Free Press

Free Press Executive Director Josh Silver made the following statement: The FCC's National Broadband Plan represents a decisive break from the policies of the Bush administration.

A coalition of media justice and public interest organizations sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski yesterday, calling on the agency to make increased diversity in the media and broadband communications landscape a top priority.

Free Press filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission urging the agency to protect consumers and promote competition. Ben Scott, policy director for Free Press, made the following statement...

Free Press has written the Federal Communications Commission requesting the ability to review data collected by the FCC in connection with its periodic inquiry into the deployment of advanced telecommunications capability to all Americans.

Free Press filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission outlining policies that are most critical to the success of the congressionally mandated national broadband plan to bring high-speed Internet to all Americans.

In meetings at the Federal Communications Commission, Free Press is urging modernization of the federal Universal Service Fund.

An ad hoc group of industry, labor and public interest organizations from both the Left and the Right expressed grave concern about the proposed Comcast takeover of NBC in an open letter to President Obama and Congress.

In a letter sent Tuesday to the Federal Communications Commission, Free Press and other consumer groups asked the agency to press Verizon Wireless after the company failed to adequately respond to the agency's questions regarding unfair cell phone penalty fees.

In advance of the Federal Communications Commission discussion of its policy framework for a National Broadband Plan, Free Press released a public interest guide that lays out the central questions that must be answered by the Commission. Free Press points to the creation of better broadband competition as the driving issue behind the plan's success.

Free Press, Consumers Union and Consumer Federation of America have reviewed Comcast's memorandum outlining the company's nine-point "public interest commitments."