Once again, security, technology, and privacy concerns have converged to create a policy dilemma that has regulators scrambling to catch up (EPN, Nov. 18, p. 169). The FBI and Department of Justice DOJ are pressuring the Federal Communications Commission FCC to ensure that...
SMR industry far from dead Dear Editor, RCR Wireless News recently ran the SMR Special Report in the Nov. 13 issue. Upon careful reading, it more properly should have been called the Nextel Special Report. I was surprised...
WASHINGTON--News flash: FCCCommissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth agrees with his colleagues 90 percent of the time. Yes, that's right. The commissioner renowned for saying "no" when his fellow commissioners say "yes" actually opposes the majority on only one-tenth of commission votes. ...
WASHINGTON--Sometimes the horse follows the cart, and both arrive at the same destination. In this case, the cart is the FCC in its decision to postpone the 700 MHz auction past September. Never mind that the law says otherwise, and a Sept....
It has been over three years since the Telecommunications Act was signed into law, triggering a full-scale merger mania in the telecommunications industry. It is safe to say that the Act provoked more upheaval in the industry than anyone, even the most hopeful of transactional attorneys, ever expected. The...
Gus Venditto is the editor-in-chief of internet.com. Technology people tend to ignore the government, thinking of it as some arcane curiosity that means little to their work. The general sentiment seems to be that the government helps the ...
M2 PRESSWIRE-28 July 1998-FCC: Dan Connors joins Commissioner Ness's office as interim legal advisor C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:240798 Dan Connors has been named interim Legal Advisor to Commissioner Susan Ness, replacing Legal Advisor David Siddall. Connors is on temporary detail from the International...
Commission close to compromise proposal letting networks have a piece of the profit but not of the action The three FCC commissioners working on a new set of financial interest and syndication rules were zeroing in last Friday on a compromise...
The FCC was working feverishly last week to put together a panel for its first localism hearing, in Charlotte, N.C., this Wednesday. As late as last Thursday, only the Democratic commissioners, who have been vocal critics of consolidation, had firm The FCC was working...
The FCC is expected to release a package of indecency actions, including a mix of fines and dismissals, that will have been voted on by the commissioners rather than issued by the Enforcement Bureau. That would help free up some license renewals he The...
FCC Chairman William Kennard last week predicted that AT&T's merger with MediaOne Corp. would be approved "within a matter of days," but other FCC sources say the commissioners are not close to a resolution. The merger was removed fro FCC Chairman William Kennard last...
A commentary by former FCC Interim Chairman James Quello After 23 years as an FCCcommissioner, including one as chairman, I stepped down in November 1997. Now, with freedom from the constraints and sensitivities of being a voting commissione ...
FCC Chairman William Kennard is stepping up his effort to persuade fellow commissioners to reject Sinclair Broadcasting's petition to alter digital TV transmission method 8-VSB. Although some commissioners say Sinclair's request to add COFDM as an FCC Chairman William Kennard is stepping up...
Say inconsistencies in defining markets can affect application of ownership rules Commissioners Susan Ness and Gloria Tristani don't like the way FCC officials are adding up radio stations for the purposes of enforcing local ownership limits. Say inconsistencies...
Having endorsed Michael Powell as a moderate and a bridge builder (B&C, Dec. 18) and Susan Ness as a steady and conscientious hand-on-the-tiller, if sometimes steering a course from which we diverge (B&C, Jan. 1), our tour of once and futur Having endorsed Michael...
WASHINGTON -- The broadcast networks would be allowed to own cable systems covering no more than 10 percent of the country and 50 percent of a given market under staff proposals presented to the Federal Communications Commission last week. Th ...
FCC chairman says he will wait for fifth commissioner before acting FCC Chairman Reed Hundt says he is ready to shelve the contentious debate over a quantified children's TV standard until a fifth commissioner arrives at the FCC. "I don't ha FCC...
Under commissioner's direction, team of interns has been searching for telco regs that are ready for the ax Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth doesn't like the way the FCC is handling its required review of telecommunications rules, so he's work Under commissioner's direction, team...
WASHINGTON -- RCN Corp., the scrappy cable overbuilder and local-phone reseller in East Coast cities and Northern California, lost another procedural battle with Time Warner Cable at the Federal Communications Commission. RCN has for months d WASHINGTON --...
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