Consumer groups push for ‘Net neutrality rules

Three consumer groups repeated their calls for a U.S. law to prevent broadband providers from blocking or slowing customer access to some Internet content by saying the public wants government protection. Without strong consumer protections, the openly accessible Internet is in danger with few broadband provider options available to most people, the consumer groups said. Consumer groups push for ‘Net neutrality rules

Three consumer groups repeated their calls for a U.S. law to prevent broadband providers from blocking or slowing customer access to some Internet content by saying the public wants government protection. Without strong consumer protections, the openly accessible Internet is in danger with few broadband provider options available to most people, the consumer groups said.

Consumer groups push for ‘Net neutrality rules

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Nortel has named another former Motorola and third former GE executive to its upper ranks. The company announced that it has hired Dennis Carey as executive vice president of corporate operations. Carey had most recently served as executive vice president and CEO of Motorola’s Integrated Electronic Systems Group. Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski also worked at Motorola and GE, and newly appointed manufacturing services VP Don McKenna was a 40-year veteran of GE. In his new job, Carey will be in charge of a number of departments having to do with Nortel’s corporate operations, including human resources and information services.

Nortel appoints ex-Motorola exec as operations chief

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Cisco released yet another bulletin warning of a problem in the vendor’s IOS routing software. The bug could result in a remotely executed DoS attack on Cisco gear. The problem is with the Cisco IOS Stack Group Bidding Protocol, which is used on routers that aggregate multiple Point-to-Point Protocol connections.

Cisco product flaws affect VoIP gear, routers