Don Evans has some thoughts about last week's closed-door meeting at the FCC -- and what that meeting might say about the Commission's commitment to "transparency".… Continue Reading
With just a month to go before the door to the digital promised land for LPTV/TV Translators was supposed to swing open, the Commission has announced that the filing opportunity has been postponed again - this time until further notice.… Continue Reading
The FCC has responded to the Form 323 mandamus petition in the D.C. Circuit, and the petitioners have replied. Read all about it here.… Continue Reading
With too little basis for regulation having failed in court, and the FCC having earlier rejected too much, the FCC is now trying for the "just right" approach to network neutrality.… Continue Reading
Comments reflected in the ORBIT Act report have squarely placed the issue of competitiveness within the Fixed Satellite Services industry before Congress and the Commission… Continue Reading
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act shelters operators from liability for third-party posts. Fall-out from well-intentioned promises by the operators themselves is another matter.… Continue Reading
Grab your rod, bait your hook, put on your floaties - and don't forget the sunscreen - it looks like we're all going on an indecency fishing expedition, thanks to the FCC's Enforcement Bureau!… Continue Reading
With the July 8 deadline for filing commercial ownership reports fast approaching, the D.C. Circuit has ordered the FCC to respond to claims that the revised Form 323 filing requirements were not imposed lawfully.… Continue Reading
The FCC now allows 30 MHz channels in the Upper 6 GHz band, and conditional licensing on additional channels at 23 GHz. If you don't know what any of this means, you can probably skip clicking the link.… Continue Reading
As part of its wide-ranging effort to impose consistency across the Wireless Radio Services, the Commission is looking for a way to address the thorny problems presented by the comparative renewal process and the concept of "renewal expectancy".… Continue Reading
Maybe, after long enough on the phone answering silly questions, people start giving the interviewer random answers out of sheer boredom.… Continue Reading
When people get on the wrong side of the FCC, it is rarely for confusing one section of the rules with another. But the FCC is intent anyway on making the rules more uniform.… Continue Reading
The Media Bureau has rejected -- quickly and in no uncertain terms -- a proposal for a tenfold across-the-board power increase for all AM stations.… Continue Reading