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

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Brian Stelter - Dec. 21 (News Report) - The Federal Communications Commission appears poised to pass a controversial set of rules that broadly create two classes of Internet access, one for fixed-line providers and the other for the wireless Net.

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FCC Passes Compromise Net Neutrality Rules

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Sam Gustin - Dec. 21 (News Report) - The FCC passes landmark, but compromise, rules that ban the nation's internet service providers from blocking or slowing down the content that internet users want to see. The rules are likely to face a court challenge soon, however.

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FCC set to enact strong rules affecting Internet access

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Cecilia Kang - Dec. 21 (News Report) - Federal regulators are poised to enact controversial new rules affecting Internet access, marking the government's strongest move yet to ensure that Facebook updates, Google searches and Skype calls reach consumers' homes unimpeded.

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FCC Net Neutrality Rules Slammed from All Sides

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Ryan Singel - Dec. 20 (News Analysis) - The federal government’s new internet fairness rules — aimed at preventing the nation’s cable and DSL internet service providers from meddling with the open, free-wheeling nature of the internet — were met with loud criticism Monday night from all sides of the political spectrum.

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F.C.C. Chairman Outlines Broadband Framework

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Edward Wyatt - Dec. 01 (News) - Thwarted by the courts, by lawmakers on Capitol Hill and by some of his fellow commissioners, the Federal Communications Commission chairman will try again on Wednesday to devise a new strategy for regulating broadband Internet service providers.

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Netflix Partner Says Comcast 'Toll' Threatens Online Video Delivery

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Brian Stelter - Nov. 29 (News) - Level 3 Communications, a supplier of the Internet backbone for Netflix, said Monday that Comcast had effectively set up a tollbooth around its broadband Internet network.

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The final nail in coffin for Net neutrality

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Business 2.0 - By David Goldman - Nov. 03 (News Analysis) - Before Tuesday's midterm elections, there were 95 House and Senate candidates who pledged support for Net neutrality, a bill that would force Internet providers to not charge users more for certain kinds of Web content. All of them lost -- and that could mean the contentious proposal may now be all but dead.

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U.S. Is Working to Ease Wiretaps on the Internet

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Charlie Savage - Sep. 27 (Special Report) - Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone.

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Google, Verizon propose Net neutrality framework

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Marguerite Reardon, Tom Krazit - Aug. 09 (News Report) - CEOs from Google and Verizon Communications on Monday announced a proposal to policymakers for keeping the Internet open. The companies jointly suggested a legislative framework for consideration by lawmakers. The major breakthrough in the proposal is an agreement that the nondiscrimination clause that the Federal Communications Commission has proposed as part of its regulatory efforts would be enforceable. "We agree that, in addition to these existing principles, there should be a new, enforceable prohibition against discriminatory practices," the proposal states. (See entire document embedded below.) "This means that for the first time, wireline broadband providers would not be able to discriminate against or prioritize lawful Internet content, applications, or services in a way that causes harm to users or competition."

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Google and Verizon in Talks on Selling Internet Priority

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Edward Wyatt - Aug. 04 (News Report) - Google and Verizon, two leading players in Internet service and content, are nearing an agreement that could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content’s creators are willing to pay for the privilege.

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Court Rules Against F.C.C. in ‘Net Neutrality’ Case

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Edward Wyatt - Apr. 06 (News Report) - An appeals court said that the agency lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic.

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Plan for wiring the U.S. released

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Cecilia Kang - Mar. 16 (News Report) - The Federal Communications Commission announced on Monday its long-awaited plan to bring broadband Internet connections to every home and business in the United States, part of an ambitious, multibillion-dollar attempt to create a new digital infrastructure for the nation's economy.

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The FCC National Broadband Plan: Long Haul Expected

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:07:52 -0800

Business Week - By Olga Kharif - Mar. 10 (News Report) - Paul Karpowicz has nothing against broadband. But he has no plans to take part in a government effort to bring it to more homes. Karpowicz is president of Meredith Broadcasting, which owns 12 local TV stations from Portland, Ore., to New Haven, Conn.

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Google Voice, AT&T, and the FCC: Fighting Over the Wrong Thing

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Business Week - By Stephen Wildstrom - Oct. 11 (Special Report) - What do Google Voice, AT&T, sex chat lines, and New Deal efforts to provide rural telephone service have do do with each other? Quite a bit, it turns out; the seemingly unrelated issues of sex chat and rural phone service lie at the heart of the

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Obama picks Net neutrality backer as FCC chief

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

CNET News - By Declan McCullagh - Mar. 04 (News Report) - President Obama on Tuesday nominated Julius Genachowski as the nation's top telecommunications regulator, picking a campaign advisor who has divided his career between Washington, D.C., political jobs and working as an Internet executive.

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