• McDowell: Why the Rush To Put Political Files Online?

  John Eggerton, February 10, 2012
  FCC commissioner Robert McDowell says that the agency's proposal to make TV stations' political files part of an online public database managed by the commission is fixing "what appears to be a nonexistent problem."  More

• Rural Telcos: FCC Sec. 706 Authority Covers Retrans Reform

  John Eggerton, February 10, 2012
  Representatives rural telecom companies met with top FCC Media Bureau staffers this week to argue that the ancillary authority the agency has asserted in taking steps to promote broadband deployment and adoption, and buttress its network neutrality regs, can be used to justify reforming retrans.  More

• EWTN Files Suit Against Goverment over Contraception Mandate

  MCN Staff, February 10, 2012
  EWTN Global Catholic Network has filed a lawsuit to stop the contraception mandate.  More

• House Dems Reintroduce DISCLOSE Act

  John Eggerton, February 9, 2012
  House Democrats Thursday reintroduced the DISCLOSE Act (HR 4010), which would impose new reporting requirements on Super PACs.  More

• Walden: Unlicensed Spectrum Is Important, But FCC Should Not Give Away Billions

  John Eggerton, February 9, 2012
  As the conferees get down to the short strokes on a compromise payroll tax break extension package, the issue of unlicensed wireless is heating up.  More

• House Communications Subcommittee Skeds FCC Budget Hearing

  John Eggerton, February 9, 2012
  The House Communications Subcommittee has announced it will hold a hearing Feb. 16 (9 a.m.) on the budget/spending of the FCC, over which it has oversight.  More

• House Members Push Unlicensed Spectrum Carve-Out

  John Eggerton, February 9, 2012
  Forty-two House members (39 Democrats, 3 Republicans) have sent a letter to the conferees on the payroll tax break extension package, asking that spectrum incentive auction legislation in the package allows the FCC to use some of spectrum reclaimed from that auction for unlicensed wireless.  More

• DOJ Set To Approve Google's Acquisition Of Motorola Mobility: Report

  Todd Spangler, February 9, 2012
  The U.S. Justice Department is expected to approve Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility as early as next week, although the agency will "closely monitor" how the Internet giant uses the patents it's acquiring, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources.  More

• LightSquared Complains It Was Left Out Of GPS Hearing

  John Eggerton, February 8, 2012
  LightSquared said that it was shut out of a House GPS hearing Wednesday that it called a "trial in absentia" of its proposed wholesale wireless broadband network.  More

• House Subcom Serious about Cybersecurity

  Mike Reynolds, February 8, 2012
  The concerns of House Democrats and Republicans about cybersecurity was made clear in a Hill hearing Wednesday unusually free of the partisan divides that often surface in hearings in the House Communications Subcommittee.  More

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