broadcastingcable.com - 12/29/2008
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Q&A With FCC Chairman Kevin Martin Outgoing FCC chairman discusses the challenges heading into the Feb. 2009 DTV transition and the prospects for his proposals on program-access complaint rules and free broadband By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 12/29/2008 10:35:00 AM FCC Chairman Kevin ...
arstechnica.com - 12/30/2008
phonescoop.com - 1/3/2009
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phonescoop.com —
Today new documents seen on the FCC site
revealed an unannounced phone from Samsung. The R470 is...
a dual-band CDMA clamshell with Bluetooth. Photos reveal that the R470 has a dedicated camera key, USB port, microSD slot, dual displays, ... (follow ...
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Samsung R470 Pops Up On FCC Site
newsweek.com - 12/24/2008
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newsweek.com —
Economic growth requires innovation. Trouble is, Washington is
practically designed to resist it. Built into the DNA...
of the agencies created to protect innovation is an almost irresistible urge to protect the most powerful instead. The FCC is a ...
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Newsweek: Why we should demolish the FCC
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Martin: Free Internet Prospects Dim
dailywireless.org —
... does not see much chance of getting his free broadband proposal out the door before he exits in mid-January, says Broadcast and Cable Magazine. ...
FCC’s Free Wireless Broadband Plan Now Unfiltered to Protect Free Speech and Pornographers
Digital Daily —
... Tenacious guy, that Kevin Martin. The December meeting at which the Federal Communications Commission was to vote on his free wireless broadband plan has been canceled. And the plan itself is, by his own admission, dead in the water; yet the FCC chairman continues to push it forward. Centered around another major spectrum auction, the plan as originally conceived would have required the winning bidders to offer ...
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blog.wired.com 12/25/2008 —
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In today's deep recession, digital age advocates are trying to ...
What the New FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Must Do [GigaOM]
gigaom.com 1/13/2009 — President-elect Obama will name Julius Genachowski as the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, the Wall Street Journal said today , adding weight to similar reports in the Washington Post from a few weeks ago . Aside from ...
Supreme Court oral arguments in FCC v. Fox (Background)
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Free Web Plan Being Pushed by FCC Head
online.wsj.com 12/1/2008 — Outgoing Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is pushing for action in December on a plan to offer free, pornography-free wireless Internet service to all Americans, despite objections from the wireless industry and some consumer ...
Obama Names FCC Transition Team
tvnewsday.com 11/14/2008 — Two academics Susan Crawford and Kevin Werbach will lead the Obama FCC transition team with the responsibility of advising the incoming administration on policy, budget and personnel matters, the Obama-Biden office announced today. Crawford is a ...
FCC: Consistent to a fault, but there is a (small) hope
networkworld.com 10/15/2008 — The FCC has put out a worse-than-useless report on the status of broadband deployment in the United States. I know this is far from news, since it seems to be the only kind of report on this topic that the FCC knows how to produce, but there may be ...
Free wireless broadband boosted —
The Register 12/30/2008
FCC proposes smut for all FCC Chair Kevin Martin has proposed dropping the content-filtering requirement attached to the AWS band, in the hope that someone will build a network if they're not required to remove all the pornography.…
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