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FCC Chairman Puts Focus On Spectrum

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski once again put a spotlight on the need for more spectrum, in...

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Biden to Announce First Broadband Grant Winners

Turns out broadband grants are a vice presidential kind of thing. Vice President Joe Biden, who...

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Boucher Says 50mb/20mb Should Be Baseline of Broadband Plan

House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher (D-Va.) has told the FCC that he hopes...

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FCC: Small Business Is Big Broadband Player

FCC staffers in Chicago were told in no uncertain terms that connecting small businesses and...

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FCC's Levin: Broadband Plans Don't Threaten Future Of Broadcasting

In an exclusive interview with B&C's John Eggerton, FCC broadband advisor Blair Levin talks...

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NTIA Awards More Broadband Mapping Grants

Montana, New Hampshire, Utah and U.S. Virgin Islands receieve...

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D.C. Starts Year With Heat Wave

As members of Congress headed home after a late December session, a lot of unfinished business...

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Obama Administration: Spectrum Is Primary Tool in Broadband Competition

In NTIA filing, calls for FCC to eye concentrated broadband markets, adopt "network disclosure...

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Justice Joins NTIA in Promoting Spectrum Reallocation

Files comments with FCC in line with NTIA's call for finding more spectrum to increase broadband...

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Minority, Women's Organizations Call on FCC to Ponder Net Neutrality Rules

Groups ask for workshop on possible negative impact on access to...

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Genachwoski: Broadband Plan Will Be Bold, Pro-Active

Chairman says FCC will address spectrum shortages and adoption...

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Media Critic Sen. Byron Dorgan To Exit Senate

Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) has decided not to seek re-election next year, which will see the...

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FCC Asks Congress for 4-Week Extension of Broadband Plan

Commission says broadband team will not deliver plan by Feb. 17. In late December, FCC broadband...

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McDowell: FCC Will Delay Broadband Plan Deadline

According to FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, the agency will not be delivering its broadband...

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Rockefeller Backs Broadband Date Delay

FCC gets support from various quarters for request of one extra...

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NTIA, Rural Utilities Service Launch BroadbandMatch

Online tool will match potential partners in broadband rollout...

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CES 2010: Spectrum Debate Hits the Strip

The debate over whether the federal government should reclaim part, or all, of broadcasters'...

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FCC Gets Torrent Of Tough Questions In Oral Argument

BitTorrent Decision Gets Scrutinized at Appeals Court Oral...

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CES 2010: FCC's Genachowski: Internet's 'Special Magic' Must Be Preserved

Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski reiterated that the U.S. needs to...

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Music Industry Group Creates Net Neutrality Website

Site features net neutrality shout-outs from musicians like R.E.M. and Pearl...

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Administration Backs Spectrum Search

Broadcasters defend turf against FCC's forecast of a mid-decade...

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Cohen: Clear Internet Rules Would Be Better Than Confusion

Comcast exec. VP says opposition to FCC's BitTorrent order not about net...

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A New Year’s Resolution on Net Neutrality: Can Free Press and Public...

BC/DC is the media executives\' must-see view from Washington, delivered by yours truly without...

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Comcast's Roberts Tells Genachowski: No Quick Retrans Fixes

In Jan. 8 meeting at CES, Comcast chief and FCC chairman discussed retrans, set-tops, net...

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Free Press Responds: No Kumbaya on K Street

BC/DC is the media executives\' must-see view from Washington, delivered by yours truly without...

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Free State: Neutrality Rules Could Be Internet Fairness Doctrine

Free-market think tank argues against expanded...

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Public Knowledge Responds: We Love Peace!

BC/DC is the media executives\' must-see view from Washington, delivered by yours truly without...

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Supporters, Detractors Weigh In On FCC's Net Neutrality Principles

Comcast, ACA among those making comments to commission about Internet...

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Net Neutrality Advocates To FCC: Two Titles Are Better Than One

Policy groups say FCC should assert its authority under Title I and...

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NTIA and RUS Outline Second Round of Broadband Stimulus Bidding

And unlike the first round, the two will solicit bids separately. NTIA and RUS said Friday the...

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Source: FCC Got 120,000 Network Neutrality Comments

Unofficially 110,000 back proposed expansion and codification of...

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Jon Leibowitz to Provide Opening Remarks at Jan. 19 Workshop

FTC chairman believes his commission will have large role in net...

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FCC's Bellaria Says Broadcasters Lobbying Against Scenario That's No Longer...

Broadcasters have been lobbying hard against what they see as a spectrum grab by the FCC in...

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Preserve Thyself

What broadcasters have seen as a possible spectrum grab that would leave them beached and...

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A Third Way on Network Neutrality

Last year, the Federal Communications Commission voted to continue the arduous task of creating...

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Leibowitz Gives Strong Support to FCC's Net Neutrality Proposals

FTC chair says transparency and open internet critical to consumer friendly...

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NTIA Sets Another $63 Million in Grants For Broadband Adoption

Massachusetts, Michigan and North Carolina to receive newest...

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Minority Groups Take Net Neutrality Codification Concerns to White House,...

MMTC calls closing digital divide one of most pressing civil rights issues of the...

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Clyburn Says Net Neutrality Is in Minorities' Interest

FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn told a minority media conference audience Jan. 22 that network...

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McDowell Warns Against Regulatory Rubik's Cube Of Title II Reclassification

Says change could apply not only to ISPs but any company offering voice...

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Talkback

Network Neutrality Hurts the Little Guy (RE: “Clyburn Says Net Neutrality Is in Minorities’...

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Net Neutrality and the Chamber of Horrors

Groups come together to highlight "stifling" effect of net neutrality...

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Obama Stands Behind Network Neutrality

In an interview Monday (Feb. 1) on YouTube, President Barack Obama gave a shout-out to network...

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ACA: New Stimulus Rules Are Not Fair and Balanced

Small and mid-sized cable operators unhappy with new...

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Focus on Main Street First

The Federal Communications Commission has been working 24/7 to craft a national broadband plan...

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Waldman: No FCC Bailouts in Store for Media

Senior advisor is responsible for report on state and fate of industry in midst of...

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Government Closed Monday But Broadband Stimulus Money May Be Handed Out

Chopra, Webb and Warner to give "Recovery Act" press conference Feb....

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NTIA Gives Out $21.5 Million in Broadband to Projects in Southern Virginia

Grants will connect 121 elementary and high schools, connect Va. Tech to Bedford...

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Google to Build Its Own Killer App Network

Company to build fiber-to-home net test beds in various...

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Behind Google's Broadband Strategy

Is Google planning pricey Potemkin broadband villages? As part of an expensive lobbying move,...

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