It looks like Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will get to keep his job for another five years, despite protests from Democrats. The US Senate voted 55-41 Thursday to advance his nomination. A final vote to approve the nomination is expected Monday. Republicans have enough votes to reconfirm Pai, whose term expired in June. …
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AT&T is trying to take the fight over the Obama-era net neutrality rules to the US Supreme Court. On Thursday, AT&T, the cable industry group NCTA, and CenturyLink filed separate appeals asking the court to overturn the controversial 2015 rules. A federal appeals court last year upheld the rules, which were passed by a Democrat-controlled FCC and supported by President …
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For the first time in eight years, the Federal Communications Commission has declared the mobile wireless market to be competitive. FCC The findings were outlined in the FCC’s 20th annual report on the state of the mobile wireless market. The FCC is required by Congress to examine the state of competition in the wireless market each year. Previous reports, under …
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The deadline to voice your concern over the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to unwind net neutrality rules is fast approaching. The period for public comments ends at midnight Eastern Time on Wednesday. Over 21.8 million comments have been filed with the agency on its “Restoring Internet Freedom” proposal. That’s more than five times the number of comments filed before the …
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Three years ago CNET addressed whoever might step into Mozilla‘s then-empty CEO slot and asked 10 questions about the future of the nonprofit organization behind the Firefox browser. It was a chaotic time, with Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich quitting after a controversy over his stance on gay marriage, and Google‘s Chrome increasing its threat as the browser of choice for …
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The Federal Communications Commission is back to five members for the first time since President Donald Trump took office following a Senate vote Thursday that confirmed Jessica Rosenworcel and Brendan Carr as commissioners. This is Rosenworcel’s second stint at the FCC. She served as an FCC commissioner under the administration, but her tenure lapsed at the end of last year. …
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The public is fired up about net neutrality. More than 10 million comments have been filed at the Federal Communications Commission on a proposal to roll back net neutrality regulations. That’s more than twice as many comments as were filed two years ago when the FCC was considering the current rules. The Republican-led FCC introduced a proposal in May to roll …
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The White House on Tuesday got behind the Federal Communication Commission’s plan to roll back net neutrality regulations. “We support the FCC chair’s efforts to review and consider rolling back these rules, and believe that the best way to get fair rules for everyone is for Congress to take action and create regulatory and economic certainty,” said Deputy Press Secretary …
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Millions of people have answered a call to support the Federal Communications Commission’s existing net neutrality rules. But will that be enough to convince the agency to back off of its plan to kill them? In response to the planned overhaul, the Republican-led FCC has received a record-breaking 7.4 million comments — nearly double the amount it received in 2014 when it …
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Apparently, supporters for net neutrality have spoken. Fight for the Future, a nonprofit activist group that helped organize Wednesday’s “Day of Action” online protest, said Thursday the Federal Communications Commission received more than 2 million comments urging to keep a free and open internet. That total nearly triples a similar action protesters took during an “Internet Slow Down Day” in Sept. …
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