Federal Communications Commission News

Federal regulators are keeping America from moving forward. According to recent news stories reviewed by my colleagues at the conservative nonprofit organization Engage America, federal red tape has squelched at least 736,203 potential jobs.

Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, spoke in San Diego Thursday about Connect2Compete, a project to ease the digital divide for low income families.

Jacksonville State University could create a new radio station following the reversal of a decision by the Federal Communications Commission According to the Anniston Star , the FCC last week awarded the JSU Board of Trustees a license to broadcast a noncommercial educational format on 100.1 FM from a transmitter in Anniston.

U.S. lawmakers will delve on Thursday into an international debate on whether to hand more control of the Internet to the United Nations, a move many fear would turn it into a political bargaining chip for censorship and global taxes on Web companies.

A bill designed to simplify how the Federal Communications Commission reports to Congress on competition in the media industry passed the House of Representatives Wednesday by a voice vote under suspension of the rules.

A group of regional wireless carriers is calling AT&T's bluff when it comes to claimed interference issues in the lower spectrum bands of the 700 MHz frequency.

The Alliance for Broadband Competition today filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission requesting that it probe Verizon's proposed acquisition of 122 AWS spectrum licenses from SpectrumCo.

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Bloomberg's Megan Hughes reports that AT&T Inc. CEO Randall Stephenson lost $2.08 million in bonus pay after Democrats killed his bid to build the biggest mobile provider.

In his new book, Unzipping the Digital World , the chairman of the TM Forum takes square aim at two groups whom he views as obstacles to the success of telecom service providers in the digital era: regulators and financial analysts.

The Paperwork Reduction Act may slow the implementation of a new Federal Communications Commission rule that will require broadcasters to post political ad data online, ProPublica reports.

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Former Lancing College pupil Marius Milner was named by the New York Times as an anonymous Google employee who wrote the computer code that allowed personal data to be intercepted by the internet giant's Street View cars.

Spectrum changes approved by the Federal Communications Commission late last week open the door for Sprint to launch an LTE service and provide hospitals with a way to wirelessly monitor their patients.

The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology has scheduled a hearing on Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building.

The Writers Guild of America West has been selected by the Federal Communications Commission to participate in the commission's first Open Internet Advisory Committee, which will assist in tracking and evaluating the FCC's Open Internet rules.

Federal Communications Commission general counsel Austin Schlick will exit the commisison effective mid-June, the chairman's office announced Friday.

The House next week will take up a bill to streamline reports the Federal Communications Commission is required to submit to Congress.

The San Francisco Amateur Radio Club in cooperation with the California Historical Society will mark the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge by contacting other amateur radio operators throughout the world on Saturday, May 26th and Sunday, May 27th.

The Federal Communications Commission this week approved the use of LTE and other 3G radio technologies in the 800MHz spectrum band.