National Broadband Policy and Net Neutrality

This is a speech given by Michael K. Powell, when he was Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, at the Silicon Flatirons Symposium on "The Digital Broadband Migration: Toward a Regulatory Regime for the Internet Age." University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder, Colorado, February 8, 2004.

A worldwide tussle over Internet access policy is playing out right now, and many countries are closely watching what the United States does. This talk will provide a brief overview of the U.S. regulatory structure for high-speed Internet access.

The Net Neutrality Squad will keep an eye out for ISPs that interfere with the free flow of Internet traffic.

Comcast has been blocking the sharing of certain files on their users network as a means of managing its network to keep file-sharing traffic from swallowing too much bandwidth and affecting the Internet speeds of other subscribers.

Consumers Should Trust the Marketplace, Regulators Purr.

The higher education community weighs in on the side of neutrality during recent congressional hearings on network neutrality.

Learn the basics of today's net neutrality debate that is likely to be an ongoing issue for society.