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SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 16, 2010 – Intel Corporation today commended FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and the FCC broadband team for delivering a meaningful and ambitious plan for U.S. leadership in broadband.

Without naming specific broadcasters, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski said there is support for the commission's plan to auction off broadcast spectrum in return for a share of the profits. - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski expressed confidence that major U.S. television broadcasters were open to the FCCs plan ...

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski believes that auctioning off some 500 megahertz of the wireless spectrum, currently held by television broadcasters, would be the best way to increase spectrum for mobile carriers and other providers, according to prepared remarks delivered to a New America Foundation event. The FCC has an ambitious ...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has already said the National Broadband Plan due to Congress in March will call for 100 million households at 100M bps by the end of the decade. A coalition of consumer and advocacy groups like that but call for even bolder goals and milestones. ...

Under a proposal before New York City Council Committee on Technology in Government, New York City would endorse Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski's initiative to codify and broaden FCC's network neutrality principles. - The New York City Council Committee on Technology in Government is set to consider ...

Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota writes to Verizon Wireless President and CEO Lowell C. McAdam and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski criticizing Verizon's decision to double the penalty fees to $350 for smartphone subscribers who leave their contracts early. - Sen. Amy Klobuchar fired off a letter Nov. ...

In a carefully worded address to wireless carriers, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski praises AT T and Verizon for their recent open network commitments, but says his network neutrality proposal is essential to maintaining Internet openess on both wireline and wireless platforms. - Federal Communications Commission ...

With the Federal Communications Commission voting as early as this month on Chairman Julius Genachowski's plan to expand and codify the agency's network neutrality principles, House Republicans seek to delay the vote as long as possible. In the Senate, Republicans may introduce legislation to block any new network neutrality rules. ...

In a familiar refrain from previous regulatory wars over the Internet, House Minority Leader John Boehner and House Republican whip Eric Cantor tell Obama new network neutrality rules proposed by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski will stifle investment in networks. - The House Republican leadership warned ...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski wants to expand and codify the FCC's four network neutrality principles and, to the utter horror of wireless carriers, make them apply to the mobile Internet. It all adds up to one of the greatest policy battles at the FCC in years. ...

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's amendment to block FCC funding for implementing new network neutrality regulations proves short-lived. - A move by Republican senators to block funding to the Federal Communications Commission for developing or implementing new network neutrality regulations is apparently over almost as quickly as it ...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski's proposal to possibly extend the agency's network neutrality principles to the mobile Internet prompts wireless carriers to reach for their favorite phrase: Don't regulate the Internet. - The last time the term quot;network neutrality quot; caused this much stir on Capitol ...

Senate Republicans react quickly to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's proposal to expand the Federal Communications Commission's network neutrality authority. Working on an unrelated appropriations bill, Republican senators push an amendment to deny the FCC funds for developing or implementing new Internet regulations. - Just hours after Federal ...

Chairman Julius Genachowski proposes the addition of new network neutrality rules that would prohibit broadband providers from discriminating against any particular Internet content or applications and require carriers such as Verizon, AT T and Comcast to fully disclose their network management practices. Unsettling wireless broadband providers, Genachowski said the FCC ...

The FCC, which has one of the federal government's most difficult sites to maneuver, turns to crowdsourcing, video blogging, RSS feeds, YouTube and Twitter. - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski continues to bring quot;Gov 2.0 quot; change to the agency known for its difficult-to-use Website. On Sept. ...

Two lawmakers and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski deliver a chilling message to broadband providers: Consumers have rights, beginning with network neutrality. - Taken alone, neither the Federal Communications Commission's quick decision to investigate the Google Voice ban on iPhones nor the stealthy introduction of a network neutrality bill in ...

Co-authored with Ben Scott Mignon Clyburn, Barack Obama's choice to fill a vacant Democratic seat at the Federal Communications Commission, will face a confirmation hearing...