Copps Responds to Senators, Orders Handset Agreement Probe
WASHINGTON, Thursday June 18, 2009 – After a frenetic burst of activity on and off Capitol Hill, Acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps (D) announced on Thursday an investigation into whether consumers are...
View ArticleSen. Hutchison Seeks to Block Open Internet Regulation
WASHINGTON, December 20, 2010 -Texas Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison has introduced an amendment to block the Federal Communications Commission from implementing any open internet regulations. The...
View ArticleInternet Protocol Transition a Critical Step To Ensuring Public Safety, Say...
WASHINGTON, June 11, 2014 – Even the quickest and best-designed networks can succumb to Mother Nature when a hurricane or tornado strikes a community. And when thousands of people dial 911 at the same...
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An Open Letter to Donald Trump From Adrianne Furniss of Benton Foundation...
EVANSTON, Illinois, January 30, 2017 – Benton Foundation CEO Adrianne Furniss on Monday sent the following letter to to President Donald Trump and leaders both in Congress and at the Federal...
View ArticleWith Senators and Representatives Targeting Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg Likely...
WASHINGTON, March 23, 2018 – The odds that Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will make an appearance on Capitol Hill to explain his company’s actions regarding the misuse of millions of...
View ArticleCongress Considers Plans to Improve Mapping, AT&T Launches 5G Phone
After wide bipartisan acknowledgement that broadband map currently being used by the Federal Communications Commission is wildly inaccurate, Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., has introduced the Broadband...
View ArticleMultiple Pieces of Broadband Legislation Moving Forward in Congress, on Data,...
WASHINGTON, June 19, 2019 – At least a half-dozen separate pieces of broadband legislation are working their way through Congress, and panelists assembled by the Schools, Health, and Libraries...
View ArticleBroadband DATA Act Clears Senate Committee and Dish Network Purchases $5...
The Senate Commerce Committee unanimously passed the Broadband Deployment Accuracy and Technological Availability Act on Wednesday, Broadcasting and Cable reports. The bill was introduced in June by...
View ArticleDrew Clark: Broadband Maps Are a Mess, So Now Let’s Focus on Actually...
The Founder of Broadband Census and Breakfast Breakfast, and the former executive director of the Partnership for a Connected Illinois - one of the State Broadband Initiatives that actually created the...
View ArticleBroadband Roundup: Two Separate State Antitrust investigations of Google and...
Two separate bi-partisan groups of state attorneys general on Friday confirmed that they are launching antitrust investigations into tech giant companies Google and Facebook. New York Attorney General...
View ArticleFCC Chairman Ajit Pai Praises Agency’s Work in Promoting High-Speed Internet...
WASHINGTON, October 24, 2019 – US Telecom on Thursday praised legislators and a regulator who have promoted their framework for ensuring that high-speed broadband remains a top national policy concern....
View ArticleFCC Chairman Ajit Pai Announces Public Auction of C-Band, Connecticut Peels...
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced Monday that the FCC will hold a public auction of mid-band wireless spectrum to fuel the deployment of 5G. The agency plans to auction 280...
View ArticleIn Law More Than a Year, MOBILE Now Advocates Say Act Requires Further...
WASHINGTON, December 6, 2019 – Even though the so-called MOBILE NOW law has been effect since March 2018, former Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., highlighted ongoing...
View ArticleAt State of the Net Event, Government Officials Stress Importance of 5G Win...
WASHINGTON, January 28, 2020 – Winning the race for the 5G wireless standard will help in the preservation of democracy, legislators said, while also promoting privacy legislation on Tuesday at the...
View ArticleIndustry Groups Praise New Broadband DATA Act, Pai and Kennedy Lock Horns on...
Various internet trade groups praised the Senate’s passage of the Broadband Deployment Accuracy and Technological Availability (DATA) Act on Tuesday. The bill was introduced by Chairman of the Senate...
View ArticleCoronavirus Roundup: Broadband’s Importance Burnished During Pandemic, Ajit...
Lawmakers commented on the need of broadband during the coronavirus outbreak according to an article by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. The Journal also highlighted the uses for broadband during...
View ArticleSenate Committee Simultaneously Praises Broadband Providers and Scorns...
May 13, 2020 — “Among the 10 largest countries in world, the U.S. is the only nation that reported no substantial degradation last month in terms of speed,” said US Telecom CEO Jonathan Spalter at a...
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Public Knowledge’s Internet Superfund is a Vaccine Against Toxic...
June 4, 2020 — In a video that quickly went viral, discredited medical researcher Judy Mikovits claimed that the novel coronavirus was intentionally unleashed upon the world by Bill Gates’ elite cabal...
View ArticleCommissioner O’Rielly Says He Would Shorten Rural Broadband Build Out Period...
June 17, 2020 — Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., used a nominations hearing on Tuesday to grill Federal Communications Commissioner Michael O’Rielly on issues ranging from the...
View ArticleBroadband Roundup: GOP Broadband Framework, Reassessing Eligible...
June 22, 2020 — House and Senate Republican leaders released principles to guide legislation aiming to close the digital divide in the age of COVID-19 on Thursday. The connectivity initiative was led...
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