Tag: Federal Communications Commission

The FCC has already moved to weaken the broadband privacy rules. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

Beltway Confidential

Who needs net neutrality when the Internet is working just fine?

Demri Scott · February 2, 2019 5:00 am

Two easy, uncontroversial steps toward bridging the broadband gap

Betsy Huber · January 18, 2019 3:08 pm

Magazine - Washington Briefing

Dems push for Internet ‘Bill of Rights’

Steven Nelson · January 4, 2019 5:01 am

A demonstrator opposed to the roll back of net neutrality rules holds a sign outside the Federal Communications Commission headquarters ahead of an open commission meeting in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017.

Beltway Confidential

A year after net neutrality’s demise, the Internet is faster

Philip Wegmann · December 14, 2018 5:53 pm

Tribune lands $6.4 billion buyer after Sinclar takeover’s collapse

James Langford · December 3, 2018 6:00 pm

AT&T streaming could be nightmare scenario for ‘Open Internet’ activists

Steven Nelson · November 13, 2018 5:00 am

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced last week that the FCC would roll back "net neutrality," which led to many complaints from Democrats. But they need to answer this: Why is it better for the federal government rather than customers to decide how networks should handle data? (Federal Communications Commission via Wikimedia Commons)

Beltway Confidential

Finally, the FCC is cracking down on caller ID spoofing

Tiana Lowe Doescher · November 6, 2018 10:17 pm

Sammi LeMaster, left, and Katherine Fuchs, right, carry the top of an alarm clock display that reads "Net Neutrality" down 12th Street SW to their truck after a protest at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, where the FCC is scheduled to meet and vote on net neutrality. The vote scheduled today, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, at the FCC could usher in big changes in how Americans use the internet, a radical departure from more than a decade of federal oversight.

Supreme Court declines to hear challenges to Obama-era net neutrality rules

Melissa Quinn · November 5, 2018 4:44 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Progressive groups urge FCC to block Sprint, T-Mobile merger

Joe Williams · November 1, 2018 5:24 pm

President Donald Trump walks out of the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018, and heads to Marine One on the South Lawn for the short trip to Andrews Air Force Base. Trump is traveling to Montana, Arizona and Nevada.

How to improve Trump’s regulatory budget

James Broughel · October 26, 2018 4:00 am

Drones are already being used to study whales in the oceans, to monitor hard-to-access ecosystems, to affordably plant trees in depleted forests, and for an array of military purposes. (Sanjit Das/Bloomberg)

National Security

Drones swamp US-Mexico border but federal agents powerless to stop them

Anna Giaritelli · October 13, 2018 3:03 am

Sammi LeMaster, left, and Katherine Fuchs, right, carry the top of an alarm clock display that reads "Net Neutrality" down 12th Street SW to their truck after a protest at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, where the FCC is scheduled to meet and vote on net neutrality. The vote scheduled today, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, at the FCC could usher in big changes in how Americans use the internet, a radical departure from more than a decade of federal oversight.

California AG blasts ‘power brokers’ suit against net neutrality law

James Langford · October 3, 2018 9:46 pm