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AT&T Takeover Deal Sounds Like A Lose-Lose For Innovation, Consumers
March 22, 2011
AT&T has proposed a lose-lose deal for consumers with its plans to grow even bigger with its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile for $39 billion. Consumers, industry and innovation will all lose if A...
AT&T Takeover Deal Sounds Like A Lose-Lose For Innovation, Consumers
March 22, 2011
AT&T has proposed a lose-lose deal for consumers with its plans to grow even bigger with its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile for $39 billion. Consumers, industry and innovation will all lose if A...
The National Broadband Plan After One Year
March 18, 2011
The FCC’s National Broadband Plan, released on March 17, 2010, turned a year old this week. Although the Plan is designed around a ten-year timeframe, as PC Mag notes, you have to start somew...
Clinton, ICANN Address Future Of Internet
March 17, 2011
President Clinton spoke last night at the 40th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), currently convening in San Francisco. He urged the members of the internati...
U.S. IP Czar Proposes Limits on Civil Rights and Liberties to Protect Big Content
March 16, 2011
The White House’s IP czar Victoria Espinel is calling on Congress to further expand and toughen U.S. intellectual property law, which is already among the most sweeping and strictest in the world....
FCC To Act On Data Roaming In April?
March 14, 2011
Sprint, T-Mobile and associations representing rural wireless carriers are asking the FCC to put action on data roaming on its April agenda. In its National Broadband Plan released almost a year ago, ...
Latest Trade Hold Up — Lack Of Trust, Not Will
March 10, 2011
USTR Ron Kirk testified yesterday before the Senate Finance Committee on the President’s 2011 Trade Agenda and the three pending free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama.Disagreem...
House Communications Subcommittee Expected To Register Disapproval of FCC’s Rules To Ensure Customers’ Open Internet Access
March 9, 2011
Months after the FCC’s December vote to approve the Open Internet Order we’re still talking about net neutrality. Nonstop.
The House Committee on Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Communica...
House Communications Subcommittee Expected To Register Disapproval of FCC's Rules To Ensure Customers' Open Internet Access
March 9, 2011
Months after the FCC’s December vote to approve the Open Internet Order we’re still talking about net neutrality. Nonstop.
The House Committee on Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Communicatio...
CCIA Supports Risch-Udall Amendment To Patent Reform Bill
March 7, 2011
The Computer & Communications Industry Association has sent a letter to Senators Monday morning, asking them to support an amendment to promote real reform in S. 23, which is up for a vote. CCIA...
British Library Hosts Copyright For Creativity Event
March 3, 2011
The British Library hosted a ‘Copyright for Creativity’ (C4C) event in London with Members of European Parliament (MEPs) and UK Members of Parliament (MPs) Feb 10. The goal was to highlight and un...