It's hard to know where to begin with this, but Creative has confirmed that Zii EGG handheld we saw pass through the FCC a few weeks ago, and proceeded to slap every odd marketing term the company has come up with over the past few years on it.
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Those companies now know they can approach a friendly FCC for a ruling in their favor, rather than fight to push regulatory changes through Congress, says Legg Mason analyst Blair Levin.
That decision would then be reviewed by the FCC before a final pronouncement is made.
If confirmed, expect Genachowski to take the FCC in a different direction than Martin has.
Look for Clyburn to become acting chair of the FCC for a few months if Genachowski steps down.
Verizon lobbied against Google's proposal, and the FCC struck a compromise in August that nixed the wholesale reselling requirement.
On Friday, the FCC released a 71-page glossy report entitled, "Moving Forward: Driving Investment and Innovation While Protecting Consumers, " which documented Mr. Martin's four years as chairman.
In May, the FCC received a complaint from Electronic Privacy Information Center, a privacy advocacy group, asking it to investigate whether Google violated federal communications law designed to prevent electronic eavesdropping.
Never in the 80 years of the FCC has a woman of any race or group been its chair, though women have been the nation's majority for a long time.
In June 2008, FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking suggesting rules which would significantly enhance its preexisting authority over product placement and micromanage how and when sponsorship disclosures would be made.
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The critics say that Martin is not paying enough attention and is in fact taking the FCC down a path where attention is not being seriously paid to studies that contradict a pro-cross-ownership position.
The rules at Butner FCC, a medium security prison, do allow for supervised furloughs for funerals of immediate family members, but only for inmates with two years or less left on their prison terms, the New York Post reported.
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This week, the FCC issued a proposed ruling to commissioners, which according to insiders, is likely to end up being in Continental's favor, given that the Feds are the only ones who can tell you how to use your hard-earned unlicensed spectrum.
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Back in 2002, the FCC rejected a proposed combination of the satellite TV providers Dish Network and DirecTV, asserting that a merger of the two companies would hurt consumers by reducing competition, in particular for rural customers who lacked local cable television service.
He saw a duopoly and he saw an FCC that wants a strong third competitor in the U.S. marketplace.
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So it isn't a shocker in the least bit that the FCC has granted a waiver on the mandate and now while operators are still required to make boxes with functional 1394 ports available to those who request it, the rest of the boxes can just support an IP interface instead.
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The central question in the debate is whether or not the FCC should allow a pure open incentive auction in which all qualifying companies may participate without restrictions, or whether the FCC should make the redistributed spectrum available only to those competitors serving fewer consumers.
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Crest Financial is mounting a court challenge as well as filing a petition to the FCC that this deal represents a diminution of value of all spectrum to be auctioned by the U.S. Government in the future.
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Alas, it was all to no avail, and Powell, working under a Republican administration, became the first FCC chairman to reject a merger since 1969.
The bespectacled, boyish Republican, who is 40, and the FCC soon will issue a report to Congress recommending that the FCC be allowed to regulate violence on broadcast and basic cable (doing so, the FCC says, won't violate the First Amendment).
Julius Genachowski will be stepping down when he reaches the end of his term as FCC Chairman, according to a brief message on the FCC's webpage.
The FCC must set a date certain for the switchover, and stick to it.
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The FCC has approved a dozen mobile mergers in the last five years alone.
This could drastically alter the telecommunication landscape, as the FCC is on a search for more spectrum.
The company is still in talks with the FCC and expects a resolution in a few months.
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"The FCC has spent a lot of time on this issue, " says Milo Medin, the company's CTO.
In April of last year, the FCC was dealt a serious blow to its plans when a D.
The FCC already issued a nationwide data roaming order in 2011, so why the redundant condition here?
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The FCC is taking a semi-approach to net neutrality wherein most of the rules will be applied to wireline broadband networks.
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An FCC approval for a new adapter, the Qube, suggests that reticence is coming to a quick halt -- and in an uncommon way.
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