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House Floor Vote on Network Neutrality Expected Friday

Tom Abate writes in The San Francisco Chronicle:

The debate over network neutrality is heating up as House and Senate lawmakers weigh a variety of proposals that seek to balance the need to preserve the free flow of content over the Internet with the desire to give network builders, especially phone companies, incentives to beef up their wires to the home.

The House is poised for a floor vote Friday on HR5252, a bill that would help phone companies deliver television through their wires to compete with cable.

But Internet firms, led by Google, hope to amend that bill to strengthen so-called net neutrality rules to preserve the first-come, first-served status quo when it comes to delivering content on the Internet.

posted by Fergie @ 6/08/2006 07:40:00 AM