On Monday, Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski announced changes that would modernize the agency’s Lifeline program to give greater broadband Internet access to low-income Americans.
The resolution to disapprove the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules was defeated in the U.S. Senate today.
While some consumer groups are shaking their heads at yesterday’s Federal Communications Commission decision to encourage but not force wireless companies to be more forthright with extra usage fees, the senator who tried to reign in the industry isn’t crying defeat.
An e-mail from Sen. Tom Udall’s More…
Before Congress has a chance to vote on a Republican-backed bill to repeal the Federal Communication Commission’s Internet-access regulations passed in December, a grassroots effort is in motion to uphold the FCC’s rule to enforce net neutrality, essentially preventing network service providers from blocking access to certain legal websites. More…
The Comcast’s acquisition of a controlling stack in NBC Universal, approved on Tuesday by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), included a stipulation for Comcast to increase broadband access to low-income households.
The Federal Communicatons Commission on Tuesday approved Comcast’s bid to take a 51 percent stake in NBC Universal. The deal was approved with a series of stipulations that aim to prevent the telecoms behemoth from squashing all competition and ultimately negatively impacting the American public — but the deal nonetheless More…
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) penned an editorial for the Huffington Post Monday that urges the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to create rules regulating net neutrality from internet providers. The FCC is set to issue new proposed guidelines during a meeting Tuesday and early word is that the policy More…
While Comcast awaits a final decision from the FCC on its acquisition of NBC Universal, it was also busy in court arguing that the FCC’s ban on withholding programs from its cable competitors should be thrown out. The courts disagreed.
Cablevision Systems Corp. and Comcast Corp. had challenged
Via Rick Klein, here’s a combative address by Federal Communications Commission diversity officer Mark Lloyd, a frequent target of Glenn Beck and the Tea Party movement for a handful of controversial statements he’s made.
I am not a Czar appointed by President Obama. I am not at the FCC
Have you ever lived somewhere with really lousy cell phone service?
If so, you’ve probably wondered if there was anything you could do about it. As it turns out, there is — as long as you happen to be married to a powerful senator who sits on the the Senate More…
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