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The FCC Finds Verizon's Termination Fee Defense "Troubling"
Verizon's been defending its ridiculous $350 smartphone early termination fee to the FCC, but those folks aren't having any of it. In fact, the five-person committee dealing with the issue thinks Verizon's answers are "unsatisfying and, in some cases, troubling." More »Verizon Defends $350 Early Termination Fee to the FCC
Have you guys heard? Verizon needs to charge a $350 ETF on smartphones to survive! Otherwise they won't be able to pay for their network! Wait...that doesn't make any sense. More »What Could Sony's Leaked Home Information Device Be Used For?
It's not everyday that we get a corker of a device turning up on the FCC database like this. It comes from Sony land, and is called the HID-C10 Home Information Device. Catchy. More »Google Nexus One Phone Gets FCC Detailing
Less than 24 hours after Google employees were gifted Nexus One Google phones, and started twitpic-ing them, the handset has turned up on FCC's site with a few of the specs detailed. More »FCC: Whoops, CableCARD Was a Total Disaster
Yesterday the FCC admitted that CableCARD—a system originally designed to open up the market for video content—is a failure. Here's what they're doing to fix it. More »FCC Heroes Get Into the Verizon ETF Pile-On
First, a senator introduced a bill aimed at keeping Verizon from jacking their early-termination fees to $350. Now the FCC want's to know just how they're justifying this bullshit. More »Database Created by FCC for Devices Using White Space Spectrum
MPAA Still Trying to Plug Your Analog Hole with Selectable Output Control
Still use component connections with your cable box? Listen up: the MPAA has again asked the FCC to let studios disable analog connections during certain on-demand movies. The FCC currently bans this, and here's why that's a good thing. More »1.4 Million People Have Google Voice, But Not That Many Actually Use It
Google Voice Is Only Blocking Like 100 Numbers Now
Google Voice has gone from blocking a decent swath of phone numbers—ranging from sex chat lines to nuns to some simply rural digits—to around 100. More »Losing Net Neutrality: The Worst Case Scenario
It's alarmist, over-the-top pro-net-neutrality propaganda, sure, but this chart goes a long way to explaining why the IT dude at the office wears that "All Packets are Created Equal" shirt to work every Thursday: because tiered ISPs are scary. More »FCC May Reclaim Some Digital TV Airwaves to Boost Wireless Broadband Bandwidth
You've heard lots about the FCC and net neutrality, but they're also working on another important problem: mobile broadband is growing faster than wireless providers have expansion room to cater for. What the FCC calls the "looming spectrum gap". More »Week In Review: Apple, Microsoft, Nook and More—It Was Nuts
What didn't happen this week? We saw the Windows 7 release, new Apple hardware, Barnes & Noble's ereader, the beginnings of major net neutrality legislation and more. It was so crazy, we thought we'd round up all the highlights. More »AT&T Compatible Motorola Droid Sneaks Into FCC Documents
Among recent FCC filings is one for a Motorola Sholes aka Droid listing the bands used by AT&T (WCDMA 850/1900/2100) as well as GSM 850/900/1800/1900. This makes the phone compatible with both AT&T and Rogers. [FCC via Mobile Crunch]John McCain's "Internet Freedom Act" Seeks to Block FCC's Net Neutrality Rules
When the FCC voted to formalize net neutrality guidelines yesterday, it took minutes for the cable industry to bitch about plans to forbid them (and wireless carriers) from selectively blocking types of Internet use. Surprise! McCain's not a fan either. More »The Totally Predictable Cable Industry Response to the FCC's Net Neutrality Plan
FCC: We're Going to Make Net Neutrality the Law
More Net Neutrality Bashing From Verizon CEO
The FCC is expected to start submitting net neutrality regulation tomorrow, and Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg isn't happy about it. He says the FCC's net neutrality proposals will kill innovation and profits for providers. More »AT&T "Encourages" Employees and Their Families to Complain to the FCC About Net Neutrality [Updated]
Remember the Comcastard-stacked FCC hearing on BitTorrent? AT&T thinks that's a good strategy, since AT&T's main lobbyist sent a letter to300,000 employeesU.S. managers "encouraging" them and their families to protest the FCC's net neutrality rules. Updated More »AT&T: Google Is So Evil, They Even Block Calls to Nuns
The AT&T vs. Google Voice debate has gotten much more interesting/entertaining, thanks to a letter from AT&T to the FCC, loudly trashing Google—and even the FCC themselves, for allowing Google to run rampant. There's some serious animosity here. More »Google Says They Gotta Block Some Numbers to Keep Google Voice Free
Here's one way for Google to keep people on their side in their tussle with the FCC, egged on by AT&T: Say that the only way to keep Google Voice free is to block those pricey calls to certain numbers. More »