Boston wants to take back its basic cable

May 10, 2011
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino filed an emergency petition with the FCC to have the right to regulate cable prices. Boston is mad that Comcast is...

Emergency warning system gets with the times

May 10, 2011
Emergency messages from the President, Amber Alerts and other messages will start coming to people by way of text messages. The service will be...

Net neut back at the House

May 5, 2011
The House Judiciary Competition subcommittee meets today to weigh the FCC's net neutrality rules passed last December and antitrust issues....

FCC may give the country's broadband deployment a big F

Apr 20, 2011
The FCC's yearly 706 report on how well broadband providers are deploying broadband services to Americans. Last year was the first time in years...

FCC votes on data roaming

Apr 7, 2011
The FCC is set to vote today on whether to regulate data roaming the way the agency has regulated roaming for voice. So, if I'm out and about and...

AT&T - T-Mobile deal may hit a wall at the FCC. Unless it doesn't.

Mar 25, 2011
There are a couple ways to read the story that just came out in the Wall Street Journal about the proposed mega-merger. "There's no way the...

Comcast deal has interesting strings attached

Jan 19, 2011
As expected, the FCC and Justice approved the Comcast acquisition of NBC Universal. And as expected, there were conditions attached. The list is...

For public good, not for profit.

Looks like net neut is a done deal ... for now

Dec 21, 2010
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has the votes to pass his net neutrality plan. The FCC is scheduled to vote today on this plan. Here's an excerpt...

Verizon to pay the FCC and customers

Oct 28, 2010
I'm not really sure how much of a difference $25 million makes to a company like Verizon (they'll probably make that in the opening seconds of the...

All eyes turn to FCC in net neutrality debate

Sep 30, 2010
Now that Rep. Henry Waxman's net neutrality bill died before even getting out of committee, congressional Democrats are looking to the FCC to...