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FCC Defends Authority To Loosen Newspaper/Broadcast Cross-Ownership

[Source: Broadcasting & Cable, by John Eggerton, July 21, 2010]
The FCC Wednesday filed a brief with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals defending its authority under then-Chairman Kevin Martin to loosen the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership ban.The ...

Future of Music Coalition Comments in the FCC's Broadband Legal Framework Proceedings

[Source: Future of Music Coalition, July 15, 2010]
Musicians and other creators depend on open internet platforms and access to broadband technologyOn July 15, 2010 Future of Music Coalition filed comments (download below) in the FCC’s Notice of ...

Free Speech for Broadcasters, Too

[Source: The New York Times, by Editorial, July 16, 2010]
Some private functions of the body can be described on broadcast television, but not others. Some four-letter expletives can be said on the air at 10:05 p.m., but not at 9:55 p.m. Characters in ...

How Should the FCC Regulate Broadband? A Roundup of ‘Third Way’ Comments

[Source: BroadbandBreakfast.com, by Rahul Gaitonde, July 16, 2010]
WASHINGTON July 16, 2010 – After the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision upholding Comcast’s ability to thwart broadband traffic over the peer-to-peer file-sharing software BitTorrent, the ...

Rural Wireless Companies Tell FCC to Unlock Phones

[Source: Washington Post, by Cecilia Kang, July 15, 2010]
Japanese cellphone giant NTT Docomo said last week it will begin to offer unlocked phones to its customers next spring, a move that has rural U.S. wireless carriers asking the Federal ...

Key Legislation Addressing America's Competitiveness and Innovation

[Source: The Benton Foundation]
In the midst of a troubling economic crisis, the 111th Congress will consider a number of bills that attempt to reshape the nation's economy for the digital age. Central to these efforts is the ...

FCC Broadband Plan Will Put US in "Second Tier of Countries"

[Source: ArsTechnica, by Nate Anderson, July 9, 2010]
Even the oldest US Senators have gotten the message—the US wants fast broadband. And they have started to ask FCC Chair Julius Genachowski some hard questions about why the new National Broadband ...

A 'Public Option' for Broadband?

[Source: PCWorld, by Mark Sullivan, June 30, 2010]
When it comes to broadband, I’m a socialist. Why? Because broadband service in the United States is currently provided by a cableco/telco duopoly, and, as such, is slower and more expensive than ...

Hacking the Policy Space

[Source: CultureWork, by Helen De Michiel]
I am sitting with a group of public media and community arts leaders at a recent lunch meeting hosted by Charles Benton, CEO of The Benton Foundation. We are here for the annual media reform ...