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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.

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.

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.

Fundraisers who raised cash for Clinton’s campaign are helping corporations lobby to overturn Net Neutrality, deregulate finance and build prisons.

TV station powerhouse Sinclair Broadcast Group raised a few eyebrows in April when it hired Boris Epshteyn as its chief political analyst. Epshteyn, after all, was a combative TV surrogate for President Trump during the presidential campaign and briefly was a Trump administration press aide, raising an obvious question: How independent would his political analysis be?

TRENTON — On Monday, advocates rallied in Trenton in support of legislation that would use millions in proceeds from the recent spectrum auction to help fix New Jersey’s local news crisis.

Netflix is now planning to participate in the Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality on July 12, protest organizers said.