Google releases full details of FCC investigation into Street View WiFi snooping
Google has released the full report of the Federal Communications Commission’s investigation into the company’s collection of "payload data" from millions of business and residential WiFi networks, says the ...
Major U.S. Carriers Agree To Help Fight “Bill Shock” By Implementing A Free Alert System
We’ve all been there, that moment when the bill for that great mobile plan you signed up for comes in. Monthly access charges, usage charges, surcharges, taxes, governmental surcharges & fees — the list goes on… and on… and on. The FCC and others...Rush Limbaugh and the revenge of old media
The great slugfest over Rush Limbaugh's infamous "slut" comment against law student Sandra Fluke has come and mostly gone. For anyone who has been in a coma over the last fortnight,...
Desperate LightSquared claims 5th Amendment violation, demands new spectrum
An increasingly desperate LightSquared today accused the Federal Communications Commission of violating its constitutional property rights by rejecting its application to build a 4G network on spectrum adjacent to that used b...
Level 3 protests Verizon, AT&T “lock-up” data connection deals
The great subscriber access war between Level 3 and Comcast has receded into the background, but Level 3 has plenty of other business before the Federal Communications Commission. Here's an issue...
Will The Internet Separate?
The Internet has been a relatively unregulated zone of international freedom the entire time it’s been used by the general public. In America, we take this freedom for granted as the Internet has always been that way, we invented it, and in America, ...
Feature: Why LightSquared failed: It was science, not politics
The seeds of LightSquared's failure to win government clearance to build a 4G-LTE network can, ironically, be found in the "approval" the company received just 13 months ago.
In January 2011, the Federal Communications Co......
Happy Valentine’s Day: US government breaks up with LightSquared
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said today that it will not approve LightSquared's proposal to build a national 4G-LTE network, after testing showed that the network would interfere with most existing GPS devices.
Th...
Google testing Google-manufactured personal communication device
Google is testing its own "next generation personal communication device," according to a document submitted to the FCC. Google is seeking the FCC's permission to test the device outside its labs on Bluetooth and WiFi networks in...
AT&T CEO: Recent price jacks due to AT&T’s attempt to monopolize GSM in US
AT&T has a grudge with the Federal Communications Commission, and during the mobile carrier’s quarterly earnings call today, CEO Randall Stephenson criticized the FCC over spectrum availability and the bombed acquisition of T-Mobile USA, with him further claiming AT&T’s spectrum crux is forcing jacked prices against its highest data users. The American Telephone and Telegraph...
Verizon announces then kills extra $2 fee to pay bill by phone or online
Good news for iPhone owners on the Verizon network. A day after announcing a plan to charge customers a $2.00 fee for telephone and online bill payments the plan has vanished without a trace.
Could it be the announcement today from the U.S. Fede...
