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FCC Botches Prison Payphone Reform with Price Controls Unlikely to Survive in Court

August 9, 2013

Today, the Federal Communications Commission adopted an order intended to lower prison payphone phone calling rates. Commissioner Ajit Pai dissented over concerns of the legality,...


The Ten Most Important Questions for Obama’s Nominee to Chair FCC

June 18, 2013

Today, the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing (at 2:30 EDT) on President Obama’s nomination of venture capitalist Tom Wheeler as FCC Chairman (hashtag:...


FCC Anxiously Puts One Toe Halfway in Tepid Water with IP Transition “Trials”

May 10, 2013

Today, the FCC asked for comments on initial trials for a transition from outdated switched telephone networks to Internet-based (IP) alternatives. Instead of studying the...


The FCC Should Protect the Most Truly “Captive Audience” for Telecom Services: Prisoners

March 26, 2013

While the tech policy community debates Susan Crawford’s new book Captive Audience, her plea for sweeping regulation to avert a cable monopoly, a truly “captive...


How the FCC Can Lead the Way to Internet Everywhere by Enabling the IP Transition

February 26, 2013

AT&T’s petition presents the FCC with a stark choice:  Bootstrap the regulations of a dying 20th century technology platform onto the networks of the future,...


Toward Modern, Modest Regulation for the IP Transition

January 28, 2013

AT&T and NTCA have asked the Commission to open a proceeding to facilitate the telephone industry’s ongoing transition from legacy, time-division multiplexed (“TDM”) networks to...