Posted May 21, 2010
The Hill By Tony Romm Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) will chair a hearing next week on legislation that would require technology companies, phone manufacturers and Web vendors to adapt their products for deaf or blind customers.The scheduled discussion for May...
Posted May 03, 2010
Washington Post By Cecilia Kang The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has indicated he wants to keep broadband services deregulated, according to sources, even as a federal court decision has exposed weaknesses in the agency's ability to b...
Posted Apr 29, 2010
SpeedMatters.orgDuring its first hearing on the National Broadband Plan, U.S. House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet Chairman Rick Boucher expressed concern over one of the findings of the FCC\'s plan, arguing that more America...
Posted Apr 21, 2010
BroadbandBreakfast.com The Federal Communications Commission’s national broadband plan seeks to promote telemedicine, but the national health care bill recently-passed by Congress fails to include support for it.However, last week Virginia Gov....
Posted Apr 06, 2010
Wall Street Journal By AMY SCHATZ And BRENT KENDALL WASHINGTON—A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission exceeded its authority when it sanctioned Comcast Corp. in 2008 for deliberately slowing Internet traffic...
Posted Mar 20, 2010
New York Times Editorial The Federal Communications Commission’s broadband strategy comes not a moment too soon. High-speed Internet is on its way to replacing the telephone as the nation’s primary means of communication.But the United States ...
Posted Feb 10, 2010
The Hill By Kim Hart Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) introduced a bill today to update the E-Rate program to help close the digital divide.Markey authored the original E-Rate bill that, in 1996, allowed schools to link up to the Web. He said 95 percent of public...
Posted Feb 03, 2010
PCWorld Representative Matsui calls on the FCC to subsidize broadband service through the USF. The U.S. government should spend more on broadband adoption by redirecting money from a fund that subsidizes traditional telephone service to high-speed Int...
Posted Jan 21, 2010
Light Reading The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to meet this morning and offer a status report on the National Broadband Plan, which is to be delivered to Congress on March 17, a month later than expected. (See FCC Delays National Broadba...
Posted Dec 30, 2009
Gov Monitor The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that it has awarded Georgia one of 15 grants to fund broadband mapping and planning activities under NTIA’s State Broadba...
