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Univision launches bilingual digital network service

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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USA
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November 2 2012

Spanish language broadcaster Univision extended its reach to smart phone users on Monday with the debut of UVideos, a new digital network service that will provide more than 1,500 hours of long-form programming and 200 short video clips free of charge to users through a downloadable mobile application

OECD report calls for “bright line” between governance models for legacy networks and internet

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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USA
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October 26 2012

A report issued by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development touts the success of the current multi-stakeholder model for governing Internet access and the exchange of traffic across web networks as it calls on regulators worldwide to draw a “bright line” between that model and traditional pricing models for legacy landline networks

McDowell questions impact of net neutrality rules on internet economy

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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USA
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October 26 2012

At an event sponsored by the Free State Foundation, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell questioned recent FCC assertions that the agency’s net neutrality rules have stimulated economic investment, as he pointed to statistics showing that telecom-related capital expenditures remained flat between 2010 and 2011

Groups protest AT&T plan to link use of video chat app to mobile data

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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USA
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August 24 2012

AT&T’s plan to limit on-network usage of Apple’s FaceTime video chat application to purchasers of AT&T’s Mobile Share data plan has provoked the ire of two public interest groups that have assailed AT&T’s policy as a violation of the FCC’s net neutrality rules

Dyle mobile TV service debuts on MetroPCS network

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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USA
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August 18 2012

MetroPCS, the nation’s fifth largest wireless carrier, launched live mobile digital television services earlier this month with the introduction of the first smart phone in the U.S. to receive local broadcasts in conjunction with the Dyle TV initiative

Verizon Wireless pays $1.25 million to settle FCC probe into app blocking

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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USA
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August 3 2012

As part of a consent decree announced on Tuesday, Verizon Wireless has agreed to pay $1.25 million to the U.S. Treasury to terminate an FCC investigation into allegations that Verizon had sought to block access to certain Google mobile applications that permit users to tether devices to the Verizon network free of charge

Lawyers debate applicability of Cablevision decision to Aereo case

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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USA
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June 8 2012

During oral arguments on the broadcast networks’ request for a preliminary injunction to shut down the Aereo web streaming service, a Manhattan federal district court judge questioned the networks on the extent to which the Second Circuit’s 2008 decision in Cartoon Network v. CSC Holdings applies to the case at hand

House lawmakers unite against international web governance model

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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USA
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June 1 2012

Lawmakers of both political parties and witnesses from the government and private sectors found common ground during a House Communications Subcommittee hearing yesterday on Internet governance, as they voiced agreement on the dangers of top-down, government control of the web, as proposed by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU

Net neutrality rules spotlighted at senate oversight hearing

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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USA
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May 18 2012

Republican members of the Senate Commerce Committee questioned “preemptive regulatory strikes” undertaken by the FCCincluding, most notably, the agency’s adoption of net neutrality rules in 2010during an oversight hearing conducted on Wednesday

Genachowski, McDowell caution against central regulatory model for internet governance

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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USA
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March 2 2012

Addressing wireless industry officials at the GSMA World Mobile Congress in Barcelona on Monday, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell urged government leaders worldwide to maintain adherence to a “multistakeholder” model in managing the global Internet as they warned against the establishment of a new international body that would regulate the World Wide Web