FCC Slates Net Neutrality Hearing

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WASHINGTON The Federal Communications Commission is getting serious about the thorny problem of network neutrality as it scheduled a public hearing on the issue in Boston this month.

The hearing comes in response to a pair of petitions filed at the commission by the public-interest group SavetheInternet.com Coalition and Vuze Inc. — a company that distributes video using BitTorrent file-sharing technology. The “network management” petitions neatly bracket the decisions the commission will have to make about just what network neutrality means and how the government applies the principle.

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