On this Blog I wrote about Congressional action related to Net Neutrality on September 5 and again on November 9, right after the 2006 election. New information is now becoming available about an expected push for the new Congress to resume efforts to reintroduce bills related to preserving Net Neutrality.
A January 2, 2007, article by Ann Broache, CNET News.com explains that Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., plans to reintroduce his bill from last year titled the Network Neutrality Act. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., hopes to reintroduce his Net Neutrality Bill, and Sen. Olympia Snow, R-Maine, and Sen Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., plan to introduce the Internet Freedom Preservation Act.
On December 29, 2006, Marguerite Reardon, CNET News.com wrote that AT&T one of the major corporations that has been lobbying against Net Neutrality, agreed to pledge to abide by a series of antidiscrimination principles supported by Net Neutrality supporters for a two year period. This decision provided the incentive for the Federal Communications Commission to approve the $86 Billion megamerger between AT&T and BellSouth.
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