Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and John Thune (R-SD) rolled out a plan that, if passed, would dramatically reshape the economics of television. The idea is to unbundle broadcast programming so that individual consumers could pick -- and pay for directly -- only the channels that they want to watch.
E-mail privacy act has votes to pass House
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According to legislators and others, a bill protecting e-mail privacy has enough votes to pass in the House if it is brought up for a vote. The Email Privacy Act has 218 o-sponsors, according to the Computer & Communications Industry Association, whose members include Microsoft, Google and eBay, as well as Dish, Aereo, Sprint and T-Mobile.
A Cable Merger Too Far
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There are good reasons the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission should block Comcast’s $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable.
FCC failing on its No. 1 priority
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For more than a decade, the Federal Communications Commission has been failing to protect the public interest and strengthen the nation's broadband infrastructure.
What to make of Obama’s tepid response on network neutrality
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Nearly a decade after he vociferously defended an Internet that didn't speed up Web traffic to Fox or slow traffic to BarackObama.com, President Barack Obama's stance on network neutrality has considerably softened.
Wake up, FCC: The Internet Protocol transition is now
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Some 45 years after design work started on the cellular network and the Internet, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued an Internet Protocol (IP) Technology ransitions Order amounting to a reluctant invitation for trials on the decommissioning of the legacy telephone network.
FCC’s Wheeler is No Shrinking Violet
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler does not think small.