President Barack Obama has nominated Michael P. O’Rielly, for the job of FCC commissioner. This is a Republican vacancy. O’Rielly was an advisor to Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn and has spent a… Read more »
Time Warner Cable, like some other broadband service providers, is now charging monthly rental fee for modems. That’s hardly a surprise, given the dearth of alternatives for consumers. Of course, the… Read more »
The much rumored and much talked about deal between Sprint Nextel and LightSquared has finally come to fruition, the two companies announced Thursday. LightSquared says that this deal will lower its… Read more »
A report shows that by 2018, the traditional phone system is going to be reaching less than 6 percent of U.S. residents. It’s perhaps time to rethink the very notion of… Read more »
AT&T on Wednesday announced that it will launch its initial LTE service in five markets – Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. GigaOM had an exclusive first look at the… Read more »
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has come under fire from all sides over his and the FCC’s stance on Net Neutrality. But if there is one bright spot, it has been the… Read more »
The FCC today released a new report, Internet Access Services, which gives the state of Internet in the US — at the end of June 2009. The problem is that the… Read more »
Google has reached an agreement with Verizon over Internet traffic management. It is the first step in what would amount to slow asphyxiation of network neutrality. The deal apparently prevents Verizon… Read more »
At least someone things FCC is doing a bang-up job, indicated by financial investments in emerging competitors to traditional broadband and mobile industry incumbents. “I understand that there has been a… Read more »
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski spoke to a YouTube team about the National Broadband Plan and tried to respond to questions from Internet users across the country. The answers to put it… Read more »