F.C.C. Advances Plan for Faster In-Flight Wi-Fi
WASHINGTON — It may soon be easier and faster to surf the Web at 30,000 feet. The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday proposed auctioning off the rights to use newly available ... Read more
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Economic Scene: Google Project May Spur Broadband Competition
It has been almost two decades since @Home Network offered perhaps the first broadband plan in the country. It was right after the 1996 Telecommunications Act allowed cable companies to get into the business. ... Read more
Tom Wheeler, Telecom Investor, Is F.C.C. Nominee
WASHINGTON – President Obama nominated Tom Wheeler, an investor in telecommunications start-ups who a decade or more ago served as the chief lobbyist for two industry trade groups, as chairman of the ... Read more
Obama Fund-Raiser Is Likely Pick to Lead F.C.C.
WASHINGTON — President Obama is expected on Wednesday to nominate Tom Wheeler, a venture capital investor and fund-raiser in Mr. Obama’s presidential campaigns, as chairman of the Federal ... Read more
Two Deterrents to Robocalls Win F.T.C. Contest
WASHINGTON — Caller ID, Do Not Call registries, telephone number blocking — all entered the arsenal of consumer weapons against telemarketers to great acclaim, only to fall from favor as growing ... Read more
F.C.C. Has Yen for Broadway’s Wireless Spectrum
An hour before curtain at “Mamma Mia!” at the Winter Garden Theater on Broadway, Craig Cassidy, the head sound man, starts his nightly ritual of testing the wireless microphones that the performers ... Read more
Genachowski Announces Resignation as F.C.C. Chairman
The resignation on Friday of Julius Genachowski after four years as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission again raises a thorny issue for President Obama: whether it will be possible to get the ... Read more
F.C.C. Chairman Announces Resignation
Julius Genachowski, the Federal Communications Commission chairman since June 2009, who set out ambitious plans to expand broadband Internet service throughout the country and to free up additional airwaves for ... Read more
Fund That Subsidizes Internet for Schools Should Expand, a Senator Says
WASHINGTON — The $2.3 billion federal E-Rate program, which subsidizes basic Internet connections for schools and libraries, should be overhauled and expanded to provide those community institutions with ... Read more
F.C.C. Urges a Right to Unlock Cellphones
WASHINGTON — For a decade consumers have been able to keep their cellphone numbers even if they switched their wireless carriers. On Monday, the Obama administration and the Federal Communications ... Read more