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07/13/11 How fast is your internet? According to a new report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Federal Communications Commission more than one million rural Wisconsinites do not have access to high speed broadband internet.
07/07/11 A U.S. appeals court vacated a Federal Communications Commission rule relaxing limits on cross- ownership of newspapers and broadcast outlets, saying the agency failed to provide adequate notice.
06/30/11 Snyder County is at the top of the list. Unfortunately, the top of this list is not a good thing. With 47 percent of its population unable to access high-speed Internet service, the Federal Communications Commission has marked the county as a top priority for a new initiative.
06/24/11 Representatives from major agricultural organizations met recently in Washington to hear about potential interference with GPS systems if a pending waiver is granted. In 2010, LightSquared, a company formerly known as SkyTerra that works on wireless broadband, asked the Federal Communications Commission to allow it more on-land use of the electromagnetic spectrum, including an area bordering ...
06/22/11 The Community Advisory Board to the public broadcasting radio station formerly known as WXEL, FM 90.7 has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider the sale of the station to Classical South Florida.
06/17/11 Verizon is seeking approval from the Federal Communications Commission for the planned spectrum swap with U.S. Cellular.
06/07/11 share: digg facebook twitter A Boerne land investor paid about $3.6 million at a foreclosure auction Tuesday to acquire more than 800 acres of undeveloped land surrounding the Tapatio Springs Golf Resort and Conference Center. State corporate records list Harpole as an executive of Border Broadcasters Inc. According to the Federal Communications Commission's website, Border holds the license for ...
06/07/11 Verizon Wireless and U.S. Cellular have filed paperwork with the Federal Communications Commission in hopes of garnering approval for a planned spectrum swap. Under the terms of the agreement, Verizon Wireless will provide U.S. Cellular with 13 lower 700MHz B Block licenses and five lower 700MHz C Block licenses in Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Washington. In ...
06/02/11 Blair Levin, former executive director of the Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan, says that it has been a "pretty good year" for the plan.
06/01/11 USA based Sprint Nextel says that it has formally requested the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to block AT&T's proposed $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA, noting the Commission's responsibility to protect consumers and the industry against what it says is the kind of anti-competitive market control that will result from this transaction.
05/31/11 In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, Hickenlooper indicated that the merger could result in expanded broadband access in non-urban communities.
05/26/11 Cablevision Systems Corp., today filed a proposal in the Federal Communications Commission's proceeding on retransmission consent reform to protect consumers from programming blackouts by implementing three simple reforms in the retransmission consent process. ? The proposal came in comments submitted in response to the FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on retransmission consent:
05/10/11 Jeremiah Cornelius writes "The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, said the Commercial Mobile Alert System that Congress approved in 2006 will direct messages to cellphones in case of a terrorist attack, natural disaster, or other serious emergency. There will be at least three levels of messages, ranging from a critical national alert from the president to ...
05/06/11 A recent update to the Federal Communications Commission seal has resulted in a somewhat embarrassing problem for an organization staffed with technology experts and engineers.
04/27/11 A group that already owns six radio stations in the Erie market made a bid to buy a new FM signal in Lawrence Park at an auction the Federal Communications Commission opened today.
04/19/11 When the Federal Communications Commission worked out the rules last fall to convert unused TV channels for a new long-range, wall-piercing version of Wi-Fi, Houston resident Leticia Aguirre had no way of knowing that she'd host the nation's first residential "Super Wi-Fi" hot spot.
04/19/11 CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Kanawha County 911 Center officials are cooperating with a Federal Communications Commission investigation of 911 outages in Maryland. FCC engineers interviewed Kanawha County 911 Director Carolyn Charnock last week, after reading r...
04/13/11 House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden said Wednesday to look for a hearing and legislation on Federal Communications Commission reform.
04/13/11 AT&T Inc.'s proposed $39 billion acquisition of Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile USA raises questions about whether the deal would lead to consumer price increases, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's top economist says.
04/05/11 A federal appeals court on Monday rejected as "premature" a lawsuit by Verizon and MetroPCS challenging the Federal Communications Commission's pending rules aimed at keeping Internet service providers from blocking access to certain websites or applications.
04/02/11 Just as AT&T is about to go under the microscope for their merger attempt with T-Mobile USA, a new antitrust lawsuit was filed by the founder of Datarevenue.Org in federal court accusing AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile and TracFone of multiple antitrust violations. The U.S. Department of Justices' Anti-Trust Division, The Federal Trade Commission, and Federal Communications Commission were ... | 
