Broadcasting&Cable
FCC Challenges Court's Smackdown
The Federal Communications Commission is seeking full-court review of a three-judge panel decision vacating its broadcast media ownership deregulation decision. The FCC filed a petition for review, arguing that the three-judge panel decision imposed burdens beyond those allowed in the Administrative Procedure Act, second-guessed the FCC to the point that it undermined congressional intent, and breaks with higher-court and sister-court pr
Reactions to FCC Approval of T-Mobile/Sprint Merger (Broadcasting&Cable)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 11/05/2019 - 16:06Apple, Tik Tok Decline Invitations to Sen Hawley Tough-Talk Tech Hearing (Broadcasting&Cable)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 11/05/2019 - 13:48AT&T Pushes Variation on Private C-Band Auction Theme (Broadcasting&Cable)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 11/05/2019 - 12:43Sen Thune Helps Mark Launch of Verizon 5G in Sioux Falls, South Dakota (Broadcasting&Cable)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 11/04/2019 - 17:49Sen. Graham Proposes STELAR Sunset Transition Plan (Broadcasting&Cable)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 17:04FCC Commissioner Rosenworcel to Senate: US Lacks Comprehensive 5G Plan
Federal Communications Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel looked to throw a scare into the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee about the country's 5G-readiness. That came at a hearing on the national security risks, supply chain security, an promise of 5G.
Supreme Court Raises Red Flags on Pre-emption
The US Supreme court has declined to overturn two lower court rulings that MN was preempted from regulating Charter Communications’s interconnected voice-over-internet protocol telephone service because the courts were convinced the operator had made the case for why it was an information service, not a telecommunications service, even though the Federal Communications Commission has yet to classify interconnected VoIP either way. That sounds like it would buttress the FCC’s assertion it can pre-empt state efforts to reregulate internet access, which the agency has definitely classified as