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FCC Investigates ISP Data Caps .. But not for long.
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FCC Mulls Rules to Protect Abuse Survivors from Stalking Through Cars
To protect domestic violence survivors from abusers, the FCC wants to include internet-connected vehicles under the Safe Communication Act.
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FCC To End Broadband Discounts For Poor People After Republicans Undermine Program
The FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), part of the 2021 infrastructure bill, currently provides 23 million low-income Americans a $30 broadband discount. While it didn’t get much hype, that’s a big deal in a country where broadband affordability is a massive obstacle due to muted competition.
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Cable lobby and Ted Cruz are disappointed as FCC bans digital discrimination
FCC will investigate ISP practices that discriminate by income level or race.
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The FCC wants to know why data caps are still a thing in 2023
Consumer data consumption has increased exponentially in a little over a decade. According to broadband insight reports from OpenVault, monthly household data usage has skyrocketed from an average of 9 GB per month in 2010 to more than 587 GB per month in 2023. The increase marks an eye-watering 6,422% increase in the past 13 years.
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Comcast complains to FCC that listing all of its monthly fees is too hard
Comcast blasted for seeking "loopholes" in rule requiring disclosure of all fees.
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FCC taking a stand against spam texting
Under new regulations for telecom firms, the Federal Communications Commission is taking action against spammy text messages in response to an increase in consumer complaints in recent years related to unsolicited robotexts.
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Bad maps could cheat internet-starved Americans out of $43B
Major US carriers are exaggerating the availability of fixed wireless services and leaving under-served communities at risk of missing out on billions in federal funding that would pay for improved services. The findings, detailed in a Bloomberg report this week, found that T-Mobile and Verizon routinely claimed to offer fixed wireless services where no such service was actually available. The incentive to do so is obvious from a competitive standpoint: marketing is marketing after all.
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The predatory prison phone call industry is finally about to be fixed
A new rule allowing the Federal Communications Commission to regulate the rates of prison phone calls is one step closer to becoming law. After it passed through Congress last week, the Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act of 2022 now awaits President Joe Biden’s signature.
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Cable company’s accidental email to rival discusses plan to block competition
On October 17, Jonathan Chambers received an email that wasn't meant for him. Chambers is one of the top executives at Conexon, a broadband company that has built and operates dozens of fiber networks in rural parts of America. Conexon recently won one of the Louisiana state government's GUMBO grants to deploy fiber-to-the-home service in East Carroll Parish, where the poverty rate of 37.6 percent is over three times the national average.
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SpaceX's Starlink launches internet service for planes to finally fix crappy in-flight WiFi
Speedier in-flight WiFi may finally be on the way. Starlink, the satellite-internet service from SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket company, announced a new service for airplanes on Wednesday. Starlink Aviation promises to bring impressive speeds, up to 350 megabytes-per-second, to the skies starting in 2023. It will cost $12,500-$25,000 per month on top of an initial hardware fee of $150,000.
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U.S. FCC set to ban all U.S. sales of Huawei, ZTE equipment
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission plans to ban all sales of Huawei and ZTE telecommunications equipment in the United States on national security grounds, news website Axios reported on Thursday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
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FCC threatens to block calls from carriers for letting robocalls run rampant
It’s the most significant action to address robocalls.
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Google Fiber expands for first time in five years, and is coming to five new states
The Google Fiber broadband service is one again expanding, announcing plans to bring the service to five states - Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Idaho - over the next several years. It's the first major expansion of Google Fiber since halting the network's rollout in nine cities in October 2016.
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FCC orders carriers to stop delivering auto warranty robocalls
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday announced it has told carriers to stop delivering auto warranty robocalls, citing it as a top complaint from consumers.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX Gets FCC's Approval to Use Starlink Satellite Internet for Moving Vehicles
The US Federal Communications Commission on Thursday authorised Elon Musk's SpaceX to use its Starlink satellite internet network with moving vehicles, green-lighting the company's plan to expand broadband offerings to commercial airlines, shipping vessels and trucks.
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Starlink tells customers that a Dish 5G plan would make Starlink “unusable”
SpaceX is asking Starlink customers to help the company win a regulatory battle against Dish Network. In an email urging users to contact the Federal Communications Commission and members of Congress, SpaceX yesterday said a Dish plan to use the 12 GHz spectrum band for mobile service will cause "harmful interference [to Starlink users] more than 77 percent of the time and total outage of service 74 percent of the time, rendering Starlink unusable for most Americans."
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FCC Commissioner urges Google and Apple to ban TikTok
"TikTok is not just another video app. That's the sheep’s clothing." That's what Brendan Carr wrote in his tweet along with a copy of the letter he sent Apple and Google, asking the companies to remove TikTok from their app stores. The agency's senior Republican commissioner references a recent BuzzFeed News report that examined leaked audio from 80 internal TikTok meetings. Based on those leaked audio recordings, China-based employees of TikTok parent company ByteDance had repeatedly accessed private information on users in the US.
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A top FCC official accused Tim Cook of hypocrisy for talking up Apple's commitment to human rights while censoring apps in China
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said Cook's recent comments "founder upon the harsh reality of your actions in China."
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Appeals court upholds California’s net neutrality law
A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that California’s net neutrality law can remain in place, upholding a lower court decision. California’s 2018 law is the toughest in the country, and was signed into law a year after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) repealed the federal Open Internet Order. That 2015 order put into place strict net neutrality rules barring internet providers from blocking or throttling legal apps and websites. It also banned prioritization of paid content by ISPs.
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