America’s tech sector remains unrivaled around the world — a true bright spot in our otherwise stagnant economy. That’s the message I took away from the Consumer Electronics Show last week, where I met some of America’s best and brightest tech leaders and innovators. (more)
The US Supreme Court is set to hear oral argument on Tuesday in a case that examines whether tougher indecency standards enforced against broadcast television companies in recent years violate free speech protections of the First Amendment. (more)
The Federal Communications Commission agreed to propose easing limits on one owner holding a television station and newspaper in a top 20 U.S. market. (more)
LightSquared is done with the government’s hemming and hawing, and is pressuring for approval to use its spectrum to build a next-generation wireless network. (more)
The technology industry is upset over a bill that would muck up the whole Internet just to keep people from illegally downloading copyrighted stuff like movies. But the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) is not the only dumb idea politicians have had about technology. (more)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — AT&T Inc. is hanging up on its $39 billion bid to buy smaller wireless provider T-Mobile USA, nearly four months after the U.S. government raised concerns that it would raise prices, reduce innovation and give customers fewer choices. (more)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shush, already. That’s the message the Federal Communications Commission is sending with new rules that force broadcast, cable and satellite companies to turn down the volume on blaring TV commercials. (more)
LightSquared has submitted a significant new offer to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in its bid to use frequencies near the GPS band for a cellular data network. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Friday it wants to withdraw or postpone its antitrust case against the proposed merger between AT&T Inc. and smaller rival T-Mobile USA now that the two companies no longer have a valid application to approve the deal. (more)
The network TV home of Glee and Family Guy, will square off against the Federal Communications Commission in a Supreme Court battle over decency standards in January. Fox, which touts its shows as “So brash, so bold, so Fox,” is expected to argue that FCC-imposed fines for indecency are unconstitutiona
It’s complicated between AT&T and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski. (more)
1.) Holder the Scolder, out in the cold — Now that Eric Holder has harangued the Daily Caller for reporting things he’d prefer we didn’t report, everything’s fine and nobody’s being mean to him anymore, right? Wellllll… TheDC’s Matthew Boyle reports: (more)
Two left-leaning FCC commissioners slammed AT&T’s proposed purchase of T-Mobile on Tuesday and suggested the deal should be scrapped. (more)
(Reuters) – Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) may be forced to sell assets closer to home and take a knife to its cost base if its $39 billion deal to sell T-Mobile USA to AT&T (T.N) collapses. (more)
AT&T and T-Mobile USA’s parent company, Deutsche Telekom, withdrew applications for Federal Communications Commission approval of their controversial and highly contested $39 billion merger Wednesday. The telecommunications giants made the decision to temporarily withdraw from the approval process one day after FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced that he would seek an additional hearing that threatened to sink the proposed merger. (more)
U.S. regulators made clear how deep their opposition runs to AT&T Inc.’s proposed $39 billion deal to acquire T-Mobile USA, saying AT&T must face an extra review next year that could eat up months even if the company wins an antitrust trial
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The unusual decision by the Federal Communications Commission to call the extra hearing—its first such move in nine years—adds a new roadblock and forces AT&T to consider an unpalatable range of options. (more)
The Federal Communications Commission says that its plan to bring broadband Internet to the countryside will produce 500,000 jobs over the next six years. (more)
Nov. 8 (Bloomberg) — China Telecom Corp. plans to start selling a wireless service to U.S. consumers under its own brand early next year, seeking to sign up Chinese-Americans, students and tourists who travel often between the two countries. (more)
The Campaign Legal Center and the Sunlight Foundation last week supported the FCC’s proposed requirement for full disclosure of broadcast campaign ad funding. Both organizations acknowledge recent funding from prominent progressive foundations while either publishing research in support of the FCC’s proposed rule change or actually petitioning the FCC for the change. (more)
Demand for wireless networks is growing rapidly and will soon outstrip capacity, according to a report from the Global Information Industry Center at the University of California, San Diego. (more)
