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FCC Launches Gigabit City Challenge Genachowski urges creation of ultra-fast Internet networks

Julius Genachowski, the Federal Communications Commission chairman who recently picked up the nickname "the spectrum chairman" must also want to be known as "the gigabit chairman." In his speech today…

January 18, 2013, 1:54 PM EST

FCC to Free Up More Spectrum for WiFi Genachowski sits down with Gary Shapiro at CES

Trouble getting a good WiFi connection? Hang in there. Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski said the agency will begin a new proceeding next month to free up more spectrum…

January 9, 2013, 6:07 PM EST

New FCC Rules Expedite In-Flight Internet Speedier application process

The inside of an airplane used to be the only refuge from email and the Internet. Then came a few exceptions like Southwest and Air Tran. And now, the Federal Communications…

December 28, 2012, 2:06 PM EST

U.S. Says No to UN Control of the Internet U.S. supported at home by Congress, regulators, tech companies

The United States government said no to an international telecommunications treaty over provisions added at the last minute that would broaden the scope of the United Nations to include the…

December 14, 2012, 4:04 PM EST

FCC Media Ownership Rule Vote Pushed to Next Year Agency gives critics more time to comment

The Federal Communications Commission's quadrennial review of media ownership rules, already delayed two years, is delayed again. There will be no vote on the rules until early next year, at…

December 4, 2012, 10:32 AM EST

Senate Dems Blast FCC Draft to Relax Media Ownership Rules Letters follow outcry from public interest groups

Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski is catching a lot of flak inside the Beltway for how he's handling a draft order of media ownership rules. Rather than holding a…

November 30, 2012, 5:00 PM EST

FCC Takes Up Low-Power Radio to Add Diversity to Airwaves But could it just be a diversionary tactic?

Coincidences in Washington? Try this. Just when the Federal Communications Commission is circulating a draft order to loosen media ownership rules, it voted today to take final steps to create…

November 30, 2012, 12:10 PM EST

Is the FCC About to Take the First Step in Lifting Cross-Ownership Ban? Draft would allow newspaper-radio combos

If the Federal Communications Commission votes in favor of chairman Julius Genachowski's proposed order on the media ownership rules, it will represent a significant step toward complete deregulation. In the order…

November 15, 2012, 2:10 PM EST

FCC's Genachowski Circulates Media Ownership Order Details of proposal unclear, but likely to resemble 2007 rules

There was no doubt that the Federal Communications Commission would wait until after the election to deal with the always controversial review of media ownership rules that have been in…

November 14, 2012, 4:50 PM EST

Sandy Knocks Out 25 Percent of Communications FCC says it could get worse

Sandy wreaked havoc with the nation's communications from Virginia to Massachusetts and as far west as Michigan. The slow-moving monster took out about 25 percent of wireless, broadband, cable and…

October 30, 2012, 4:54 PM EDT

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