America Online chairman Steve Case and Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin returned to Capitol Hill Thursday, defending their giant merger of old and new media companies for the second time this week.
Published:
11 March 2000 y., Saturday
But lawmakers on the Senate Commerce Committee_s telecommunications subcommittee focused most of their questions on general Internet policy issues, like privacy, taxation and telephone service
subsidies. On Tuesday, the two executives faced more hostile questioning from the Senate Commerce Committee focusing on the companies_ pledge to share Time Warner_s high-speed Internet-over-
cable service with competing Internet service providers. Some senators on the telecommunications subcommittee expressed similar skepticism, but much of the hearing was spent discussing general
issues. Case said AOL, the No. 1 online service, still favors voluntary industry rules to safeguard the privacy of consumers, but added he would be willing to discuss possible legislative proposals
if Congress determined that new laws were needed.
Copying, publishing, announcing any information from the News.lt portal without written permission of News.lt editorial office is prohibited.
The most popular articles
Both women and men have been hit by job losses in the downturn, says a new report adopted by the European Commission today.
more »
Unemployed car and construction workers in Sweden, Austria, and the Netherlands will get €15.9 million in EU Globalisation Adjustment Fund aid for training, self-employment and professional orientation services under a plan endorsed by Parliament in plenary on Wednesday.
more »
As the economy recovers, EU countries will need to phase out crisis measures. The question is when?
more »
The European Commission has endorsed, under EU state aid rules, a Polish scheme intended to compensate the Polish Post for net losses incurred in discharging its public service obligations between 2006 and 2011.
more »
The European Commission reports good progress in the implementation of the Small Business Act (SBA) in 2009.
more »
The European Commission approved the first financing decisions in favour of eleven African and two Caribbean countries for a total of € 230 million, including € 215 million under the so-called Vulnerability FLEX mechanism (V-FLEX).
more »
Legal measures to make it easier for people who have lost or risk losing their jobs to get credit to start up their own businesses were backed by the European Parliament on Tuesday.
more »
How can companies and industry help to stop climate change? This is one of the questions on the table when Sweden’s Minister for Enterprise and Energy Maud Olofsson attends the climate change conference in Copenhagen on Monday and participates in a panel discussion organised by Businesseurope.
more »
In a meeting held today in Brussels, the Gas Coordination Group, under the chairmanship of the Commission, has discussed with Russian Gas Company Gazprom the gas supply and demand outlook and investment strategy of the company in both Russia and the EU.
more »
The European Commission has approved under EU state aid rules the impaired asset relief measure and the restructuring plan of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).
more »