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WASHINGTON — According to the Associated Press, the Federal Communications Commission is expected to conclude its investigation on Friday into complaints from Free Press and others that Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, is blocking consumer access to Internet content.

WASHINGTON — Today, Comcast announced a “collaborative agreement” with Vonage, a company that provides voice-over-Internet telephone services.

WASHINGTON — Today, the Federal Communications Commission announced it will hold a public hearing about broadband and the digital future in Pittsburgh on July 21.

WASHINGTON — Yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to address the use of product integration in television.

NEW YORK — Today, an impressive line-up of Internet visionaries, business leaders, legal scholars and public interest advocates launched InternetforEveryone.org, an initiative aimed at connecting all Americans to affordable, high-speed Internet.

NEW YORK — Industry, advocacy, academic and financial leaders will host a press conference tomorrow at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City to announce InternetforEveryone.org — a groundbreaking initiative to make access to a fast, open and affordable Internet a basic right for all Americans.

Consumers are having their Web browsing intercepted and Web sites are having their computer code altered by NebuAd, a company that provides targeted advertising for Internet Service Providers (ISPs), according to a technical investigation by Free Press and Public Knowledge.

WASHINGTON — In legal memoranda filed with the Federal Communications Commission last night, Free Press presented definitive legal support for the federal agency’s authority to protect consumers’ right to an open Internet.

WASHINGTON — Today, the Federal Communications Commission reported to Congress that broadband is being deployed to “all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion.” The report’s conclusions stand in stark contrast to those of numerous recent studies that characterize the U.S. broadband market as a duopoly lacking meaningful competition.

WASHINGTON — Yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission published a “Report and Order” that makes sweeping changes to the way it collects data concerning the deployment and adoption of broadband technologies.