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Cable Elite Watching AOL-Time Warner Progress
News Some industry luminaries are fretting under the watchful eye of three different regulatory bodies, including the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice.
[November 30, 2000, 15:31]
Regulators Fear AOL-Time Warner Merger
News Back in July, Time Warner chief Gerald Levin appeared before a Federal Communications Commission hearing -- pledging that his company had every intention of offering consumers high-speed access to multiple ISPs on its cable lines, just as soon as...
[September 5, 2000, 9:10]
Green Light For AOL-Time Warner Merger
News The Federal Trade Commission approved the deal in December under a consent decree requiring the combined company to allow rivals to offer high-speed Internet access over Time Warner's cable systems. The US' Federal Communications Commission (FCC...
[January 12, 2001, 7:58]
Open Access: Appeal Showdown Set
News Some fear such measures could lead to increased regulation of the free-wheeling Internet, ultimately stifling its growth, a concern shared by the Federal Communications Commission and many in Congress.
[November 1, 1999, 12:19]
Bush Snubs Tech VC For Commerce Post
News Evans, 54, is considered a confidant of Bush by most political observers, which should help him fight for turf representing an agency that often finds itself in jurisdictional conflict with the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade...
[December 20, 2000, 15:44]
US Telecoms Regulators Reveal Contentious Vision
News The new regulations, collected in a massive 576-page document, spell out the Federal Communications Commission's vision for competition between the big local phone companies and their rivals in the data and voice telephony markets.
[August 22, 2003, 11:20]
US Regulators Turn On To Power-line Broadband
News If broadband over power lines, or BPL, takes off, then more people, particularly in rural and underserved areas, will be able to plug into high-speed Internet access, and markets dominated by cable and DSL (digital subscriber line) should be...
[August 4, 2006, 11:20]
US Congress Votes For Net Neutrality
News That other bill, called the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement, or COPE, Act, says the Federal Communications Commission "shall have exclusive authority" to investigate violations of net neutrality principles.
[May 26, 2006, 9:10]
AOL Hatches Interactive-video Unit
News The Federal Trade Commission issued a consent order last year that imposed conditions to approving the deal. More damaging, the move prompted federal regulators to examine the proposed AOL-Time Warner merger more carefully and opened a window of...
[August 17, 2001, 8:30]
New Yahoo! IM Cranks Up Videoconferencing
News In January 2001, the Federal Communications Commission approved the merger of America Online and Time Warner but imposed regulatory conditions addressing AOL's dominance in instant messaging. Additionally, Jim Allchin, Microsoft's senior vice...
[August 15, 2002, 8:25]
Wireless High Speed Access For Everyone?
News It has received the OK from the Federal Communications Commission to use the Ka-Band (20GHz to 30GHz) at two orbital locations on May 8, 1997. This brings hope of high-speed Internet access to homes and offices that are not served by cable and are...
[January 17, 2000, 6:05]
Wireless High-speed Access For Everyone?
News It has received the OK from the Federal Communications Commission to use the Ka-Band (20GHz to 30GHz) at two orbital locations on May 8, 1997. This brings hope of high-speed Internet access to homes and offices that are not served by cable and are...
[January 18, 2000, 6:05]
Will Merger Shut Lid On Open Access?
News Lemley, along with Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig, has asked the Federal Communications Commission to add an "open access" requirement to its approval of AT&T's acquisition of MediaOne Group. Mark Lemley, a professor at the University of...
[January 11, 2000, 14:03]
Broadband Fulfilling Its Promise
News If the United States is going to maintain its ability to grow its economy, I think the continued proliferation of broadband technologies is key to that solution," Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell said in a speech in May.
[July 27, 2004, 11:50]
FBI Seeks Power To Eavesdrop On Net
News Representatives of the FBI's Electronic Surveillance Technology Section have met at least twice in the past three weeks with senior officials of the Federal Communications Commission to lobby for proposed new Internet-eavesdropping rules.
[July 29, 2003, 14:21]
FCC Alleged Toothless On IM Conditions
News As the industry takes a closer look at the instant messaging conditions imposed on America Online by the Federal Communications Commission, a consensus is forming that the Internet giant got a free pass.
[January 15, 2001, 8:15]
AOL Looks To Video To Boost IM
News The battered AOL unit earlier this month filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission seeking to lift restrictions barring it from offering advanced instant messaging-based high-speed services (AIHS).
[April 15, 2003, 13:42]
FCC To Review Firms' Use Of Customer Data
News Staff at the US Federal Communications Commission are expected to recommend that it review rules on how phone and cable companies can use customer information as they try to take business from each other, an FCC official said on Friday.
[April 14, 2008, 9:22]
Verizon Scorns Net Neutrality Fight
News Under the defeated amendment, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) would receive the authority to police the internet for violations of the rules and ban any kind of preferential treatment based on charging extra fees.
[May 5, 2006, 11:40]
Digital Is Key For Broadcasting Conference
News More broadly, the conference will feature new technologies and products that let broadcasters move easily from analog to digital broadcasting -- a transition mandated for 2006 by the US Federal Communications Commission.
[April 8, 2002, 14:36]
