Topic: Federal Communications Commission

It was the narrowest of Republican margins in the U.S. Senate that doomed a crucial vote on Net neutrality earlier this year. "Clearly, we're going to have to address the question of network neutrality," Rep. John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, told reporters ...
The incoming Democratic chairman of a key congressional committee that oversees telecommunications policy says he didn't mean to suggest that federal regulators delay their decision on the pending merger between AT&T and BellSouth until the new Congress files in. Michigan Rep. John ...
It was the narrowest of Republican margins in the U.S. Senate that doomed a crucial vote on Net neutrality earlier this year. "Clearly, we're going to have to address the question of network neutrality," Rep. John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, told reporters ...

Net neutrality's tackling unlikely

The U.S. Congress may take another crack at net neutrality and related broadband legislation when it returns from a month-long recess next week, but some observers aren't laying odds on either package passing.. Supporters of the broadband bill had hoped to get ...
A legislative proposal to revive a controversial anticopying system known as the broadcast flag cleared a U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday, despite misgivings from some senators. House members scheduled a Tuesday afternoon hearing to explore the issue. The Federal Communications Commission attempted ...
Net neutrality provisions criticized by Internet companies in a sweeping U.S. Senate proposal could be getting a makeover. Sen. Ted Stevens, the Alaska Republican who serves as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, said Wednesday that he plans to release a revised ...
A U.S. Senate committee on Thursday approved a bill that would outlaw the practice of posing as a telephone or mobile phone customer to obtain phone records.. The bill directs the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to create phone-record regulations similar to ...
Universities, libraries and technology companies are asking a federal court to block controversial wiretap rules designed to facilitate police surveillance of the Internet. In a 71-page brief sent to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, they ask the ...