Latest Federal Communications Commission Stories
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Dish Network’s chairman took center stage last evening at the All Things D: Dive Into Media conference in California and spoke rather candidly about his thoughts on advertising, the mass of Blockbuster stores his company now owns, and his plans to get into the wireless market. Dish has been making a recent push towards wireless, picking up spectrum where they can and working with the FCC to get permission to operate a wireless...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Enhancing its leadership in communications and cybersecurity law, Venable LLP announced that James Arden Barnett, Jr., Rear Admiral, USN (Retired), has joined the firm as a partner in Washington, DC. Mr. Barnett is the former Chief of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau for the Federal Communications Commission. He becomes co-chair of the Telecommunications Group and a partner in the firm's cybersecurity practice. With a...
MIAMI, Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- TracFone Wireless, Inc., issued the following fact sheet today about the wireless broadband pilot program it is undertaking at the direction of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to benefit income-eligible households by "increasing digital literacy and use of the Internet [to] help bridge the skills gap [and] reduce job search discouragement." Fact #1: The FCC's Wireless broadband pilot program is seeking ways to bridge the...
The FCC hosted a telemedicine demonstration by the Georgia Partnership for Telehealth (GPT), which focuses on increasing access to health care through innovative use of technology. During the live demo, Les Evans GPT Liaison connects with Dr. Debra Lister from Coffee Regional Medical Center, an FCC Rural Health Care Pilot Program participant, to conduct a simulated patient exam – allowing the audience in Washington, D.C. to hear the heartbeat of a patient in rural Coffee County,...
Jeff Kagan has been a Tech Analyst for twenty-five years, and is available to speak with the media offering comment on news stories. He follows wireless, telecom, Internet, cable television, IPTV and the wider consumer electronics and technology industry. Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 01, 2013 In a Bloomberg BusinessWeek article titled, DOJ Asks FCC to Defer Action on Softbank-Sprint Merger, the Department of Justice, FBI and the Department of Homeland Security asked the FCC to delay the...
Comment supports petition seeking national conversation on speeding up transition to all-IP based networks with beta trials to measure consumer benefits SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- CALinnovates, a tech advocacy organization, along with eight other California-based tech groups -- Alphabird, Appallicious, At The Pool, Avetta, iSideWith, Lex Machina, MySocialCloud, and the Silicon Valley Italian Executive Council -- have jointly filed comments with the...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online The Justice Department has asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to “defer action” on its review of the pending $20 billion merger of Softbank and Sprint while the department and other agencies investigate the deal for any “national security, law enforcement and public safety issues.” In a filing submitted on Monday to the FCC, Jennifer Rockoff, an attorney adviser with the Justice Department’s national...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Crest Financial Limited formally asked the Federal Communications Commission to block the proposed mergers between Softbank and Sprint and between Sprint and Clearwire. Crest, a substantial minority shareholder of Clearwire, argues in a petition filed late yesterday that that the proposed transactions grossly undervalue the primary asset sought in both mergers - Clearwire's trove of wireless spectrum. The filing notes that Sprint's offer for...
CHICAGO, Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Tribune Company today announced the appointment of Edward Lazarus as the company's Executive Vice President/General Counsel, effective immediately. Lazarus most recently served as Chief of Staff to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Julius Genachowski, overseeing policy development and implementation, strategic planning, and agency management. "Eddie has an incredibly sharp mind, broad legal experience, and he...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Last week, Google submitted an application to the FCC for a license to begin testing a new “experimental radio service” for the next 24 months. Now that this application has been found, many have begun asking what Google is testing and why. One such ponderer, consulting engineer Steven J. Crowley, suggests that Google’s experiment could be what’s called a “HetNet,” or heterogeneous network. These networks, thought to...
