Internet Policy
High-speed broadband Internet is a necessity for finding jobs, paying bills and getting news and information. Small businesses rely on broadband for growth, and every sector of our economy — from health care and education to energy — needs broadband to succeed. But today more than one-third of Americans still don’t have high-speed Internet at home, and whole regions of the country are not being served by broadband providers.
Free Press works to promote high-speed Internet that is accessible, affordable and open — regardless of technology. We support policies that protect consumers, promote universal access and encourage competition in the broadband marketplace.
Recent Internet Policy Updates
Free Press Action Fund Praises Members of Congress Defending Wireless Innovation
WASHINGTON -- On Thursday, a bipartisan letter from 42 members of the House of Representatives urged congressional leadership to keep prime wireless spectrum available for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other innovative new technologies.
Groups Ask FCC to Require Verizon, SpectrumCo and Cox Communications to Make Agreements Available
WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday, Free Press, the Media Access Project, Public Knowledge and the Greenlining Institute filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission requesting that Verizon, SpectrumCo and Cox Communications make unredacted versions of their joint operating and marketing agreements in their spectrum deals available to parties in the proceeding.
Letter to the FCC Requesting the Agency Make Available Joint Operating and Marketing Agreements Between Verizon and SpectrumCo
On Feb. 7, Free Press, the Media Access Project, Public Knowledge and the Greenlining Institute filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission requesting that Verizon and SpectrumCo make unredacted versions of its joint operating and marketing agreements in its spectrum deal available to parties in the proceeding.
After Outcry, ASU Lifts Blocking of Change.org
On Friday night, Arizona State University (ASU) responded to thousands of complaints from ASU students and Free Press activists and stopped blocking student access to the popular petition website Change.org.
Arizona State University Blocks Popular Online Organizing Site
WASHINGTON -- Arizona State University is reportedly blocking students’ access to Change.org and to messages from the site to ASU email addresses. A popular website that uses petitions to create social change, Change.org is hosting a petition by ASU students to lower tuition rates.
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