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- Outrage: Verizon Wireless wants to sell your personally identifiable data: here's how you can stop this
- Â Last week, it was revealed that Verizon Wireless is mailing a notice advising wireless subscribers that if they fail to Opt Out within 30 days, Verizon will begin SELLING their Customer Proprietary Network Information CPNI to "third parties and affiliates". CPNI information includes...
- Tags: FCC Commissioner, FCC, Chairman, Verizon Communications Inc., Network Instruments, Verizon Wireless, Customer Proprietary Network Information Information, Federal Government, E-mail, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Government, Online Communications, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
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- FCC takes first step toward National Broadband plan
- The Federal Communications Commission said today that it has taken the first step toward developing a National Broadband plan to ensure that all Americans have access to high-speed Internet connections. A CNET report notes, however, that the process could get bogged down by special interest groups who...
- Tags: FCC, Broadband, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Federal Government, Networking, Government, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- Martin drops porn filtering from broadband proposal
- FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin has dropped plans for porn filtering from his proposal for free broadband Internet, the chairman told Ars Technica writer Matthew Lasar. "I'm saying if this is a problem for people, let's take it away," Martin said. "A lot of public interest advocates...
- Tags: Commission, Broadband, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Sales Force Management, Networking, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-12-30
- Who will lead Obama-era FCC?
- Monday morning may continue the speculation that Hillary Clinton will be named Secretary of State, but in more technical climes the wagers are on what will happen with the Federal Communications Commission. Ars Technica talked to telecom attorney Andrew Lipman, who expects Obama to move fast. Why? The issues the...
- Tags: FCC, Job, Broadband, Federal Government, Telecommunications, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Also on Nov. 4, FCC passes White Spaces
- Little reported amid the torrent of news and analysis on easily the most significant election since Ronald Reagan in 1980 (and given the economic crisis, perhaps the most significant since FDR in 1932), the FCC Tuesday voted in favor of White Spaces, delighting the tech industry and those in favor...
- Tags: FCC, Microphone, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- FCC's Comcast ruling: Not unreasonable
- Andrew Orlovsky delivers a scathing attack on the FCC decision against Comcast. Orlovsky's sources tell him the FCC's statement PDF was drafted and then redrafted after the vote, resulting in a self-contradictory document. But the evidence Orlovsky quotes for this alleged schizophrenia is contained not in...
- Tags: FCC, Commission, Comcast Corp., P2P, Andrew Orlovsky, Orlovsky, Martin, Orvolsky, Federal Government, Networking, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- FCC slaps Comcast's wrist over network neutrality; Sets precedent
- The Federal Communications Commission on Friday ruled 3-2 that Comcast overstepped its network management authority by blocking BitTorrent peer to peer traffic, but stopped short of fining the cable company. The move clarifies the boundaries a bit for other carriers and sends the message that the FCC enforces network neutrality...
- Tags: FCC, Network, Comcast Corp., Network Neutrality, Network Neutrality Rule, Deborah Taylor Tate, Federal Government, Networking, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Network Neutrality & Google's Openness Before The FCC
- Google clearly wants the FCC to make sure that other private companies’ networks are open equally to all Internet services. Now, it will be interesting to see if that applies to networks in which Google is involved. On Friday, the Commission takes up the question of whether...
- Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Network, Comcast Corp., Clearwire Corp., Network Neutrality, Internet, Federal Government, Networking, Government, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Can XM-Sirius merger stand up to Washington politics?
- After well over a year of scrutiny, the proposed merger between the country's two satellite radio providers - XM and Sirius - is finally on the home stretch, set for an approval vote as early as Aug. 1. But wait. This week, one of the FCC commissioners proposed even more...
- Tags: Merger, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Satellite, Sirius, Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, Satellite Radio, Advertising & Promotion, Mergers & Acquisitions, Digital Music, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Dishing It Out
- There may soon be just one satellite radio company. Now, the stars seem to be aligning for there to be just one satellite TV company, as well. First, in radio. The FCC is close to making a decision that will let Sirius Satellite Radio Inc acquire arch-rival...
- Tags: AT&T Corp., DirecTV, Satellite, Satellite Television, Liberty Media Corp., John Malone, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Satellite TV, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Risking Another Frontline Disaster
- The Wall Street Journal says in an editorial that FCC chair Kevin Martin is about to screw things up again on the public wireless Internet front. The first time around Martin tried to rig the D block auction to hand 700MHz spectrum over to Frontline Wireless, formed by former commissioner...
- Tags: FCC, Auction, Journal, M2Z, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- The panelist's nightmare
- The panelist's nightmareTuxedo and brown shoesThat pretty much sucks. What was that old "Lonesome George" Gobel quip to Johnny Carson from years back, after following Bob Hope and Dean Martin on the Tonight Show: "Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a...
- Tags: Federal government, Larry Lessig, FCC, panelist
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
- Japanese satellite shows US reliance on private sector is hot air
- I listened into the beginning of today's FCC hearing on Comcast's "network management" practices and I heard a lot about the importance of business models that allows operators to recoup their investments. Commissioner Robert McDowell said something along these lines: If companies can't repay their investors they won't build out...
- Tags: Japan, Wired Inc., Network, Satellite, Kizuna, Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- To fight Time Warner Cable's download pricing plans, we need a bit of "Nanny State"
- Hit the fan earlier today: Time Warner Cable says they will implement a tiered broadband subscription structure in which heavy downloaders will be charged more per month than those who don't download so much. AP reports in part: The company, the second-largest cable provider in the...
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., Broadband, Video, Net Neutrality, Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing Research, Corporate Communications, Internet, Telecommunications, Marketing, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Frontline Wireless folds but Martin 'hopeful' public safety network will survive
- Whither the next-generation national public safety network? Frontline Wireless, which had been trumpeting a proposal for a public/private partnership for public safety, announced a few days ago that it was "closed for business." The problem? FW couldn't raise the $128 million bond required to bid on spectrum expected to cost...
- Tags: FCC, Network, Auction, Wireless, Safety Network, Federal Government, Networking, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- FCC asked to make companies carry all text messages
- Public interest groups are taking the net neutrality battle to the very small screen. The groups are pushing the FCC to stop the cellphone carriers from discriminating against text messages, The Washington Post reports. In September, Verizon denied text messaging rights to NARAL, the abortion rights group....
- Tags: FCC, Verizon Communications Inc., Federal Government, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Government, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- FCC commissioner blasts US broadband, media policy
- FCC Commissioner Michael Copps accused the agency of " playing "Russian roulette with broadband and Internet and more traditional media" at a speech to the YearlyKos convention Thursday. He sees a connection between restrictive broadband policy and media consolidation, Ars Technica reports. In both cases, "a small number of...
- Tags: Internet, Broadband, Michael Copps, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- Open access should not be a partisan question
- The question of open access to the 700 MHz frequencies being abandoned in 2009 by TV should not be a partisan one.But it has become so. With Democratic FCC commissioner Jonathan Adelstein now speaking out on behalf of open access, in advance of final rules, the partisan nature of the...
- Tags: wireless, telecom, politics, Network Standards/Protocols, mass market, Legal, Government, General, business models
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- Internet over TV airwaves
- Internet, online and on the air Microsoft, Google, Dell, HP, Intel and Philips say they can deliver Internet over TV airwaves - and theyre pushing the FCC to give them the green light, says the Washington Post. The coalition has come up with a device that would...
- Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, Internet, cable, TV-Internet, TV
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- FCC: Build wireless emergency broadband network
- The Federal Communications Commission is proposing a national wireless, IP-based, broadband emergency network to be built by private companies, the BBC reports. "Earlier this year, I had an opportunity to hear local public safety personnel recount their experiences on the ground during the tragic events of...
- Tags: network, FCC, Government technology, Mobile/wireless, Emergency
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
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