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New York City Council Considers Net Neutrality Resolution

By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 4/30/2007 11:52:00 AM

The New York City Council is scheduled to vote Monday on a resolution backing network neutrality.

Randolph May, head of the Potomac, Md.-based free market think tank The Free State Foundation, was scheduled to testify against the resolution, which would encourage the Congress to codify strong net neutrality principles.

from: Washington Post

NY Attorney General Cuomo slams Verizon service

Reuters
Tuesday, April 17, 2007; 4:02 PM

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo criticized telecommunications company Verizon Communications (VZ.N) on Tuesday for "chronically poor" telephone repair service in the state.

from: Metroland

High-Speed Debate

Telecommunications bill aims to reshape the industry, and draws fire from community media organizations and major corporations

“It is the consumer-protection pack age that we need in New York,” said state Assemblyman Richard Brodsky (D-Westchester) of Assembly Bill 3980. Brodsky is the bill’s sponsor. “It lowers rates, it enhances public access, it deals with universal and affordable service. It preserves what’s called net neutrality.”

from: MPN Now.com

Cable change: less control, less revenue?

By COLLEEN M. FARRELL
Messenger Post Staff
Posted: Apr 4, 01:00 PM EDT

A bill in the state Assembly could increase cable competition.

Before the Internet, there was public access.

Those channels, provided through cable companies, have been used by governments and communities to broadcast everything from town meetings to school events and parades.

from: Lockport Union-Sun & Journal

City, towns oppose state control of cable companies

By Tasha Kates/katest@gnnewspaper.com

Town boards in the Town of Lockport and Pendleton approved resolutions Tuesday night opposing two state bills that would take cable out of the municipalities’ hands.

from: Communications Daily

NY State Video Franchise Bill Hearing
Monday, March 26, 2007

Opponents of video franchise reform in N.Y. told an Assembly committee that the bill to shift franchising from municipalities to the PSC would impose unreasonable buildout requirements on new entrants, weaken municipalities’ powers to protect their citizens and hold video franchises hostage to compliance with network neutrality regulations.

from: The Buffalo News

BUFFALO’S BUSINESS
Powers jostle over Verizon TV service
David Robinson
Updated: 03/25/07 8:25 AM

Last spring, Verizon started laying the fiber-optic cables to homes in Hamburg, Orchard Park and West Seneca that not only can carry faster Internet traffic but also cable television.

from: Staten Island Live

N.Y. lawmakers considering cable competition bill

3/21/2007, 4:18 p.m. EDT
By MARK JOHNSON
The Associated Press

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Increased cable television competition could be coming to New York state as lawmakers seek to lower consumers' bills.

from: Poughkeepsie Journal

Plan for statewide cable franchise sparks opposition

By Jay Gallagher
Journal Albany bureau
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

ALBANY — A proposal to allow companies offering fiber-optic video compete more effectively against cable television for subscribers ran into opposition Wednesday from both cable-TV officials as well as from Verizon, which is building a fiber-based network in select communities.

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