Callahan’s Cleveland Diary

Multichannel News:

The Federal Communications Commission said late last week it plans to vote at its July 13 public meeting to approve the $16.9 billion acquisition of Adelphia Communications by Time Warner Inc. and Comcast Corp., ending a review that has lingered at the agency for nearly 400 days.

Approval is expected to come with several conditions related to sports programming, but the FCC is not planning to impose Internet network-neutrality mandates on either Comcast or Time Warner, according to an FCC official…

… the Adelphia merger would be approved without a commitment from Time Warner and Comcast to abide by the FCC’s August 2005 four broadband principles, also called Internet network-neutrality principles, an FCC official said.

Here are the FCC’s “four broadband principles” that Cleveland’s new cable monopoly apparently won’t have to follow (courtesy of Joho the Blog):

1. Consumers are [not] entitled to access the lawful Internet content of their choice;

2. Consumers are [not] entitled to run applications and services of their choice, subject to the needs of law enforcement;

3. Consumers are [not] entitled to connect their choice of legal devices that do not harm the network;

4. Consumers are [not] entitled to competition among network providers, application and service providers, and content providers.

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