The FCC makes no substantive case of a real existing problem for the FCC to solve.
Democratic FCC Commissioner Michael Copps said its past time for the FCC to act on net neutrality.
Until last year, FCC rules didn't require carriers to certify to the FCC that subscribers were eligible.
Okay, so here's the "third way" plan FCC chairman Julius Genachowski and FCC general counsel Austin Schlick laid out this morning.
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You can report overly loud commercials to the FCC by calling 1-888-CALL-FCC.
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The FCC panel, officially known as "working group 11" of the FCC's Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council III, lacks regulatory authority.
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Recently, Verizon and Metro PCS appealed the FCC order on the grounds the FCC does not have the statutory authority to regulate the Internet.
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.
They also get tapped for a multitude of other tasks, including supervising auction deposits and payments and deymystifying FCC regulations, such as the FCC's anti-collusion rule, which forbids discussions among bidders.
In February, the FCC said that Free World Dialup should be considered an "unregulated information service" under FCC jurisdiction, rather than a telecom service, which would be governed by numerous state and federal regulations.
The FCC's role has never been more essential, and with Tom's deep policy expertise and his first-hand experience as a technology investor, he is a superb choice to advance the FCC's mission of promoting innovation, investment, competition, and consumer protection.
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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).
In a July 17, 2002 letter to the FCC, lawyers for the council and Mobile Satellite Ventures, a LightSquared predecessor, urged the FCC to approve an agreement in which MSV would limit the power of ground stations to protect GPS receivers.
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Court of Appeals in Comcast vs. the FCC ruled that the FCC was indeed trying to regulate the Internet in their net neutrality enforcement action against Comcast, and that the FCC had no such statutory authority to regulate broadband or the Internet.
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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In a sharp departure from the FCC's traditionally broad and vague regulations, including its proposed net neutrality mandates, this new direction would tie the FCC's regulatory oversight over broadband Internet service providers (ISPs) to marketplace-based decisions regarding alleged competitive abuses that cause demonstrable consumer harm.
Now we hate all the feet dragging by cable operators in the US as much as the next, and wish the FCC would enforce the Telecommunications Act of 1996 already, but that doesn't mean that everything big cable does is evil, or that the FCC is useless.
Boros, a former trial attorney for the FCC and board member of the International Radio and Television Society, said that the three Republicans on the FCC's five-person panel will vote in line with Martin, also a Republican, allowing the merger to go through and saving both companies in the process.
With that little Department of Justice business out of their way, Sirius and XM have unsurprisingly been quick to start chatting up the all-important FCC, and a recent filing from the agency has now revealed that lawyers from the two companies have met with none other than FCC Chairman Kevin Martin himself, along with other higher-ups.
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The action by the FCC was prompted by the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, which last summer urged the agency to undertake the reevaluation in view of the fact that the current standard was adopted by the FCC in 1996 based on the recommendations of various organizations including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE.
This suggests a more limited role for the FCC when it comes to merger review.
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Kennard, the FCC's current general counsel, would succeed Reed Hundt if confirmed by the Senate.
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If that does happen, officials at the FCC may end up feeling, well, sheepish.
With this appointment, Mignon will also distinguish herself as the first woman to lead the FCC.
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He needs only the blessing of one last holdout, the FCC, which could rule within weeks.
Res.6, the FCC Internet and Broadband Resolution of Disapproval, for up to four hours of debate.
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The FCC also benefits from the ruling, gaining more power over the regulatory environment.
Neither Congress nor the FCC will move decisively without a determined push from the White House.
He seems to think that Congress has mandated the FCC to make such changes.
He began his career at the FCC, where he saw the future of cable television.
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