Some lawmakers still concerned about universal service Insisting that it's still interested in the phone business, the cable industry last week applauded the FCC's vast rewrite of telephone service and pricing rules. "We're pleased ...
CATV prefers uniform national regulations, while LECs want states to be in charge able and telephone lawyers are launching their battle over the $100 billion local telephone business. Responding to a proposal that FCC Chairman Reed Hundt has said CATV prefers uniform...
Oct. 11--The Federal Communications Commission has thrown its support behind Indiana and four other Midwestern states that are grappling with how to force Ameritech Corp. to fix widespread local telephone service problems in the region. Oct. 11--The Federal Communications Commission has thrown its ...
WASHINGTON - In the weeks ahead, federal regulators will make key decisions affecting cable's ability to compete in the local phone business. Cable operators, long-distance companies, the Baby Bells and competitive access providers are all fighti WASHINGTON - In the weeks ahead,...
In last month's column, I talked about the Universal Service Fund created by the FCC to support service to high-cost, rural areas and to subsidize modernization of networking/telecom for rural health care, libraries and K-12 educational facilities. T In last month's column, I talked about the...
The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week intensified efforts to push the Federal Communications Commission toward a new approach to the allocation of area codes and prefixes throughout the U.S. and elsewhere in North America. The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week ...
FCC approves GTE Air Fone air-to-ground license STAMFORD - The Federal Communications Commission has granted GTE Airfone a nationwide air-to-ground telephone service license. The company has been operating the service - the first of its kind - under FCC approves GTE Air Fone air-to-ground license...
By Vikas Bajaj, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Vikas Bajaj, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Coalition for Affordable Communications Will Work Expeditiously to Reach Solutions that Reflect the Interests of Rural Consumers WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The Coalition for Affordable Communications CAC today issued the following statement in response to the Federal Communications Commission's FCC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding Inter-carrier...
Since joining Pioneer Telephone Cooperative as a telephone operator in 1990, Toni Pickle's leadership abilities have helped push her way up the corporate ladder. Today, she serves as manager of rural education and economic development for the Kingfisher- based company. As a division manager, Pickle directs...
A recent court ruling challenges the FCC's declaration regarding prior consent and cell phones There is no question that cellular phones have become a ubiquitous component to everyday American life. Each day, more consumers are replacing their landlines with cellular phones. According to CTIA, the association for...
By Steve Effros Smoke screens, head fakes, misdirection plays and sleight-of-hand. Nope, not just on battlefields, playing fields or as part of a magic act. These are the normal tactics used in just about every political campaign, and not just those in which someone is...
SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Google wants US regulators to sign off on a plan to pack wireless Internet services into "TV white space" left empty as buffer zones between television broadcasting frequencies. Google on Monday sent the Federal Communications Commission its pitch to use TV white space for...
Why would the operators of websites like hotlivesexchat.com, allfreecalls.net, and freecalls2theworld.com route phone calls to their services through rural American towns like Riceville, Iowa? To take advantage of complicated telecommunications regulations and make a bundle of money from American consumers of long-distance telephone calls. The Federal Communications Commission...
The Federal Communications Commission is making a lot of right moves in the seemingly never-ending battle to get cable companies to respond to their markets. Today, the FCC is expected to enact a rule that would prohibit apartment buildings from signing exclusive contracts with individual cable providers,...
In-Depth Look at "The Next-Generation MVNOs from Telecom, Media, and Computer Industries" WASHINGTON -- The Besen Group, an international mobile data industry management consulting practice, today announced a new Telephone Consultation Service to next-generation MVNOs, specifically for chief executive officers or executives responsible for wireless operations. ...
US National Telecom Yi Wan Group (PINKSHEETS: YIWA) reports that it has entered negotiations to purchase a majority ofthe shares of Dash911 Solutions, Inc., a privately held Delawarecorporation. Formed in 2005, Dash911 Solutions, Inc. was one of the firstproviders of E911 emergency calling services for VoIP telecom providers.Terms of the...
There's a lot of misinformation going around that sounds as if every TV set in the States will go dark on February 17, 2009. That's the day the FCC has mandated that local TV stations can no longer transmit analog signals. They'll only be allowed to ...
WASHINGTON AFP — The mercenary US mobile telephone market faces a rough shake-up after authorities set new rules for auctioning airwaves, boosting users' freedom to switch providers and access the Internet by phone. The Federal Communications Commission FCC has approved the rules to come into force next January,...
- 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...
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