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April 8, 2010
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Chicago, IL – April 8, 2010 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Google (GOOG), Amazon (AMZN), eBay (EBAY), AT&T (T) and Comcast (CMCSA).
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Here are highlights from Wednesday’s Analyst Blog:
Court Ruling Shakes Net Neutrality
The rationale behind the Net Neutrality rule is that it will prohibit network operators from restricting any legal online content, devices, applications or services that competitive service providers wish to run through the respective carrier’s networks. Operators have been accused of blocking or slowing traffic according to the revenue they generate from online content.
However, the proposed “free and open Internet" rule also offers some flexibility to network carriers to effectively manage their networks by preventing network congestion and blocking spam, viruses and illegal contents. While operators need to publicly disclose the way they manage their networks, they may be allowed to sell premium Internet services to the customers who pay more for their services.
The proposed net neutrality has become a bone of contention between the advocates of the rule and leading US network operators. Web content and application providers such as Google (GOOG), Amazon (AMZN) and eBay (EBAY) have joined a handful of public interest groups to raise their voices against the discrimination by the ISPs and cable companies.
Net neutrality, if enforced, content providers will benefit from the increased data traffic over the Internet enabled by the next-generation wireless broadband technologies.
US wireless and cable network operators such as AT&T (T) and Comcast (CMCSA), however, have been lobbying against Net Neutrality, insisting that increased data traffic of bandwidth-intensive services and applications such as video streaming require them to actively manage their networks.
Operators clamor that the new regulation will discourage investment associated with expansion and upgrade of their networks and would also throttle innovation and competition. Government intervention through the implementation of Net Neutrality poses a significant threat to network service providers.
The federal court ruling represents a major victory for US cable giant Comcast, which has strongly challenged the FCC’s authority to mandate such regulation. The FCC accused Comcast in 2008 for slowing net traffic on its network and preventing subscribers from using file-sharing services (such as BitTorrent) to download large files including movies and music. The regulator asked the cable MSO to stop such practices, which is now being overruled by the court.
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