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How Close Is Rupert Murdoch to Owning the L.A. Times and the Chicago Tribune?

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Alyssa Figueroa - Dec. 02 (News Analysis) - As the Tribune Co. emerges from bankruptcy, Murdoch’s News Corp. executives held talks with the company’s debt holders about acquiring the major papers. So what’s the Federal Communications Commission to do? Apparently, propose an order that weakens the exact rule that would have stood in the way of Murdoch’s desired acquisition.

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Regulator to Join Comcast After OK of NBC Deal

Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Joelle Tessler - May. 12 (News) - A top telecommunications regulator who voted to approve Comcast Corp.'s takeover of NBCUniversal in January is leaving to join the company as a lobbyist.

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NBC deal OK’d, Comcast hires regulator

Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Associated Press - May. 12 (News) - A top telecommunications regulator who voted to approve Comcast Corp.’s takeover of NBCUniversal in January is leaving to join the company as a lobbyist.

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After approving NBC buyout, FCC Commish becomes Comcast lobbyist

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Ars Technica - May. 11 (News) - Meredith Attwell Baker is leaving the FCC, but she won't be going far. Months after approving the Comcast/NBC deal, she will become one of the new company's top DC lobbyists.

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AT&T to Buy Rival in $39 Billion Deal

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Shayndi Raice, Anupreeta Das - Mar. 21 (News) - AT&T Inc. said it was buying T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom AG for $39 billion in cash and stock, a move that would create the nation's largest wireless carrier and shift the competitive landscape of the U.S. industry.

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Verizon appeals FCC's net-neutrality order

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Hill - By Sara Jerome - Jan. 20 (News) - Verizon issued a challenge on Thursday to the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) net-neutrality order.

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A Media Colossus Is Born: Feds Approve Comcast-NBCU Merger

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Sam Gustin - Jan. 18 (News) - The Federal Communications Commission gave its blessing to the marriage of NBC Universal and Comcast, which weds one of the world's premier entertainment and news companies to the nation's biggest cable and internet provider. The FCC imposed some conditions to keep the company from stomping rivals, but critics are not impressed.

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If the FCC had regulated the Internet: A counterfactual history of cyberspace.

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Slate - By Jack Shafer - Dec. 24 (Opinion) - The FCC immediately determines that the lack of interoperability among the online systems harms consumers and orders that each company submit a technical framework by January 1994 under which all online companies will unify to one shared technology in the near future. The precedent for this are the technical standards that the FCC has been setting for decades for AM and FM, and for television. The online services threaten legal action again, and again Congress passes new legislation authorizing the FCC to do as it wishes. The online companies hustle to submit a technical framework. Microsoft wants in on the game, so it persuades the FCC to extend the framework deadline to July 1995.

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Bigger and better than Wi-Fi

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Economist - Dec. 23 (Special Report) - the FCC has used the switch to digital as an opportunity to liberate huge swathes of bandwidth for others to use. The most valuable frequencies of all, those in the 700MHz band (channels 52-69), have been auctioned off to mobile-phone operators. Between them, Verizon, AT&T and others paid nearly $20 billion to clinch this prime spectrum. The reason these channels are so valuable—and why they were chosen for terrestrial television in the first place—is that their signals travel for miles, can carry a lot of information, are unaffected by weather and foliage, and go through walls to penetrate all the nooks and crannies within the bowels of buildings.

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Steve Wozniak to the FCC: Keep the Internet Free

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Steve Wozniak - Dec. 23 (Opinion) - If Net Neutrality opponents has been in charge back in the 1970s, I wouldn't have been able to build the first Apple computers

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Half a loaf: the FCC's Weak Rule on Net Neutrality

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Writing Corner - By Beth Wellington - Dec. 22 (Opinion) - My take: the new rule is another example of the Democrats' "half a loaf" thinking and falls short of pledges by President Obama and his administration to protect the Internet against phone and cable gatekeepers.

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Net Neutrality Rules Are Imminent From the F.C.C.