The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is calling on the telecom industry to help put an end to scam robocalls. On Monday, FCC chairman Ajit Pai sent letters to the heads of voice providers, including AT&T, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Frontier, Google, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon* and others, urging them to adopt a call authentication system that would […]
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California delays its net neutrality law while FCC’s new rules are challenged
California’s much-anticipated net neutrality rules, which were signed into law last month, are being put on ice until a challenge to the FCC’s own rules at the federal level is resolved. It’s unfortunate, but logical — if the FCC rules are undone or modified, the necessity and legality of California’s will also be affected.
View More California delays its net neutrality law while FCC’s new rules are challengedWhite House belatedly begins planning for 5G with memo asking for policy recommendations
The White House has issued a memorandum outlining the need for a new national wireless connectivity strategy; the document doesn’t really establish anything new, but does request lots of reports on how things are going. Strangely, what it proposes sounds a lot like what the FCC already does.
View More White House belatedly begins planning for 5G with memo asking for policy recommendationsFCC puts gigabit Wi-Fi on the roadmap by opening up new wireless spectrum
More and more, the internet is delivered wirelessly, but as bandwidth demand grows in each home — multiple TVs, smart devices, tablets and phones — current Wi-Fi standards are starting to fall short. Fortunately the FCC and wireless industry are prepared for this, and the former has just officially proposed opening up a wide swathe of spectrum to bring our Wi-Fi systems up to gigabit level.
View More FCC puts gigabit Wi-Fi on the roadmap by opening up new wireless spectrumFCC resorts to the usual malarkey defending itself against Mozilla lawsuit
Mozilla filed a lawsuit in August alleging the FCC had unlawfully overturned 2015’s net neutrality rules, by among other things “fundamentally mischaracteriz[ing] how internet access works.” The FCC has filed its official response, and as you might expect it has doubled down on those fundamental mischaracterizations.
View More FCC resorts to the usual malarkey defending itself against Mozilla lawsuitNet neutrality rises from the dead, and the Trump administration isn’t happy
It’s official: we can’t call anything that happens in the fight over net neutrality “Official” anymore.
Late Sunday evening, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the state of California to refute its landmark net neutrality legislation. Thi…
FCC cracks the whip on 5G deployment against protests of local governments
The FCC is pushing for speedy deployment of 5G networks nationwide with an order adopted today that streamlines what it perceives as a patchwork of obstacles, needless costs, and contradictory regulations at the state level. But local governments say the federal agency is taking things too far.
View More FCC cracks the whip on 5G deployment against protests of local governmentsFEMA to test a new system that allows the president to send an alert to your phone
Get ready for a new alert coming straight to your phone, this time from the president himself.
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On the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 20, FEMA wi…
FEMA to test a new system that allows the president to send an alert to your phone
Get ready for a new alert coming straight to your phone, this time from the president himself.
SEE ALSO: Hawaii’s governor couldn’t tweet about missile false alarm because he forgot his Twitter password
On the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 20, FEMA wi…
Senator claps back after Ajit Pai calls California’s net neutrality bill ‘radical’ and ‘illegal’
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has provoked a senatorial response from California after calling the “nanny state’s” new net neutrality legislation “radical,” “anti-consumer,” “illegal,” and “burdensome.” Senator Scott Wiener (D-CA), in response, said Pai has “abdicated his responsibility to ensure an open internet” and that the FCC lacks the authority to intervene.
View More Senator claps back after Ajit Pai calls California’s net neutrality bill ‘radical’ and ‘illegal’Bay Area city blocks 5G deployments over cancer concerns
The Bay Area may be the center of the global technology industry, but that hasn’t stopped one wealthy enclave from protecting itself from the future. The city council of Mill Valley, a small town located just a few miles north of San Francisco, voted unanimously late last week to effectively block deployments of small-cell 5G […]
View More Bay Area city blocks 5G deployments over cancer concernsFCC accused of ‘dereliction of duty’ in failing to dispel cyberattack ‘myth’
Following the issuance of a report from the FCC’s Inspector General essentially saying the reports of cyberattacks on the agency were made up out of whole cloth, several lawmakers are demanding answers from Chairman Ajit Pai.
View More FCC accused of ‘dereliction of duty’ in failing to dispel cyberattack ‘myth’