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An Open Letter to Comcast
Dear Comcast: I was checking for telecommunications news over at Ars Technica this morning, as I do every day, when I saw the article “Comcast allegedly trying to block CenturyLink from entering its...
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Introducing Our New Cohort of Changemakers!
Introducing our New Fellowship Cohorts! August is one of the busiest months for The Greenlining Academy. Not only did we just wrap up the summer with our annual Academy Graduation (see pictures on our...
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Reply Comments to the FCC on Net Neutrality
The Greenlining Institute urged the Federal Communications Commission to reject proposals from telecommunications providers who had suggested that the FCC issue watered-down (or no) rules regarding net...
View ArticleGreenlining Tells FCC: Don’t Force Low-Income Consumers to the “Back of the...
Advocates Urge Regulators to Reject Watered-Down Industry Proposals Contact: Bruce Mirken, Greenlining Institute Media Relations Director, 510-926-4022; 415-846-7758 (cell) WASHINGTON – The Greenlining...
View ArticleRiding the Back of the Digital Bus
The Huffington Post by Preeti Vissa Major telecommunications firms (think Comcast, Verizon, AT&T and the like) want to be able to send you to an Internet slow lane if you don’t have enough money...
View ArticleWhy Oakland Needs Net Neutrality
Oakland Local by Paul Goodman More and more, Oakland is bursting with lively, creative local businesses and artists, and the Federal Communications Commission is weighing issues that could either...
View ArticleGoogle Changes Net Neutrality Tune in Fiber Spat
E-commerce Times by Richard Adhikari Google has riled Net neutrality proponents by prohibiting servers on its Google Fiber network. In response to the FCC’s order to explain itself, Google unblushingly...
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How the CPUC’s Supplier Diversity Program will Benefit LGBT Businesses—and...
If you take a look at my past blog posts, you’ll see that I spend a great deal of time writing about Greenlining’s work on mergers, and universal service, and the future of telecommunications. Those...
View ArticleComcast : Greenlining Tells FCC: Don’t Force Low-Income Consumers to the...
4-Traders The Greenlining Institute recently filed its formal reply urging the Federal Communications Commission to reject proposals from telecommunications providers suggesting that, the FCC issue...
View ArticleFCC Freezes Clock on Merger Reviews of Comcast/TWC, AT&T/DirecTV
Electronista The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has stopped its “180-day informal time clock” in the review of the merger proposals for Comcast and Time Warner Cable, as well as AT&T and...
View ArticleRain or Shine: Bay Area Internet Users Take the Net Neutrality Fight to City...
Electronic Frontier Foundation by April Glaser “We want information to flow like water,” protesters yelled outside San Francisco City Hall in the pouring rain, rallying in support of keeping the...
View ArticleGreenlining/TURN Reply Brief in CPUC Proceeding Regarding Comcast’s Release...
Today The Greenlining Institute and The Utility Reform Network filed a reply brief in the Comcast Unlisted Numbers proceeding. The brief argues that (1) Comcast’s failure to prevent or detect the...
View ArticleNew Coalition Fights Comcast Takeover
Crain’s New York Business by Matthew Flamm If Comcast has done nothing else in its pursuit of Time Warner Cable, it has brought left and right together. Against it. A coalition launched Wednesday aims...
View Article‘Stop Mega Comcast’ Coalition Aims to Block Time Warner Cable Merger
Variety by Cynthia Littleton A clutch of public interest groups, unions and media companies including Dish Network and Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze have formed the “Stop Mega Comcast” coalition to advocate...
View ArticleComcast Publicly Doubts Its Own Claim that Merger Won’t Reduce Competition
Ars Technica by Jon Brodkin Comcast has consistently argued that its proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable won’t reduce competition because the two companies do not compete in any city or town in...
View ArticleFCC Restarts Comcast-Time Warner Review Clock
CIO Today by Shirley Siluk The pleading cycle clock is once again ticking at the Federal Communications Commission regarding its review of a proposed $45 billion merger between Comcast and Time Warner...
View ArticleGroups Call on PUC to Fine Comcast for Disclosing Unlisted Numbers
TR’s State Newswire The Utility Reform Network and Greenlining Institute said that the Public Utilities Commission should impose the highest fine allowed by state statute on Comcast Phone of California...
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Reply brief from Greenlining and Consumers Union opposing Comcast/Time Warner...
Brief filed jointly by The Greenlining Institute and Consumers Union at the California Public Utilities Commission arguing that the Commission should deny the proposed merger between Comcast and Time...
View ArticleConsumer Groups Ask PUC to Deny Comcast, Time Warner Merger
Los Angeles Times by Marc Lifsher A coalition of California consumer groups fighting a huge nationwide cable TV merger is asking state telecommunications regulators to oppose it. The groups filed legal...
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Apparently, Everyone’s Entitled to Comcast and Verizon’s Opinion
Before I get started: the incredibly awesome Environmental Equity team here at Greenlining just launched this ultracool campaign called UpliftCA. Go check it out. Sometimes corporate interests make...
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