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When William J. Santoro was turned away from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hearing at Harvard Law School on Monday, he was surprised to learn that a number of seats in the room had been filled by people paid by the Comcast Corporation...
Legal scholars and technology executives spoke before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) yesterday at a public hearing at Harvard Law School on the role companies should have in regulating consumers’ Internet use.The discussions, which attracted a standing-room only audience, were triggered by recent alleged abuses to net neutrality—the idea that Internet providers should not be able to block consumers’ access to Internet resources.“The Internet is as much mine and yours as it is AT&T and Comcast’s,” said Representative Edward J. Markey...
...questions kept coming. Did you have a romantic relationship with the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman? "No." Did you ever talk to your staff about their concerns about his relationship? "No." Were you closer to Iseman than other lobbyists? "No." Do you regret writing letters to the FCC on her behalf? "No." Then McCain's wife Cindy took the microphone. "My children and I not only trust my husband," she said, "but know that he would never do anything to not only disappoint our family but to disappoint the people of America...
Once TV broadcasters have vacated the 700 MHz band for more efficient digital signals, which take up less bandwidth, the FCC will repurpose the surplus analog spectrum for wireless devices. The auction consists of five blocks of licenses to be sold off in pieces - ranging from rights to various regional networks to sprawling nationwide ones - each set at a minimum bid. The process could take weeks or even months and is likely to pull in about $15 or $20 billion for the federal government. Carriers wishing to offer new wireless services are currently running into spectrum shortages - one reason...
Regardless of who ultimately wins, the auction has already prompted a serious restructuring of the way wireless carriers offer services to their customers. In August, the FCC backed Google's crusade (spawned by a paper written by Tim Wu for the New America Foundation calling for open networks) and mandated that the auction's largest available spectrum, the C block, be an open network if the bid reached at least $4.6 billion. (Some analysts predict Google will bid just enough to trigger the open-network provision, and no more.) That would mean customers could use any wireless device, handset...