Topic - FCC

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General news, Media, Communications, Internet, Finance

Will Tech Stimulus Funding Goose Economy?

The $40 billion for tech is unlikely to create immediate jobs and deliver a quick jolt to the stalled economy, but it could spur long-term business growth.
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FCC Calls Out Comcast on Net Neutrality

With Obama’s nominee set to become the first Democrat to head the FCC in eight years, the agency could finally settle an old score.
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Obama to Name Former VC to Head FCC?

The president-elect is expected to name Julius Genachowski to lead the commission. He inherits a hornet’s nest of problems ranging from patent wars to idle spectrum.
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Group Asks Obama for $30B Tech Stimulus

Lobby says upgrading the digital infrastructure will create far more jobs than fixing the nation’s roads and bridges. But is $30B too much for broadband?
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M2Z Slams White House Broadband Protest

VC-backed startup calls the Bush administration’s 11th hour attempt to scuttle FCC’s free wireless plan more of the failed policies of the White House.
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Computers, General news, Media, Communications, Internet

Verizon Employees Access Obama’s Cell Phone Account

Workers placed on leave while carrier investigates the privacy breach. CEO publicly apologizes to President-elect Obama.
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FCC Approves Verizon Wireless-Alltel

Federal Communications Commission signs off on so-called whites space rules, the Verizon Wireless-Alltel merger, and the tie-up of Sprint’s and Clearwire’s WiMAX businesses.
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General news, Media, Communications, Internet

P2P Traffic to Quadruple

Is legal peer-to-peer traffic a bandwidth hog, an Internet time bomb, or just another misunderstood web business?
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Magazine, Security, Media, Internet

Digital TV Switch Leaves Poor, Minorities Behind

A report published Wednesday by media research firm Nielsen shows that low income household and minorities are less likely to be ready for the February nationwide digital transition.
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Archives, General news, Media, Communications, Internet, Finance

FCC Boosts Free Wireless

Spectrum auction urged by Google, Kleiner-backed M2Z gains as report discounts interference threat.
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Media, Communications, Internet

Comcast Sues FCC

Cable operator says the ruling that it illegally blocked video traffic on its network was “legally inappropriate.”
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Media, Communications, Internet

TechSpin: Parsing the FCC's Comcast Decision

The slap on the wrist for slowing Web traffic exposes the fact that the U.S. federal agency's authority is not clear.
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Security, Media, Communications, Internet

Startup Pushes Free Wireless Broadband for Everyone

After a two-year battle with the FCC and the incumbent mobile carriers, VC-backed M2Z is inviting the public to pressure the FCC to move on free wireless broadband.
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Security, Media, Communications

Deutsche Telekom Scandal Could Spread to U.S.

FCC could act if there are indications that DT’s phone-spying violations stretched to T-Mobile USA, the carrier’s U.S. property.
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Security, Media, Communications

CellCast Challenges FCC on Text Alerts

Firm says SMS will quickly overload the wireless network in times of crisis while text broadcast which is being ignored is the perfect fit.
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Security, Media, Communications, Internet

Feds Aim to Send Emergency Text Messages

In its ongoing attempt to incorporate wireless communications into public safety, the FCC keeps running into obstacles. This time it’s the legal and budgetary constraints at FEMA.
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General news, Media, Communications, Internet

BT Group CEO To Step Down

Ben Verwaayen, who guided BT from a slow-footed monopoly to a global telecommunications player, could be headed to the venture capital world.
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General news, Media, Communications

XM-Sirius Sparks Outcry

Opponents say the merger creates a national monopoly with unfair advantages among car makers, retailers, and suppliers.
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General news, Security, Media, Communications

No Analog TV Left Behind

As U.S. preps for digital TV switchover, government says it will mail 5 million $40 coupons so TVs with rabbit ear antennas will continue to work.
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Media, Communications, Finance

Bidders Ante up (Slowly) in Airwave Auction

It's a slow start for an FCC process that could fundamentally change the mobile market.
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