FCC to look into cellphone bill-shock
Ever received a cellphone bill that was off the charts and not know why? If you live in the US some help may be on the way. The FCC unanimously…
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Proposed bill harms 4G competition and costs extra money to boot
Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virgina plans to introduce a bill which, if passed, would work stifle the already paltry competition in the American wireless industry. The Public Safety Spectrum…
Following iPad 3G breach & Google WiFi snooping, FCC to focus more on security
The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau plans refocus on cybersecurity in the wake of both the iPad 3G email breach as well as Google’s WiFi snooping revelations. The…
Survey: 80% of Americans don't know how fast their home broadband is, FCC wants 10K volunteers to test speeds
A report released by the FCC from a survey of 3,005 adults in the US found that 80% of respondents didn’t know how fast their broadband Internet connection to their…
FCC To Enforce Net Neutrality
According to the Wall Street Journal, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has undertaken new steps to protect internet neutrality, another chapter for the concept in a somewhat tumultuous relationship with the agency. Net neutrality is the…
New Government Position: New Media Director
As was evident on a panel at the Politics Online Conference in Washington DC earlier this week, one of the major Internet focused changes the Obama administration has brought to…
Eight Reasons Why Free US Broadband Should Be Spelled M2Z, Not AT&T
It seems that the FCC is finally on the cusp of approving a comprehensive nationwide free broadband plan. The FCC has long considered nationwide free broadband as a means of…
US Considering Free Broadband Access
The US Federal Communications Commission is reportedly considering a plan to allot part of the wireless spectrum to free broadband connections. In a statement delivered at the Digital Inclusion Summit…
FCC To Release New Broadband Plan On March 17 - 100 Megabits In 2020?
The FCC does not see the lack of broadband access in the United States as a problem, to the contrary “a digital divide is an opportunity divide,” said the FCC…
FCC Announces 100 Mbps Broadband Plans
Remember last week when Google announced plans to launch testbeds with 1 Gbps downstream bandwidth? A lot of us thought that Google didn’t want to be an ISP, but wanted…
FCC Investigating Carriers (And Google) Over Early Termination Fees
The Federal Communication Commission is launching an investigation into the early termination fee (ETF) practice used by the four major US wireless providers. For those who don’t know, a carrier…
ATT Pays Charities To Rail Against Net Neutrality?
Since the FCC’s decision to adopt official Net Neutrality regulations, there have been over 13,000 responses from everyone who decided that they had something to say. Some of the stranger…
