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WASHINGTON — FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai claims that the FCC Open Internet Order is part of “President Obama’s plan to regulate the internet.”

WASHINGTON — In a speech on Friday, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai claimed that investment by larger Internet service providers had “flatlined” since the agency passed its Open Internet Order protecting Net Neutrality in February 2015. This is false.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the deceptively named “Small Business Broadband Deployment Act.”

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, a coalition of media-justice, Internet-rights and public-interest groups delivered more than 300,000 comments to the Federal Communications Commission in opposition to Charter Communications’ proposed $80-billion takeover of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission proposed new rules to fulfill its congressional mandate to promote competition in the market for cable boxes and other video-navigation devices.

WASHINGTON — The House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology on Thursday passed legislation introduced by Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois) that aims to limit the Federal Communications Commission’s ability to protect Internet users from abuses by broadband access companies like Comcast.

WASHINGTON — Last Friday, Verizon announced that its sponsored-data and usage cap-exemption program, marketed as FreeBee, would take care of data charges that Verizon customers might otherwise rack up for the carrier’s recently launched online video platform, go90.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission reported that broadband internet-access services are not being deployed to all Americans in a timely and reasonable fashion.

The Free Press Action Fund joined a coalition urging the House Judiciary Committee to change the designation for its upcoming Section 702 hearing from “classified” to “open.” Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is used to acquire communications of Americans and others around the world without a warrant.

LOS ANGELES — A coalition of media-justice, Internet-rights and public-interest groups will testify Tuesday before the California Public Utilities Commission in opposition to Charter Communications’ proposed $67-billion takeover of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks.