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The FCC has presented its National Broadband Plan, which advocates bringing affordable broadband access to more Americans, and also suggests that more broadband can help boost health care IT in the United States. Specifically, the FCC is claiming that increased broadband to physicians and hospitals will help transmit increasingly larger ...

It is considered that the national broadband plan of the Federal Communications Commission should become beneficial for all Americans, but , in fact, not every company as well as group is going to be happy. The thing is that there will be losers as well as winners because the government ...

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 ...

News Analysis: The proposed FCC National Broadband Plan may just be social change we all can agree on. The federal government has already shown that it can manage to build out a network of highways under Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System, among others. However, in this recession, is a broadband plan ...

The Federal Communications Commission lays out an ambitious agenda for providing nationwide broadband for Americans, including a goal to connect 100 million households to 100-megabits-per-second service within a decade. - The Federal Communications Commission is planning to announce a nationwide broadband initiative this week to expand coverage ...

The Federal Communications Commission gives American consumers the opportunity to check for dead zones and broadband speeds through a set of tools one of which is also available as an Apple iPhone and Google Android mobile application. - The Federal Communications Commission launched two digital tools, the Consumer ...

Google told the Federal Communications Commission it reduced a fee charged to buyers of its Nexus One smartphone that canceled their service contract early to clear up concerns and confusion in the market. Google cut the Equipment Recovery Fee, designed to help Google recoup money it owed to T-Mobile in ...

The Federal Communications Commission will reveal a plan March 17 to expand affordable broadband access to some 93 million Americans who lack a high-speed connection. The plan will likely involve a combination of price reductions for Americans along with investment in broadband infrastructure. A recent FCC survey suggests that 74 ...

The Federal Communications Commission approves rules allowing schools receiving E-rate funds to allow the general public to use the Internet access already present in schools for purposes such as job searches and applications, digital literacy programs, and online access to governmental services and resources. - The Federal ...

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. ...

Google has cut a fee charged to users who cease using its Nexus One smartphone before four months from $350 to $150. The move comes in the wake of a broad probe into ETFs by the Federal Communications Commission, which Jan. 26 sent letters to AT T, Google, Sprint and ...

Blogs Brighthand and Engadget have found evidence that the Federal Communications Commission has blessed what could be a version of the Nexus One that runs on AT T's 3G network. The unknown device supports 3G on WCDMA Bands I, II and V, meaning that it'll work on AT T's network ...

The governmental regulatory agency, already investigating Verizon Wireless' early termination fees, now requests information about ETFs from AT T, Google, Sprint and T-Mobile. - The Federal Communications Commission has expanded its investigation into the early termination fees wireless companies charge consumers who leave their contracts early. After initially targeting ...

The FCC faces tough questions about its legal authority to penalize Comcast for throttling peer-to-peer traffic from BitTorrent. Comcast tells the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that the FCC's network neutrality principles are nothing more than a policy statement and do not carry the weight ...

The federal agency charged with developing a national broadband plan to bring affordable, high-speed Internet connections to all corners of America says it needs at least one more month to complete the plan. Congress originally imposed a Feb. 17 deadline for the FCC to present the plan to lawmakers. ...

After being one of the leaders in a years-long struggle to open up the interference buffer zones between television channels for unlicensed broadband use, Google steps forward and volunteers to create an FCC-mandated geolocation database. The database will be used to register the locations of fixed TV band devices and ...

AT T's request that the Federal Communications Commission allow it to phase out its public switched telephone network doesn't mean that Americans will have to do without land lines, analysts say. The business could be sold to other parties. - AT amp;T told the Federal Communications Commission ...

AT T tells the FCC that in order to meet Congress' goal of extending broadband access to 100 percent of Americans, it needs to heave the old land-line business off its shoulders so it can focus funds on broadband and IP-based communications. - AT amp;T has told ...

The carrier defends the doubling of early termination fees for smartphone customers as making smartphones and advanced services available to those who might not otherwise be able to afford them. - Verizon continued its strenuous defense of its ETFs (early termination fees) for smartphones in a Dec. 18 ...

Luxul's series of FCC-certified systems and kits will bundle the D-Link AirPlus Xtreme G access point, which the company claims delivers speeds of up to 108M bps. - Luxul Wireless, a producer of wireless signal technologies, and D-Link, an end-to-end solutions provider for consumers and businesses, announced the ...