Dibya Sarkar

Apparently, the Federal Communications Commission will rule that Verizon violated privacy laws when it tried to keep phone customers from switching providers. The ruling would uphold a complaint brought by Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, and it goes against an earlier staff recommendation that Verizon did not violate any consumer privacy laws.

"Any day now" became Thursday night for the Federal Communications Commission which agreed to temporarily cap the Universal Service Fund, a growing subsidy program that paid nearly $1.2 billion last year to cell phone companies that do business in rural areas.

Ten months before the nation flips to digital television, technology companies and TV broadcasters are fighting over the virtual remote, with different ideas of what to do with unused airwaves.