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26 Oct 2004, 12:10 pm
[JURIST] The Federal Communications Commission Tuesday approved the proposed merger of Cingular and AT&T Wireless, only a day after the acquisition was OK'd by the Department of Justice (see this Paper Chase report). [read post]
25 Jun 2017, 7:15 pm
On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission proposed a $120 million fine against Adrian Abramovich of Florida, alleging the Miami man’s high-volume, illegal robocalls disrupted medical services and instigated fraud against countless Americans. [read post]
7 Nov 2015, 3:00 am
Even though the baseball season is over, the Orioles got another win over the Nationals this week while the Federal Communications Commission decided to play hardball with a Virginia-based Wi-Fi provider for allegedly blocking personal Wi-Fi hotspots at the Baltimore Convention Center. [read post]
2 Jun 2022, 9:00 am
Source: NAAG Press Release The National Association of Attorneys General (“NAAG”) sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) on behalf of 41 states’ attorneys general commending the FCC for its leadership in combatting robocalls and sharing their commitment to working collaboratively with the FCC via information-sharing agreements. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 8:16 pm
Federal Communications Commission. [read post]
13 May 2019, 9:15 am
House of Representatives with Federal Communications Commission oversight, as well as wind and solar innovation efforts. [read post]
17 May 2018, 10:31 am
The US Senate [official website] approved a resolution [S J Res 52] on Wednesday that rejects the Federal Communication Commission's "Restoring Internet Freedom" [text] ruling that dismantled net neutrality. [read post]
5 Sep 2014, 11:23 am
As reported in the Privacy & Information Security Law blog, the Federal Communications Commission announced that Verizon has agreed to pay $7.4 million to settle an FCC Enforcement Bureau investigation into Verizon’s use of personal information for marketing. [read post]
21 Dec 2006, 10:33 am
[JURIST] The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [official website] on Wednesday approved new rules [press release, PDF] to prevent local governments from blocking the entrance of companies in the cable television market, highlighting a sharp partisan divide in the five-person panel. [read post]
23 Feb 2018, 12:37 pm
Twenty-three state attorneys general, led by New York's Eric Schneiderman [official profile], filed [text, PDF] a petition for review in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday challenging the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) reversal of Obama administration net neutrality regulations. [read post]
17 Jun 2007, 11:01 am
In comments filed Friday with the Federal Communications Commission, CDT reiterated the importance of preserving an open Internet with no "gatekeepers" and offered its views on which among a variety of potential practices by ISPs could undermine that openness. [read post]
6 May 2010, 5:56 pm
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission described his push to regulate broadband service providers as a middle ground between two difficult choices, each of which is made possible by a court decision that weakened the agency’s ability to oversee companies that provide access to the Web. [read post]
15 Jun 2017, 4:56 pm
Democratic Senators are urging Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai to curb the practice of telemarketers using straight-to-voicemail technology to bypass consumers’ ringtones. [read post]
6 Feb 2018, 9:01 am
The order is in response to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) repeal [JURIST Report] of net neutrality principles. [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 7:12 pm
Federal Communications Commission will likely approve a compromise network neutrality proposal from its current chairman later this month with the support of many large broadband providers, said Michael Powell, former chairman of the agency. [read post]
2 May 2017, 12:23 pm
This means that the rules put in place by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [official website] under former President Obama will remain in place for the time being. [read post]
2 Dec 2021, 1:15 pm
On November 30, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) wrote a letter addressed to President Joe Biden asking Biden to withdraw the nomination of Gigi Sohn, a co-founder of the open Internet advocacy group Public Knowledge, to serve as a commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). [read post]
22 Jul 2008, 4:04 pm
[JURIST] Executives from several Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and broadband internet service providers urged the US House of Representatives [PDF witness list] on Tuesday to pass HR 3914 [draft materials], a bill that would make it harder for companies to avoid Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [official website] anti-competitive practice rules. [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 8:25 am
The head of the Federal Communications Commission and other senior officials said that they were considering taking steps to discourage cable and telephone companies from discriminating against content providers as the broadband companies go about managing heavy Internet traffic that they say is clogging their networks. [read post]
30 Nov 2020, 2:08 pm
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, a Republican, says he is leaving the telecommunications regulator on Inauguration Day. [read post]
