On the eve of the mobile phone industry's annual CTIA Wireless conference, AT&T dropped the bombshell news that it is acquiring rival T-Mobile for $39 billion. The move has all manner of repercussions for the wireless market, should it pass regulatory review. Assuming it does, here's what ... Read more...
Verizon has filed a lawsuit challenging the authority of the FCC to impose the net neutrality rules approved last month. The question boils down to interpreting the powers granted to the FCC by Congress, and Verizon is hoping to find a sympathetic court that sees things its way In a press relea... Read more...
U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski speaks to the media on the importance of net neutrality, Dec. 1, at the headquarters of the FCC in Washington, DC. U.S. communications regulators were poised to adopt Internet traffic rules on Tuesday that would allow providers... Read more...
Legislative text put forward by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) under the banner of mandating network neutrality would instead prevent the government from requiring broadband providers to treat all Internet traffic equally. Waxman, who has vowed that he would support the so-called 'Net Neutrality' p... Read more...
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission outlined a plan on Thursday that would allow the agency to control the transmission component of high-speed Internet, but not rates or content. In announcing the F.C.C. decision, Julius Genachowski, the commission’s chairman, said the agency ... Read more...