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On July 12, participating websites will attempt to show users what the web would look like if Net Neutrality regulations are reversed.

WASHINGTON — In less than 24 hours, a diverse coalition of Net Neutrality supporters will launch a nationwide “Day of Action” to mobilize people to demonstrate their support for the open-internet protections the Trump administration is trying to overturn.

Activists, companies and organizations are collaborating to push back against the FCC’s vote to begin rolling back the Net Neutrality rules. Those rules, enacted under the Obama administration, block internet service providers from slowing down some sites or charging them extra fees to reach their audiences.

Cox Communications rolled out plans to enforce new data-overage fees.
“It’s really a penalty and not anything related to an actual cost,” says Matt Wood of Free Press, a digital rights advocacy group.

Data from internet service providers themselves show that these firms have moved to offer people faster connections and better choices since the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules were adopted.

Public-interest groups sent a letter to Congress demanding a clean budget free from ideological policy riders. The letter — which includes more than 50 state and local organizations as signatories — was organized by the Clean Budget Coalition, which is calling on Congress and the White House to pass a clean budget that funds and protects thriving families and communities.

The country’s largest internet service providers may have enthusiastically endorsed FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to gut the Net Neutrality rules, but some smaller providers feel differently.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released the results of its investigation into Lifeline, an FCC universal service program that provides a modest subsidy so that poor people can access telephone and internet services.

Breaking ranks with AT&T, four other large internet service providers are asking the 9th Circuit to rule that the Federal Trade Commission has the authority to prosecute AT&T for allegedly duping wireless consumers who purchased “unlimited” data plans.

Cable giants are increasingly pushing aggressively into the wireless industry. In the latest example of that trend, Comcast and Charter are negotiating with Sprint to offer wireless services to their cable and high-speed internet customers.