’s neutrality without a war?
That’s the reaction from critics to a hastily arranged conference call by Google and Verizon chiefs yesterday.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Verizon chief Ivan Seidenberg got together to express support for the government’s “net neutrality” plan and proclaim their love of the “public Internet.”
But during the call [...]

By Michael Scherer / Washington, Time
As recently as last week, Google Inc. was generally known as the nation’s largest and most vocal advocate of Net neutrality — the principle that any bit of data online should be allowed [...]