The FCC plans to vote later this month on a proposal that would prohibit two or more separately owned top four broadcast stations in the same market from jointly negotiating retransmission consent agreements, senior FCC officials said today. That could be good news for video...Learn More

The final accounting from the 2013 Broadband Connect America Fund program is all but completed – and the results were considerably different from what occurred with the 2012 program. I tallied up data from the FCC (see chart below), which yielded two key takeaways about...Learn More

Net Neutrality is a compelling issue for U.S. Internet users, according to results of a survey taken by the Consumer Reports National Research Center (CRNRC). Seventy-one percent of respondents said they would try to switch Internet Service Providers (ISPs) if their provider “were to try...Learn More

Windstream has agreed to pay $2.5 million to the U.S. Treasury to resolve an FCC investigation into the company’s rural call completion practices. In the rural call completion settlement released late yesterday, Windstream has agreed to implement a three-year plan to ensure compliance with FCC...Learn More

The FCC will not appeal the appeals court decision that recently struck down the commission’s Open Internet rules, also known as Net Neutrality. But that doesn’t mean the commission has given up on trying to impose such rules. Instead, the FCC has opened a new...Learn More

A new coalition is lobbying D.C. policy makers to open unlicensed spectrum for Wi-Fi and other uses as a means of boosting economic growth, creating jobs and spurring innovation nationwide. With members including the American Library Association, Best Buy, the ARRIS Group, Comcast the Consumer...Learn More

The TDM-to-IP transition trials that the FCC announced last week will include several types of trials, with a different objective for each trial type. In a 114-page order adopted last week and released Monday, the commission provides additional details about the trials, which are referred...Learn More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-06) issued the following statement on joining Reps. Henry Waxman (D-CA), Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) in introducing the Open Internet Preservation Act of 2014: “I am pleased to be an original cosponsor of legislation...Learn More

Updated February 4 The FCC today said it will invest an additional $2 billion over the next two years to support broadband networks in the nation’s schools and libraries. The money will come from the Universal Service E-Rate fund, also known as the schools and...Learn More

In his State of the Union address last night, President Obama raised hopes that 20 million students would gain high-speed broadband connectivity thanks to the support of companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Sprint and Verizon. With the support of those companies, he said “we’ve got...Learn More

The National Cable & Telecommunications Association on Wednesday filed a report with the FCC aimed at persuading the commission to allow 100 MHz of spectrum in the 5 GHz U-NII-1 band to be used more broadly for WiFi, including the new gigabit WiFi standard 802.11ac....Learn More

An appeals court today vacated two of three Net Neutrality guidelines put in place by the FCC in 2010 in its Open Internet Order, potentially paving the way for broadband providers to offer premium classes of service that prioritize certain types of traffic. The court...Learn More