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As the main U.S. communications regulator, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) sets policy on telecommunications, broadband, wireless, cable, satellite, and other forms of public communication. This topic covers the latest news coming out of the FCC.

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Analysis: LightSquared in 11th-hour effort to woo Washingtonmore

elecom startup LightSquared is mounting a last-ditch effort to win U.S. regulatory approval for a new wireless network...

AT&T’s Qualcomm Airwaves Deal Wins Approvalmore

AT&T Inc., the largest U.S. phone company, won approval from U.S. regulators for its $1.93 billion purchase of...

Behind AT&T's Epic Lobbying Failuremore

Its influence mattered little as the FCC nixed the T-Mobile merger

FCC deals serious blow to AT&T and T-Mobile dealmore

By Jia Lynn Yang – AT&T, with its powerful army of lobbyists and years of experience navigating Washington, thought...

Is it the End of the Line? AT&T and T-Mobile Drop FCC Applicationsmore

AT&T has withdrawn its FCC application with T-Mobile on Wednesday thanks to the FCCs decision to require AT&;T...

Keep the Wolf from the Door: FCC Attempts to thwart AT&T/ T-Mo...more

“You can’t create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings” (Lisa Simpson). U.S. regulators are going to...

How to Solve the Wireless Spectrum Puzzlemore

"But could the current budget crisis force a one-sided resolution to this puzzling issue? In these tough economic...

FCC to overhaul $4.5B in subsidiesmore

By Kim Hart – The Federal Communications Commission’s plans to revamp a program with nearly $4.5 billion in annual...

FCC Sued Over Net Neutrality Regulationsmore

By Nathan Eddy – The group Free Press filed the lawsuit against the FCC Sept. 28 in the First Circuit Court of Appeals...

Wireless data plans put spotlight on FCC billing protection - Post Tec...more

By Cecilia Kang – As wireless companies introduce new, and sometimes confusing, service plans, expect pressure on the...

Stimulating Economic Growth with Broadbandmore

One of the toughest aspects of promoting new technology deployment and usage is finding meaningful facts to support its...

Double Check Your Phone Billsmore

The Federal Communications Commission drafted new rules to protect consumers from mystery charges on phone and cell...

Cable's New Rules: Channel Carriagemore

channel owners, have rewritten the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 which prohibits...

Revamp Retrans Consent Nonsensemore

rules should stay as they are, or be revamped to consider current economics and market conditions that create opposite...

Comcast To Bloomberg: Let's Talkmore

Comcast issued a pre-filing response to Bloomberg’s Neighborhooding complaint, which was subsequently filed with the...

Round Two of Bloomberg-Comcast Channel Positioningmore

news organizations CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, and others per an FCC Order as a condition of the NBCU merger approval.

FCC report: Net has helped suffocate local newsmore

By Eric Mack – The 460-plus page report, titled “The Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in...

Understanding the Universal Service Fundmore

DSLReports.com – To understand the origins of this tax, you have to go back to the Communications Act of 1934.

Creating Broadcaster-Cable Inequitiesmore

market equity, they actually produced the opposite. That is, they were formed to curb the Cable Industry’s dominance in...

Bloomberg Fires Cannon Across Comcast's Bowmore

Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and NBCU has been finalized and Comcast works to improve NBCU’s bottom-line; Bloomberg has...

AT&Ts T-Mobile Bid May Be Reviewed by California Agencymore

that request. Congress View The purchase needs approval from two U.S. agencies, the Justice Department and the Federal...

Comcast struggles with damage control after an e-mail attacking a nonp...more

OMG! @FCC Commissioner Baker voted 2 approve Comcast/NBC merger & now is lving FCC for A JOB AT COMCAST?!? With...

Broadcasters, distributors debate retransmission consent rules at FCCmore

contested negotiations between broadcasters and distributors including a few that led to channels going off the air.

Press Statement Regarding The FCC?s Declaratory Ruling On Time Warner ...more

Time Warner Cable applauds the FCC���s decision reaffirming that competitive telecommunications carriers have the right...

Press Statement Regarding the FCC���s Declaratory Ruling on Time Warne...more

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