Federal regulators are considering whether the government should take greater control of the Internet and ask consumers to pay higher phone charges in order to provide all Americans with cheaper access to broadband Internet service.
Verizon Communications Inc. Chairman Ivan Seidenberg on Wednesday had some harsh words for the Federal Communications Commission a day ahead of its planned vote on open Internet rules, adding to what has become a fever pitch of public debate over the proposal.
In the long fight over open Internet, or net neutrality, rules on Internet providers, we’re still essentially in pre-game.
You’d never know it from the flurry of lobbying across the country last week.
If consumer advocates get their way, deconstructing that monthly cellphone bill could become a lot easier.
Comments are filing in to the Federal Communications Commission’s request for input on simplifying wireless bills.
The deadline comes amid a thicket of consumer-focused fee news, from credit cards to overdraft fees. Consumer advocates are arguing for more transparency in billing, both when shopping around for plans and for existing mobile subscribers.
Internet-service providers may be worried about the Federal Communications Commission’s net-neutrality guidelines, but the analysts who cover them?
Not so much. In recent days, more than one has referred to the proposed rules as “a solution in search of a problem.”
Google Inc.’s new phone management service is destined to draw scrutiny from the Federal Communications Commission as the agency struggles to reconcile rotary-phone-era rules for iPhones and BlackBerrys, government and industry officials said.
Senior House Democrats told the Federal Communications Commission Thursday it should do more to stop Internet providers from playing favorites among content providers, brushing aside opposition from Republicans and some large telecom firms.
Earlier this month, Apple rejected an application for the iPhone called Google Voice. The uproar set off a chain of events—Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt resigning from Apple’s board, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigating wireless open access and handset exclusivity—that may finally end the 135-year-old Alexander Graham Bell era. It’s about time.
Late last week, a day before the Federal Communications Commission started to investigate the Google Voice App fiasco, I spoke with the new FCC chairman, Julius Genachowski. He managed to carve out a few minutes from what has been a very busy first month on the job.
Get ready for an excruciatingly inclusive process in figuring out how the government will implement its national broadband strategy.
The news that President Obama has formally nominated Julius Genachowski to chair the Federal Communications Commission has been received with something slightly short of euphoria by a large portion of the broadcasting and telecommunications sector. Over the last eight hours Ars Technica has been deluged with statements of pure, unadulterated happiness about the pick….
A showdown over the billions of dollars traded in the dark underside of the telephone system was postponed on Monday. Kevin Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, had proposed a complex plan to restructure how long distance carriers pay local phone companies to complete calls. Facing opposition from the other four commissioners, Mr. Martin abandoned a vote on the plan scheduled for Tuesday.
As a vote on the question looms, the Federal Communications Commission’s docket continues to fill up with an amazing number of statements, position papers, petitions and pronouncements, all focused on whether the agency should authorize unlicensed devices to pick up and receive wireless broadband via temporarily unused TV channels–aka white space.
Comcast came clean with the Federal Communications Commission late Friday, detailing how it throttled and targeted peer-to-peer traffic–maneuvers it has repeatedly denied.
The cable concern said it indeed hit “particular protocols that were generating disproportionate amounts of traffic.”
The Internet was in crisis. Its electronic “pipes” were clogged with new bandwidth-hogging software. Engineers faced a choice: Allow the Net to succumb to fatal gridlock or find a solution. The year was 1987. About 35,000 people, mainly academics and some government employees, used the Internet.
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