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Secret Lovers: FCC, ISPs Continue Meetings This Week

By james_fudge

The hits keep coming from the FCC and stakeholders, who continue to have back door meetings on net neutrality, according to Politico's Morning Tech Blog. While "mum's the word" on just what's going on in these meetings, a source with insider knowledge of the talks says that two more meetings with agency chiefs are scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday of this week. While there are no details on the progress being made in these meetings, there's got to be some reason that stakeholders continue to meet with the FCC. Could a deal emerge from these talks? We'll see.

Meanwhile, two more Democrats have sent a letter to the FCC urging them to "steer clear of reclassifying broadband." Democrats Alan Grayson and Ben Chandler urged the agency in letters sent late last week to "stand down" and let Congress set policy on Net Neutrality. This follows a bill sponsored by Republicans Fred Upton and Gene Green that would force the FCC to halt its work on the "third way. The bill has 48 sponsors including a lot of Democrats. A similar bill has already been introduced in the Senate. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on August 02, 2010 (boomark / email).