WASHINGTON -- Over the last decade, the cable industry has gone before the Supreme Court several times, on topics including TV-station carriage, editorial control of public and leased-access channels, the blocking of porn channels and the fees paid WASHINGTON -- Over the last decade,...
The FCC adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking NPRM initiating a review of current regulatory requirements for incumbent local exchange carriers' ILECs broadband telecommunications services (CC Docket No. 01-337). The FCC seeks to ensure that th The FCC adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking NPRM initiating...
WASHINGTON -- The cable bar has a new motto: Losing never felt so good. For the second time in three years, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for fire 9th Circuit has said cable-modem service, the cable industry's...
A federal court that once classified cable-modem service as partly a telecommunications service has been picked to decide whether the Federal Communications Commission was right in classifying it as an information service. The selection of th A federal...
The FCC is shirking its duty to make sure high-speed Internet and other advanced telecommunications services are available to all Americans, Montana's Sen. Conrad Bums, a Republican, said last week. The agency is not taking seriously a provision in The FCC is shirking its...
WASHINGTON -- Deciding to wait for the waves to crash its shores, the Federal Communications Commission is unlikely to plunge into the choppy surf that kicked up from the court decision two weeks ago that denied local governments the power to regul WASHINGTON --...
HOUSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 7, 1998--The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has given approval to Telmex-Sprint Communications, L.L.C. to begin providing long-distance service between the U.S., Mexico and other international locations, effective immediately.
WASHINGTON -- It's "what if" time for the cable industry. Cable operators are facing a legal endgame that could require them to open their lines to competing Internet-service providers under regulations that have applied to the Baby WASHINGTON...
SALT LAKE CITY -- Leading VRS provider joins with advocacy groups to foster continued innovation and accessibility of VRS services for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community
TAMPA, Fla. -- Z-Tel Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ/SC: ZTLDC), parent company of Z-Tel Communications, Inc., a leading provider of enhanced wireline and broadband telecommunications services, today responded with both disappointment and optimism to the decision announced earlier today by the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") in association with WC Dockets No. 04-313...
Cable fights for caps on pole-attachment fees; court case could give-winners leg up in broadband provision The cable industry is trying to persuade the Supreme Court to preserve caps on pole-attachment fees, but much more is at stake than the ...
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--May 13, 1996--Loral Space & Communications Ltd. (NYSE:LSP) has received approval from the Federal Communications Commission FCC to build and launch two high-powered telecommunications satellites that will be able to provide a full range of digital voice, data and television services to commercial and individual users in the...
ON FEBRUARY 18th the Federal Communications Commission FCC is holding its latest, and most important, auction of radio spectrum. Two things distinguish this auction from the 15 others it has already held in the past three years or so. One is the sheeON FEBRUARY 18th the Federal...
A Markey staffer says the Telecommunications Act of 1996 defines broadband Internet access as a telecommunications service and not as a cable service. Cable services are subject to local franchising authorities and franchising fees, while telecommu A Markey staffer says the Telecommunications Act of...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The American Public Communications Council, Inc. APCC today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, APCC Services, Inc., the leading billing and collection clearinghouse for independent payphone operators in America, has reached agreements to settle pending litigation against four telecommunications carriers (Compass Global, Woodcliff Lake, NJ; CVT Prepaid...
The Federal Communications Commission has delayed indefinitely a previously scheduled vote on a controversial overhaul of telecommunications rules. That is good news for rural Oklahomans still awaiting cellular and broadband services and for the companies that would like to provide it. On Monday,...
Poll Results Show Widespread Support for the Postponement of November 4th FCC Vote WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- An overwhelming 74 percent of likely voters oppose the pending FCC proposal to restructure the telecommunications industry on November 4, according to a national survey conducted by The Tarrance...
Federal regulators have quietly scheduled a vote to overhaul the nation's telecommunications industry on Nov. 4 - the day most other Americans will be preoccupied with the vote for the next president of the United States. David LaFuria, general counsel and spokesman for a group called...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- A Verizon Communications senior executive is calling on the Federal Communications Commission to "facilitate the transition to the broadband world" by adopting intercarrier compensation and universal-service reform this year. The current "arcane system" that pays carriers for the exchange of traffic is...
Regional Telecom Companies Urge the FCC to 'Stop the Vote' on a Plan that Could Harm Rural Consumers and Businesses WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Coalition for Affordable Communications CAC, today applauded the letter sent by The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners NARUC to the...
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