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A Congressional Foray Into the Net Neutrality Debate

On February 13th, 2008, Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, introduced a bill to promote the principle known as “Net neutrality,” which prevents Internet service providers from playing traffic cop with Web content based on its source, destination, or ownership. Continue Reading »

  Pending Class Action Points to Potential Pitfalls

While not directly involving mobile digital content provides, a class action lawsuit pending in Federal court in Massachusetts has brought into focus a practice that such providers must be aware of and protect themselves against. At issue in Knox and Esparza v. m-Qube, Inc. is “cramming” pursuant to which a cellular subscriber is automatically billed for mobile content services that were not purchased.

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