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Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | yesterday
... anyone say, "Pravda?" From the Wall Street Journal : WASHINGTON –The head of the Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday the agency will study whether government should aid struggling news organizations, which are suffering from a collapse in advertising revenues as the internet upends their centuries-old business model. FTC Chairman Jon Liebowitz's comments came during...
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Docuticker (Free subscription) | yesterday
FCC Issues Declaratory Ruling Establishing Timeframes for State and Locality Processing of Applications for Wireless Towers (PDF; 71 KB) Source: Federal Communications Commission In a Declaratory Ruling (”Ruling”) adopted today, the Federal Communications Commission (”FCC”) cleared the way for broadband deployment by establishing timeframes...
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Library Stuff (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
WSJ – “Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said he wants to overhaul a $7 billion federal phone-subsidy program and reallocate more airwaves to wireless carriers as part of a strategy to improve U.S. broadband Internet availability. Mr. Genachowski’s comments Tuesday at a conference here are the latest in an increasingly strong...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said on Tuesday regulators are looking into ways to lower the cost of a program intended to ensure telephone service in high-cost, rural areas.
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Voices (Free subscription) | yesterday
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said he wants to overhaul a $7 billion federal phone-subsidy program and reallocate more airwaves to wireless carriers as part of a strategy to improve U.S. broadband Internet availability.
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Ars Technica (Free subscription) | yesterday
Your garden variety telecom policy issue rarely gets beyond the usual places in Washington, notably Capitol Hill and the main meeting room at the Federal Communications Commission. But a few issues do escape, among them debates about the FCC's broadcast ownership rules, white space devices , and now, net neutrality. New York's City Council and San Francisco's Board of Supervisors...
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Ars Technica (Free subscription) | yesterday
Your garden variety telecom policy issue rarely gets beyond the usual places in Washington, notably Capitol Hill and the main meeting room at the Federal Communications Commission. But a few issues do escape, among them debates about the FCC's broadcast ownership rules, white space devices , and now, net neutrality. New York's City Council and San Francisco's Board of Supervisors...
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LinuxDevices.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
& White space& networking, which will use unused TV spectrum to deliver broadband services, has moved a step closer. Last week, the Federal Communications Commission said it would begin establishing databases that will warn white space devices when existing TV signals are present, according to a story on our sister site eWEEK....
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Tech Beat (Free subscription) | yesterday
New York and San Francisco are mulling resolutions backing Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) efforts to enact tough Internet non-discrimination rules.
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WindowsForDevices.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
& White space& networking, which will use unused TV spectrum to deliver broadband services, has moved a step closer. Last week, the Federal Communications Commission said it would begin establishing databases that will warn white space devices when existing TV signals are present, according to a story on our sister site eWEEK.com....
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Phone Scoop (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Federal Communications Commission recently approved a plan that will allow the agency -- in concert with a private-sector administrator -- to catalog all the nation's available white space spectrum. White space spectrum is the unused spectrum that exists ... (follow link to read)
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St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | yesterday
Reports published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch say that three petitions have been filed with the Federal Communications Commission in an attempt to stop the sale of radio station KFUO (90.7 FM). KFUO is the only radio station in the St. Louis area that broadcasts classical music, and also is home to Don Wolff 's long-running program I Love Jazz , which airs on Friday nights....
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PC Mag (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Federal Communications Commission has begun crafting a database that would identify which TV stations would qualify for protection from broadband devices using forthcoming "white spaces" technology.
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday
... who violated the usage policy that was set up about two years ago. Comcast has fallen under Federal Communications Commission scrutiny because its network management policies discriminated against certain types of traffic, notably non-Comcast VoIP and peer-to-peer traffic. Targeting specific protocols violates the FCC's open Internet principles. These principles are currently...
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Personal Democracy Forum (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sure, he’s the rock star chairman of the powerful Federal Communications Commission, but standing onstage in the Ronald Reagan Building amphitheater this morning, Julius Genechowski looked for all the world like a nervous graduate student auditioning for a professorship. Behind the lectern and under the spotlight, he shuffled from foot to foot and back again. There was even...
