We have combed through the FCC's 194-page Report and Order (and related materials) in the net neutrality proceeding and now provide a more in-depth look at the content and implications of the new net neutrality rules.… Continue Reading
With an auction of new FM construction permits in the pipeline, potential participants should be careful to do their homework before they bid. What's the worst case scenario? Consider the guy who bid -- and paid - $4.4 million for a permit that couldn't be built.… Continue Reading
Comment deadlines have been set in the Inquiry into dynamic spectrum use technologies -- the Inquiry which could overhaul the foundations of radio communications.… Continue Reading
The effective date of most of the recent revisions to the Commission's procedures for measuring DTV signal strength has been established.… Continue Reading
If you're a modern day Ragged Dick torn from the pages of Horatio Alger's classic, looking to pull yourself up by the bootstraps through grit, determination, clean living, etc., your kind benefactor may be none other than the FCC.… Continue Reading
Revised versions of Forms 303-S and 317 have made it to the Office of Management and Budget, where interested parties have 30 days to chip in their two cents' worth on the revisions.… Continue Reading
With the ringing endorsement of only one Commission member, net neutrality has become the law of the land . . . at least for the time being.… Continue Reading
The effective date for the STELA-induced changes to the method for predicting DTV signal strength at particular locations has been set, as have comment deadlines relative to some aspects of that changed methodology.… Continue Reading
With the clock ticking down on this session, and with a newly-elected majority standing in the wings ready to take over come January, the lame duck Congress has managed to pass a new version of the "Local Community Radio Act", largely eliminating third-adjacent interference protection from low power FM stations.… Continue Reading
All you non-interactive webcasters thinking about your budgeting for, say, the next five years: the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has announced the rates and terms that will apply to your operations for the period January 1, 2011-December 31, 2015.… Continue Reading
The FCC has announced plans to auction a grab-bag of 700 MHz broadband licenses in Puerto Rico, North Dakota, the Carolinas, Texas, West Virginia and Virginia.… Continue Reading
The FCC has begun the biggest radio technology change in a century. The end result will be an utterly different radio spectrum - as different from today's as today's is from the spark-gap era.… Continue Reading
The Commission will vote on new net neutrality rules in late December despite shaky legal foundations and opposition in Congress. Here's an overview of the situation as the scheduled date of the FCC's vote approaches.… Continue Reading
Because the proposed rules affect just about every current and prospective user of the spectrum, the FCC should expect vigorous and conflicting comments. Entities committed to innovation will want greater flexibility, while incumbents will each demand greater protection for their own particular operations.… Continue Reading
The FCC's 6th R&O, upgrading and modernizing the E-rate program (providing Universal Service support to schools and libraries) has finally been published in the Federal Register -- which means that the revised program will become effective January 3, 2011.… Continue Reading
The FCC is conducting an "environmental assessment" relative to the effects of its Antenna Structure Registration Program on migratory birds. It invites your comments.… Continue Reading
