The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to open nearly 11 gigahertz of high-frequency spectrum for the roll out of “5G” mobile, flexible and fixed-use broadband wireless that may be 100 times faster than 4G.
the FCC wants to unlock the “set-top box” that brings cable television into your home, so you won’t have to rent those boxes from the cable companies any more.
President Obama promoted FCC plans “to remove the barriers to competition that prevent new players from offering innovative cable box options to consumers” by arguing that “A thriving private sector is the lifeblood of our economy” and “competition is good
Ajit Pai, one of the two Republicans on the five-member FCC, says a $51 million fraud investigation into the Lifeline cell-phone welfare program was kept hidden until after a key vote to expand the program was held.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has launched an inquiry into the state of diverse programming on television, seeking to determine whether independent programmers face undue burdens in gaining carriage from traditional cable operators and other multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs).
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai warned about the erosion of free speech in an interview with the Washington Examiner on Tuesday, making a crucial point about how a generation comfortable with thuggish intimidation on campuses and the Internet will have a weak immune system against the virus of official censorship. Liberty is a habit, which Pai perceptively warned we are losing.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz has spoken out against the government’s regulation of the Internet through net neutrality in a video message Breitbart Tech can exclusively share with readers.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio has spoken out against the government’s regulation of the Internet through net neutrality in a video message Breitbart Tech can exclusively share with readers.
The FCC is bringing net neutrality to court today in another attempt to secure regulation on why and how internet service providers can manipulate the access they provide.
An influential activist who met with members of the Obama Administration to promote net neutrality campaigned on behalf of a convicted Al Qaeda supporter, Breitbart Tech can reveal.
On Tuesday, at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) inquired if the Federal Communications Commission has the power to shut down websites used by the Islamic State and other terrorist groups.
Armstrong Williams, the conservative commentator and long-time business manager for GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson, is now also the leading African-American owner of television stations in America.
In a controversial vote Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission approved a plan to “Ensuring Just, Reasonable, & Fair Rates for Inmate Calling” and would place a cap on the amount of money that communications companies charge convicts to make phone calls in jails and prisons across the country.
Hispanic advocacy organization National Council of La Raza (NCLR) has slammed NBC for inviting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to host an upcoming episode of Saturday Night Live.
As the effects of Net Neutrality have begun to appear in the tech industry, California’s Employment Development Department reports that the government created more jobs than the private sector did in the Bay Area in August.
One of the nation’s most successful broadcasters and journalists, Armstrong Williams, Chairman of Howard Stirk Holdings Journalism Foundation, Inc., is teaming up with Coastal Carolina University to sponsor a new intern program aimed at helping students from disadvantaged backgrounds get their start in the field of journalism.
The media silence was deafening on Friday as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched “Net Neutrality” regulations–possibly the most far-reaching and intrusive regulatory action of the 21st century.
The cell phone industry sued Berkeley this week over a new ordinance it issued requiring that consumers be warned that carrying a switched-on phone in their pockets or bra might exceed federal radiation safety standards.
Over the weekend Federal Communications Commission (FCC) member Ajit Pai said he anticipates that, as a result of the passage of net neutrality regulations, federal regulators will attempt to control political websites – such as the Drudge Report – through the FCC or Federal Elections Commission (FEC).
Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee is firing back at President Obama for his Federal Communications Commission (FCC) led internet takeover.
The Wall Street Journal recently published a strange piece called “Why Cable TV Beats the Internet, For Now.” Despite pay-TV losing 1.4 million customers last year, it seems the WSJ is device-challenged and unwilling to embrace the obvious future dominance of Internet streaming media. And the war to discount your cost for pay-TV is heating up.
Democrat members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are now admitting that new net neutrality regulations may allow them to determine pricing for Internet service, an admission that’s seen as “a vindication to critics of the new Internet rules, who have long warned that the agency’s powers will give it unprecedented control over the Web,” according to a report from The Hill.
FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly (R) criticized the process of notifying commissioners about decisions made by the agency and its bureaus, saying “it’s a courtesy they’re letting me know what they’re going to do. And I just think that’s the wrong
Columnist Charles Krauthammer dubbed the FCC’s newly released Internet rules “the Full Employment Act of Telecom Lawyers and Lobbyists” on Thursday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. “The heart of the regulation is that the Internet providers have to
Thursday on Newsmax TV’s “MidPoint,” Sen. John Thune (R-SD) explained he is working on a six-page bill and getting support from Democrats on Capitol Hill to stop the FCC’s now-passed net neutrality plan, which turns the Internet into a utility
On the day that the House prepared to collapse and pass a DHS bill that funds President Obama’s executive amnesty, some lawmakers are talking tough about the FCC’s “net neutering” actions last week. But they haven’t offered any proposals to push back.
The hard-Left publication The Nation and their allies advocated for the FCC’s “Net Neutrality” passage to regulate and tax the Internet as “People Power”. But in politics, it is always best to “follow the money.” For 2014, lobbying expenditures by computer/Internet companies hit $139.5 million. The Left likes to talk about “People Power”, but Silicon Valley lobbying cash is “Corporate Power.”
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai (R) said that new FCC regulations will make “state, property, and other taxes go up” on providers and the “immediate effects in some of the taxation are going to be severe” on Friday’s “Bloomberg West.” “Decisions
The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Communications Committee has welcomed the vote by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allow the government to take control over the Internet.
After the FCC votes to regulate the internet, an economist gives CPAC a slogan: oppose Net Neutering.
Verizon, prepared for the FCC decision to embrace “net-neutrality” rules on Thursday, had a ready response once the decision became final. The company issued a press release mocking the new standard by dating the press release February 26, 1934, and titling it, “Title II Regulations a ‘Net’ Loss for Innovation and Consumers: FCC’s ‘Throwback Thursday’ Move Imposes 1930s Rules on the Internet.”
FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly (R), who was nominated to serve on the FCC by President Obama said that new FCC regulations “far [exceed] any type of situation that would be present under the net neutrality debate. We have given the power
Internet service providers like Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile now must act in the “public interest” when providing a mobile connection to your home or phone, under rules approved Thursday by a divided Federal Communications Commission.
Thursday at the Federal Communications Commission meeting on open Internet rules and access to broadband Internet, Commissioner Ajit Pai made a statement before the FCC vote to take unprecedented control over the internet with a secret plan. Transcript as follows:
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted to approve a wildly controversial Net Neutrality policy that will regulate and tax the Internet intensely, much like the old AT&T telephone monopoly. To help secure political support, Chairman Tom Wheeler made last-minute revisions at the request of Google, according to Politico’s sources at the Commission.
On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on strict new regulations for the Internet, and because the FCC is controlled by Democrats, Barack Obama’s plans for more government control of online traffic may well come true.
Dallas Mavericks owner and investor Mark Cuban predicted that proposed FCC Internet regulations will end up impacting TV and “your TV as you know it is over” on Thursday’s “Squawk Alley” on CNBC. Cuban began by predicting “the courts will
Bill de Blasio comes out strongly in favor of Net Neutrality regulations he hasn’t read because, apparently, they’re all about the children. What could go wrong?
The left-leaning ‘Electronic Frontier Foundation’ (EFF) came out with “guns-a-blazin’” Wednesday morning at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in an open letter: “Dear FCC: Rethink The Vague “General Conduct” Rule.”
Wednesday, fresh off her Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the FCC’s attempt to seize control of the internet by non-elected commissioners passing a 332-page secret plan, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said the FCC is attempting to apply 1930’s era
