the safeguarding of consumer interests in terms of quality, price, and safety, usually within a statutory framework. The growing purchasing power of consumers and the...
A $3 BILLION CABLE SHAM? The `Consumer Protection Act of 1990' (EDITOR'S NOTE -- Printed here are the contents of a booklet written and distributed by William B. Finneran, chairman of the New York State Commission on Cable Television, to...
Deborah Lathen, installed a few months back as chief of the FCC's Cable Services Bureau, is starting to make some changes. With big policy debates like digital must-carry only beginning to heat up, Lathen has had time to think about personnel. In her Deborah Lathen, installed...
The revamping was expected because regulation of upper-tier rates' sunset on March 31. The six other staffers who now make up the financial analysis division would be transferred to the common carrier bureau to handle "slamming" cases aga The revamping was expected because regulation...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y) has called on FCC Chairman Michael Powell to step up regulation of the wireless industry to improve mobile-phone service and consumer protection, a proposal with potentially huge economic implications that WASHINGTON -- Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y) has called...
WASHINGTON -- High-speed Internet access is so important to the welfare of U.S. consumers that America can't afford not to offer it -- free of charge -- to anybody who wants it, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin says. "There's a social obligation in making sure everybody can...
Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin yesterday blasted Comcast Corp.'s Internet practices and said the agency's enforcement order against the company would protect consumers and competitors. The controversial order was approved yesterday by a 3-2 vote, with the two Democratic members joining Martin, a Republican appointed by President Bush. Comcast's...
WASHINGTON -- Citizens Against Government Waste CAGW today reacted to news that the Federal Communications Commission FCC will soon rule that the Comcast Corporation violated federal policy when it delayed some Internet traffic in order to manage its network. "To keep traffic flowing for all its Internet subscribers,...
Statement of Steve Largent President and CEO CTIA Committee on House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet February 27, 2008 Good morning, Chairman Markey and Members of the Subcommittee. It is a privilege to be here this morning. Thank you for affording me this...
Last month, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, held a legislative hearing to discuss his draft legislation addressing wireless consumer issues and community broadband services (TelecomWeb wireless, March 7). After being presented with the results of...
Byline: Kara Rowland, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Federal Communications Commission processes most of the 100,000 consumer complaints it receives each year, but the media-regulating agency lacks proper enforcement goals and tracking procedures, according to a government report. "Without key...
I. INTRODUCTIONII. MUST-CARRY'S PURPOSE A. Cable Becomes a Threat to Broadcasting B. FCC. Attempts to Protect Local Broadcasting from Cable C. Objections to the Must-Carry Provisions D. Road to the Modern Must-Carry Law: Century ...
- Do You Hear Me Now? Many years ago, AT & T would not allow any telephone handsets except its own to be connected to its telephone network. Then in 1968 came the FCC "Carterphone" decision, which said that AT & T could...
On the heels of the US. Congress enacting legislation to make pretexting - impersonating an individual to gain access to their personal information without their consent - illegal, the Federal Communications Commission FCC has enacted its own rules to further protect consumers. The FCC issued an order requiring telephone...
For the first time in many years, a full, five-member Federal Communications Commission submitted to heated questioning on Capitol Hill, facing members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, now headed by Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) for a solid two hours. The senator...
The Federal Communications Commission's handling of the $85 billion AT&T-BellSouth merger sets a "new baseline" for protecting the interests of consumers, FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein said in an interview over the weekend. The FCC's approval of the merger on Friday allowed the deal to close immediately. To secure the FCC's...
Anyone who makes or receives telemarketing calls must assure they do business in compliance with state and federal telemarketing regulations. "In the broad spectrum, that means abiding by laws and regulations set forth by the Federal Communications Commission FCC and the Federal Trade Commission FTC in the Telemarketing Sales...
The Federal Communications Commission FCC has gotten an earful (eyeful?) from an eclectic bunch of merger comments on the 2l "conditions and concessions" AT&T proposes in exchange for approval of its BellSouth and Cingular Wireless takeovers worth more than $80 billion in purchase price and debt...
WASHINGTON -- AT&T's $79.3 billion buyout of BellSouth Corp. won Justice Department approval on Wednesday, a decision that sets the stage for further reuniting modernized parts of the old Ma Bell phone monopoly broken up by the government in 1984. The Justice Department approved the deal without...
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department approved AT&T's buyout of BellSouth Corp. on Wednesday, clearing a major hurdle for reuniting two modernized parts of the old Ma Bell phone monopoly that the government broke up in 1984. The decision leaves the Federal Communications Commission as the final hurdle...
With the draft of a sweeping communications-reform bill now heading for joint Senate-House conference resolution (TelecomWeb news break, July 6), local, county and state government forces remain disturbed about the overall federal preemption of authority in the proposed legislation. And their angst over losing power...
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