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The bottom line is that all the great reforms in our nation’s history have come, not as a gift from Washington, DC, but from a citizenry informed and organized and insistent upon making things right. We have a little better chance to do this now than we did a week ago.
Sacramento has come to stand as an example of the complexities involved in actually getting 5G services turned on.
Sens Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Tom Udall (D-NM) have added their voices to those of broadcasters and others asking the FCC to be careful how it allows new users to share the C-band spectrum they use to receive programming networks from suppliers.
During the ceremony, President Trump teased Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, who was in the room.
Federal Communications Commission General Counsel Tom Johnson is set to rebut net neutrality advocates on Feb. 1 before the DC Circuit Court of Appeals — and he previewed the agency’s arguments during a Free State Foundation event Nov 9.
Staff of the Federal Trade Commission called for a balanced approach that protects both consumer privacy and innovation in a comment submitted to the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) as part of that agency’s consumer privacy proceeding.
"There is a strong basis for enforcing these laws regardless of the White House's statements, but those statements in no way help the DOJ do its job effectively," says Gene Kimmelman, president and CEO of Public Knowledge.
CNN said that it is suing President Donald Trump and other administration officials over the decision to suspend the White House press credentials of correspondent Jim Acosta after a conflict at a news conference.
This 2018 edition of GISWatch focuses primarily on community-owned networks for the provision of physical communications infrastructure.
If there is a sector more ripe for the reinvigoration of antitrust regulation, I do not know it.
The Department of Justice announced that it has reached a settlement with six broadcast television companies to resolve a DOJ lawsuit alleging that the companies engaged in unlawful agreements to share non-public competitively sensitive information with their broadcast television competitors.
Too often, cities are blocking access to these rights of way, unless firms pay up. These government games are the very obstacles to deployment that the FCC rule is meant to fix.
AT&T's proposed law would ban blocking and throttling, allow paid prioritization.
Russia’s trolls and hackers mostly appeared to have sat on the sidelines during the campaign ahead of the midterm elections.
Facebook failed to closely monitor device makers after granting them access to the personal data of hundreds of millions of people, according to a previously unreported disclosure to Congress.
34 civil rights, consumer, and privacy organizations join in releasing public interest principles for privacy legislation
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