A new Senate bill proposes a way for companies to fulfill 40-year old FCC device labeling requirements by showing certifications digitally, on a device’s screen. Read more »
FCC chairman Tom Wheeler wants to make it easier for schools and libraries to get federal funds for Wi-Fi networking. Meanwhile, the Senate is putting political pressure on the FCC to… Read more »
Senator Jay Rockefeller has come up with a better way to try to skin the net neutrality cat, by treating it squarely as a competition issue rather than a telecommunications issue. Read more »
Wheeler not only has to manage an enormously complex spectrum auction next year, he faces two huge policy debates: the battle over net neutrality and the ramifications of the telecom industry’s… Read more »
Wheeler will take over an FCC about to oversee a huge transfer of airwaves from the broadcast to the mobile industry, as well as wrestle with issues such as net neutrality… Read more »
There are many in Washington itching for a shot at the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions generally who may try to seize on the bi-partisan support for cell phone unlocking as a vehicle… Read more »
The entertainment industry lost a number of key allies on Capitol Hill as a result of the election and the returns have scrambled the leadership of key committees in both the… Read more »
The Senate Commerce Committee will hold its first oversight hearing of the FCC this afternnon since the agency regained its full complement of commissions with the confirmations of Ajit Pai and… Read more »
Verizon’s joint marketing pact with the cable providers may be facing some serious scrutiny, but Verizon and its partners don’t seem to have noticed. On Thursday, Time Warner Cable blithely announced… Read more »
The chairman of the Senate antitrust committee is in the headlines this morning after he urged regulators to block AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA. Democratic Senator Herb Kohl of Wisconsin… Read more »