The FCC seems determined in revisiting and repairing the current CableCard rules fiasco in which it chose to mandate a universal Set-Top-Box for Cable, Telco, and...
WASHINGTON, April 29, 2010 – The Global Intellectual Property Center, an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, this week released a study examining the affects...
SAN FRANCISCO, April 29, 2010 - Measuring the impact of the U.S. legal doctrine of "fair use," which enables online activities such as search, limited copying,...
By now, the omnipresent television commercials have drummed Verizon’s 3G message into all our heads: big red map good, splotchy blue map bad. But nascent national...
DALLAS, April 29, 2010 - Broadband is a powerful solution to community ills, former two-term mayor Fort Wayne, Indiana, Graham Richard said Tuesday at a packed...
DALLAS, April 28, 2010 - There are a daunting number of rural American that do not have access to broadband, Rob Curtis, deployment director of the...
WASHINGTON, April 28, 2010 - Chapter Seven of the national broadband plan is one of the shortest of the entire document, with a primary focus on...
DALLAS, April 28, 2010 - Day Two at the 2010 Broadband Properties Summit here began with a discussion by broadband experts about how to connect rural...
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2010 – The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners is applauding a decision that no Federal Communications Commission ruling preempts states from collecting...
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2010 – The Commerce Department has announced nine broadband investments totaling more than $114 million in grants, in more than a dozen states....
DALLAS, April 27, 2010 - Special Correspondent Leonard Grace sits down with a busy Eric Cevis, a vice president with Verizon, the official corporate host of...
WASHINGTON, April 26, 2010 – House Republican leaders sent a letter last week to the House speaker and chairman of the Administration Committee requesting that lawmakers...
WASHINGTON, April 26, 2010 – The American Civil Liberties Union is applauding Google’s new tool that tracks and displays the number of government requests that the...
WASHINGTON, April 26, 2010 – The Federal Communications Commission this morning announced the launch of a spectrum task force designed to promote the agency’s spectrum agenda...
WASHINGTON, April 26, 2010 – BroadbandBreakfast.com, a broadband and internet technology news service on Monday - Intellectual Property Day - launched a new series of breakfast...
LAFAYETTE, La., -- April 23, 2010 -- When Google announced its Gigabit fiber network initiative this February, the first example it offered of what such a...
WASHINGTON, April 23, 2010 - BroadbandBreakfast.com on Friday released, for FREE, the full-length video of the Broadband Breakfast Club event on April 20, 2010: "The Great...
WASHINGTON, April 23, 2010 - Chapter Six of the National Broadband Plan tackles one of the most basic issues with broadband expansion by focusing on infrastructure....
WASHINGTON, April 23, 2010 - Qwest Communications has announced a merger with CenturyLink. The new firm will span 37 states with 5 million broadband customers, 850,000...
WASHINGTON, April 22, 2010 – The Commerce Department is seeking public comment on the impact of privacy laws in the United States and around the world...
WASHINGTON, April 22, 2010 - The Federal Communications Commission has kicked off its latest efforts to reform the much-maligned Universal Service Fund, which was created to...
LAFAYETTE, La., April 22, 2010 - The growth of the internet-connected workplace will force political leaders to re-think the policies needed to foster economic growth, argued...
LAFAYETTE, La., April 22, 2010 - Incumbent communications companies are welcome to set up shop on Google’s experimental super-high speed internet service once it’s up and...
The Federal Communications Commission’s national broadband plan seeks to promote telemedicine, but the national health care bill recently-passed by Congress fails to include support for it....
WASHINGTON, April 21, 2010 - BET Networks announced on Monday its submission of a proposal to the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) for...
BroadbandBreakfast.com, a daily web site with definitive and independent news on broadband stimulus funding, wireless internet, and the national broadband plan, will be there giving the...
LONDON, April 20, 2010 – Broadband is making strong inroads in Central and Eastern Europe, thanks to government and other incentives for providers to offer service...
LAFAYETTE, La., April 20, 2010 - To the extent that the city of Lafayette is famous for anything, it’s probably for its cultural status as the...
WASHINGTON, April 19, 2010 - Chapter Five of the plan focuses on spectrum, and its content is the most technical of the entire 360-page document. The...
WASHINGTON, April 16, 2010 - The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration on Friday announced an investment in broadband growth to help boost economic growth,...
WASHINGTON, April 15, 2010 -- Blair Levin, who became the chief architect behind the Federal Communication's National Broadband Plan as director of the FCC Omnibus Broadband...
WASHINGTON, April 15, 2010 -- Federal laws designed to guarantee public access to certain data should be revised to allow members of the Federal Communications Commission...
WASHINGTON, April 15, 2010 – The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission defended his agency and its National Broadband Plan while facing the business end of...
WASHINGTON, April 14, 2010 - After a post-grant review found numerous inefficiencies and unforeseen problems in the first round of Broadband Technology Opportunity Program grants caused...
LAS VEGAS, April 13, 2010 -- As the United States passes through a "transformative digital age," closing the gap between spectrum demand and availability will be...
WASHINGTON, April 13, 2009 – Although a group of economists acknowledged that regulation of internet services could benefit consumers, they’ve concluded that their analyses of current...
WASHINGTON, April 13, 2010 – The Open Internet Coalition reiterated its wish on Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission move quickly to classify high speed Internet...
WASHINGTON, April 12, 2010 – A group of well-known economists has determined that the Federal Communications Commission’s proposed network neutrality regulations would harm consumer welfare.
WASHINGTON, April 12, 2010 – Players in the telecommunications industry were elated last Tuesday as the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit invalidated the Federal...
The implications of the United States Court of Appeals decision to vacate FCC order in Comcast appeal.