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17 May 2019, 9:18 am by Jon Brodkin
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Witthaya Prasongsin) AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon have all told the Federal Communications Commission that they recently stopped selling their customers' phone location information to other companies. [read post]
26 Jun 2014, 8:04 am by Jon Brodkin
While lawmakers dither, a "voluntary" agreement the carriers signed under pressure from the Federal Communications Commission is paying off for some customers, but not all. [read post]
1 Dec 2017, 8:03 am by Jon Brodkin
The deletion of a net neutrality promise immediately after the Federal Communications Commission started repealing its net neutrality rules is just a "language" change, the company says. [read post]
17 Aug 2010, 1:29 pm
That's not news to the techno-literate, of course, but a new Federal Communications Commission report (PDF) shines a probing flashlight on the issue and makes a sharp conclusion: broadband users get, on average, a mere 50 percent of that "up to" speed they had hoped to achieve. [read post]
23 Apr 2010, 8:22 pm by Doug
Federal Communications Commission could lead to the loss of more than 340,000 jobs in the broadband industry over the next 10 years, with few offsetting Web content jobs, according to a new study funded by a group opposed to the proposed rules. [read post]
26 Feb 2015, 12:20 pm by Jon Brodkin
Verizon is just so mad at the Federal Communications Commission today that a normal press release wouldn't do. [read post]
22 Feb 2012, 11:55 am
The nation's fourth-largest cellular firm has asked the Federal Communications Commission to block a spectrum acquisition by its largest competitor. [read post]
16 Apr 2014, 3:28 pm by Jon Brodkin
Chris Young AT&T is hopping mad that the Federal Communications Commission wants to give smaller carriers a more favorable shot at buying broadcast TV spectrum that will be shifted to the cellular industry. [read post]
3 Apr 2020, 10:12 am by Jon Brodkin
The Federal Communications Commission proposed the fine against TracFone yesterday, saying the prepaid wireless provider obtained FCC Lifeline funding by "enroll[ing] fictitious subscriber accounts. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 2:12 pm
The Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan calls for getting 100Mbps access to at least 100 million US homes by 2020, and universal access at the rate of at minimum 4Mbps actual download speed for all consumers by that same year. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 5:44 am by Sheldon Toplitt
Image by Getty Images via @daylifeThe Fairness Doctrine, implemented by the Federal Communications Commission in 1949, but declared unconstitutional by the agency in 1987, this week was officially expunged from the agency's books, along with 82 other obsolete rules, The Hill blog reports.FCC Chair Julius Genachowski offered good riddance to the policy, saying: "The Fairness Doctrine holds the potential to chill free speech and the free flow of ideas and was… [read post]
8 Apr 2018, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
” Tags: broadcasters, Federal Communications Commission, politics A panic over replicated local TV news is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
5 Jul 2012, 2:50 pm by The Federalist Society
The question in this case was whether the standards for indecency that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) applied to broadcasts by Fox and ABC were unconstitutionally vague. [read post]
28 Nov 2018, 1:01 pm by Jon Brodkin
In May, the US Senate narrowly voted to reverse the Federal Communications Commission's repeal of net neutrality rules. [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 8:04 pm by Doug Isenberg
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission outlined a plan to transform the Universal Service Fund, an $8 billion fund that is paid for by the nation’s telephone customers and used to subsidize basic telephone service in rural areas, into one that will help expand broadband Internet service to 18 million Americans who lack high-speed access. [read post]
15 Sep 2015, 8:12 am by Jon Brodkin
Yurasko The Federal Communications Commission yesterday said it did not violate the First Amendment rights of Internet service providers when it voted to implement net neutrality rules. [read post]
25 Oct 2011, 9:00 am by Eric E. Doster
Federal Election Commission ("Citizens United") reinforced the free speech rights of corporations and labor unions to participate in the political process through independent communications expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate. [read post]
10 Apr 2017, 12:45 pm by Jon Brodkin
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Roberto Machado Noa ) A 2013 proposal to allow cell phone calls during airplane flights will be thrown out by the Federal Communications Commission. [read post]
29 Aug 2018, 10:36 am by Jon Brodkin
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Dimitri Otis) An appeals court has upheld a Federal Communications Commission ruling that broadband markets can be competitive even when there is only one Internet provider. [read post]
28 Apr 2012, 12:57 pm
Google has released the full report of the Federal Communications Commission’s investigation into the company’s collection of "payload data" from millions of business and residential WiFi networks, says the Los Angeles Times. [read post]