regulation

Is Government Regulation Needed to Ensure Net Neutrality?

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:47:28 -0800

Wall Street Debacle Holds Lessons for Net Neutrality

Holiday Shapiro — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:29:12 -0700

Yahoo/Google Deal Under Investigation

Holiday Shapiro — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:14:32 -0700

US anti-trust regulators have opened an investigation into Yahoo's search advertising partnership with Google to examine if the $800m (£403m) a year deal restricts competition in the market.

Qwest Wants to Shed Regulations

Holiday Shapiro — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:21:37 -0700

Qwest Communications is seeking to extricate itself from federal regulations designed to increase competition in the telephone industry, saying the rules are no longer needed.

Bill Aimed at Phone Deregulation Passes State Senate Panel

Holiday Shapiro — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:17:14 -0700

A drive to eliminate much of the last vestiges of conventional home telephone regulation by the state won a key endorsement Tuesday from a Senate committee. Under the bill, state regulators would no longer analyze a proposed phone company merger to determine, for instance, if it is in the public interest or if part of the merger's savings should be returned to customers.

Call for Wireless Regulation Gets Louder

Holiday Shapiro — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:29:19 -0700

Raised voices, disputes over money, abrupt hang-ups. Asad Baig has experienced all the hallmarks of a stormy relationship with his cell phone company—actually five different ones over the last four years.

The Wireless Trap

Holiday Shapiro — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:35:39 -0700

Raul Martinez's cellphone plan offered free roaming for calls to anywhere in the United States and Canada. So when the 50-year-old resident of East Hollywood took a two-week vacation north of the border last summer, he assumed he had nothing to worry about.

He didn't read the fine print.