Advertising trade groups are seizing the political moment in a bid to dismantle the Federal Communications Commission’s recently passed broadband consumer privacy laws . With the commission on the cusp of a Republican majority – Chairman Tom Wheeler has said he’ll step down on inauguration day – the writing could be on the wall for the FCC’s controversial regulations.
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Broadband Carriers Urge FCC To Roll Back New Privacy Rules
Broadband carriers are urging the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider its stringent new privacy rules, which require carriers to obtain consumers’ opt-in consent before drawing on their Web-surfing data for ad targeting. In a petition filed Monday, the trade group US Telecom Association argues that carriers shouldn’t be subject to tougher rules than other Web companies — like search engines and social networking services.
How Donald Trump Could Make Rupert Murdoch Even More Powerful
President-elect Donald Trump may be preparing to give Rupert Murdoch a big reward for the positive coverage Murdoch’s outlets provided during the election. Trump has asked Murdoch to submit the names of possible nominees for Federal Communications Commission chairman, according to a report from New York magazine’s Gabriel Sherman.
Univision wins FCC waiver to allow its Mexican partner, Televisa, to increase ownership stake
The Federal Communications Commission has approved a measure that relaxes foreign ownership rules to enable Grupo Televisa of Mexico to claim a larger stake of the U.S. Spanish-language broadcasting giant Univision Communications. Univision’s chairman, Haim Saban, has been lobbying the FCC for the waiver for more than three years.
2017: Trump’s Reality Revolution Won – Now It Must be Implemented
Washington, D.C. has been – for decades, in bipartisan fashion – a swallowing void of anti-reality. The federal government has at best terribly mishandled, at worst utterly destroyed everything in which it insists on involving itself.
New York Times: Corporations Help Themselves by Playing Along With Trump
American companies are playing along with President-elect Donald Trump’s claims that he is forcing businesses to create jobs in the U.S. in order to benefit themselves, The New York Times editorial board claims . In a Monday editorial, the board wrote, “President-elect Trump would like everybody to believe that his election is energizing the economy by forcing businesses to create thousands of jobs in the United States.
FCC’s 5 biggest battles for Trump’s first year
Republicans are poised to take control of the Federal Communications Commission and the agency is bracing for a shake-up. Wheeler will step down in 2017 and control is tilting to the agency’s Republican commissions after Dem Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel failed to be reconfirmed.
Connecticut official to sit on advisory board to FCC
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has been appointed to a board that advises the Federal Communications Commission on telecommunications issues, ranging from cable franchising to broadband access. Elin Swanson Katz, the state’s advocate for consumers, will be the Democratic governor’s designee on the FCC’s Intergovernmental Advisory Board.
AT&T Intros Tool To Stop Spam Calls
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NBC Boston launches Jan. 1, but Bristol County will be in the dark
A new television station, NBC Boston, goes live in Eastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire on New Year’s Day, carrying the NBC lineup of programs along with an emphasis on regional news, sports and weather. Channel 7, WHDH-TV, the current and longtime NBC Boston affiliate, is converting to a mostly news format, with expanded coverage of local news, station officials have said.  Borrowing many on-air people from New England Cable News, which along with Telemundo shares the same ownership by Comcast, the startup is a major development in the Boston television market.
State, Casey try to keep broadband money in Pa.
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Wanting, expecting good cell coverage
Being in the two-way radio business for a number of years, I have been engaged in the process of securing “tower sites” for commercial, industrial and municipalities throughout the state. The concerns and complaints regarding the proposed Lafayette cell tower I have heard a number of times, and each time they can be explained away.
FCC Decision Could Be Life-Changing For MN’s Deaf Community
In a move being called one of the most important communications advances for deaf people in decades, the Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously earlier this month to replace support for an outdated form of text telephone communications with support for real-time text . Those in Minnesota’s deaf and hard of hearing community say it’s news they’ve been waiting on for years.
What Happened to Unlocking the Box? 2016 in Review
EFF spends a lot of time investigating the latest trends and developments in technology, trying to stay one step ahead of the most recent threats to your digital rights. This isn’t one of those stories.
AT&T Intros Tool To Stop Spam Calls
Robocalls have become a “scourge” on U.S. consumers, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said this past summer upon calling on the tech industry to help find solutions. One proposed fix, just launched by AT&T, is to provide wireless customers with automatic blocking of fraudulent calls and warnings of suspected spam calls.
Allow state to use federal funds to expand broadband
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Cybersecurity 2017 – The Year in Preview: Changes Afoot in Federal Enforcement?
Fragmentation in U.S. data privacy and cybersecurity law is both peril and promise. The peril? Businesses must contend with uncertainty and the costs associated with pleasing many regulatory masters.
FCC Adopts Globalstar Order
Globalstar, Inc. is very pleased to announce that the Federal Communications Commission adopted a Report and Order based on Globalstar’s Revised Proposal for terrestrial authority over the Company’s 11.5 MHz of licensed 2.4 GHz spectrum.
UPDATE 1-Mobile phone company to pay $30 million in U.S. fraud case
A KDDI Corp mobile phone unit has agreed to pay $30 million to resolve U.S. government claims that it defrauded a low-income subsidy program by seeking reimbursement for ineligible consumers, prosecutors said on Thursday. Total Call Mobile LLC agreed to no longer participate in the Lifeline subsidy program or reimburse tens of thousands of ineligible consumers who had enrolled, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.
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Software corporation Oracle is asking the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider the sweeping broadband privacy rules passed earlier this year. Oracle, which spent years unsuccessfully attempting to prove that Google’s Android code infringes copyright, says the FCC’s recent order on privacy will give Google an unfair advantage against Internet service providers.
Oracle Petitions FCC To Reconsider Broadband Privacy Rules
Software corporation Oracle is asking the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider the sweeping broadband privacy rules passed earlier this year. Oracle, which spent years unsuccessfully attempting to prove that Google’s Android code infringes copyright, says the FCC’s recent order on privacy will give Google an unfair advantage against Internet service providers.
Net Neutrality or Level Playing Field
It was announced on Dec. 15 that the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission , Thomas Wheeler, would be stepping down as of Jan. 20, 2017. Wheeler has been the lead arbitrator and backer of a concept called “net neutrality.”
Net Neutrality Rule to Get Scrutiny From FCC Republicans ‘Soon’
Republicans poised to control the Federal Communications Commission next month said they’d revisit the net neutrality regulation “as soon as possible,” laying out plans to address a rule they’ve opposed and that Democrats support. The statement Monday from Commissioners Ajit Pai and Michael O’Rielly indicates that opponents of the rule such as top broadband providers AT&T Inc. and Comcast Corp. may not need to wait for Congress to grapple with the regulation that requires equal treatment of web traffic.
Net Neutrality Or Level Playing Field
It was announced on December 15, 2016 that the current Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission , Thomas Wheeler, would be stepping down as of January 20, 2017. It was announced on December 15, 2016 that the current Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission , Thomas Wheeler, would be stepping down as of January 20, 2017.
Donald Trump, NBC and the FCC: Will the executive producer-in-chief…
Trump is keeping business ties to Comcast and appointing a new FCC chair. Net neutrality’s days could be numbered President-elect Donald Trump’s recent meeting with the heads of big U.S. tech firms touched on many important topics, from immigration and tax reform to maternity leave.
Net Neutrality Rule to Get Scrutiny From FCC Republicans – Soon’
Republicans poised to control the Federal Communications Commission next month said they’d revisit the net neutrality regulation “as soon as possible,” laying out plans to address a rule they’ve opposed and that Democrats support. The statement Monday from Commissioners Ajit Pai and Michael O’Rielly indicates that opponents of the rule such as top broadband providers AT&T Inc. and Comcast Corp. may not need to wait for Congress to grapple with the regulation that requires equal treatment of web traffic.
FCC Adopts Real-Time Text (RTT) Services for Americans with Disabilities
CLEARWATER, Fla. – Dec. 19, 2016 – PRLog — FCC Adopts Real-Time Text Services for Americans with Disabilities The Federal Communications Commission on Dec 15th, 2016 ruled that phone companies replace the currently used text telephone communications to now support real-time text to provide better technology and more reliable telephone communications for Americans who are deaf, hard of hearing, Deaf-blind or those with a speech disability.
U.S. Residents Continue to Struggle With Slow Internet Speeds
A new Federal Communications Commission report shows that roughly half of the U.S. population have below-average broadband data connections. Despite the significant popularity of social media sharing, Netflix , and YouTube, Internet speeds are actually much slower than many people thought.
Why Shares of Globalstar Inc. Rocketed Higher Today
The FCC is reportedly set to consider a new proposal from the company after a previous plan was shot down earlier this year. surged on Monday following news that the Federal Communications Commission has drafted a new proposed order in response to a revised proposal that Globalstar filed on Nov. 9. The stock was up 47% at 10:45 a.m. EST.
What I want for Christmas: An end to robocalls, more savings, less fraud
CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s time for my 12th annual “What I want for Christmas” list. Some wishes from Christmases past have come true: Most major retailers have finally — a year after they should have — shifted to payment terminals that accept credit and debit cards with EMV chips.
FCC Chair Wheeler To Step Down
The Federal Communications Commission is about to get a big shakeup in terms of personnel and quite likely in policy. On Thursday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler [seen here], who pushed through controversial rules protecting net neutrality and guarding consumer privacy, announced he will step down from the commission on Jan. 20, the same day that Donald Trump will be inaugurated as president.