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Dibya Sarkar
FCC expected to rule Verizon violated privacy laws
Submitted by Benton Foundation on June 20, 2008 - 7:52amApparently, 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.
Federal Communications Commission Caps Cell Phone Company USF Payments
Submitted by Benton Foundation on May 2, 2008 - 7:16am"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.
Tech, TV vie for unused airwaves
Submitted by Benton Foundation on April 8, 2008 - 7:21amTen 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.
