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TelcosLawmakers Press FCC On AT$T's Public Program OfferingsPosted on September 18, 2008 - 11:59am.
from: The Morning Star Lawmakers Press FCC On AT&T's Public Program Offerings WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Members of a powerful House committee are pressing the Federal Communications Commission to put a stop to how AT&T Inc. (T) offers public and educational programming on its fledgling paid TV service. ( categories: Telcos | AT&T | Cablevision | FCC | FCC Video Franchise | State Franchises | Time Warner )
More Verminators!Posted on September 18, 2008 - 11:56am.
from: Riedel Communications More Verminators! On the eve of a Congressional hearing regarding what has happened to Public, Educational and Government (PEG) access channels since the passage of statewide or state issued franchise legislation, it is heartening to note that the cable and telecom industries (and the FCC) have severely overplayed their hand. Tomorrow, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government will hear a laundry list of harms done to PEG in what appears to be an industry-wide effort to bury and destroy these local channels. An effort that was spawned by the FCC’s First and Second Report and Order on Video Franchising and the nineteen states that passed the state legislation. These harms come at a time when Congress and the American people are acutely sensitive to media consolidation and the loss of localism. ( categories: Telcos | AT&T | Cablevision | Comcast | FCC | FCC Video Franchise | State Franchises | Time Warner )
More disturbing numbers for telcosPosted on May 15, 2008 - 5:55am.
from: Telephony Online More disturbing numbers for telcos May 13, 2008 11:02 AM, By Carol Wilson Two separate sources this week are offering up more analysis showing the telcos are falling behind the cable companies in the broadband and video battle. Information Gatekeepers, an analyst firm that once predicted the telcos would overtake cable in broadband penetration, this week issued its High-Speed Access Report for the first quarter of 2008, showing cable is outperforming its forecast and the telcos are under-performing what IGI had forecast in 2006. The latest report is in keeping with what IGI began saying in 2007, when it warned that both AT&T and Verizon were falling behind in implementing high-speed access plans, and thus their data revenues would not make up for lost wireline access income. Were Telcos Justified in Warrantless Wiretaps?Posted on March 15, 2008 - 10:44am.
from: Light Reading Were Telcos Justified in Warrantless Wiretaps? Democrats and Republicans in Congress are divided over a critical telecom issue: wiretapping. Are the U.S.'s largest phone companies liable for assisting the federal government in carrying out warrantless wiretaps? Telecom Companies Try to Buy Their Way Out of TroublePosted on March 10, 2008 - 7:09pm.
from: San Jose Mercury News Telecom Companies Try to Buy Their Way Out of Trouble March 7, 2008 California’s biggest telephone companies are throwing their political weight around again. But this time the issue isn’t about yet more rate increases or competing with cable TV. It’s spying. ( categories: Telcos | NSA/Telco Wiretap Scandal )
GOP To Telecoms: Give Us Cash For Advocating WiretapsPosted on February 28, 2008 - 1:32pm.
from: Huffington Post GOP To Telecoms: Give Us Cash For Advocating Wiretaps With the House Democrats' refusal to grant retroactive immunity to phone companies -- stalling the rewrite of the warrantless wiretapping program -- GOP leadership aides are grumbling that their party isn't getting more political money from the telecommunications industry. ( categories: Telcos | NSA/Telco Wiretap Scandal )
Why Comcast Paying Folks to Attend FCC Hearing Is Wrong.Posted on February 28, 2008 - 8:55am.
Note: We hear it's common practice for corporations and lobbyists to hire line waiters and seat warmers for Congressional hearings too - this is why you only see suits in the front rows of major hearings. Apparently democracy has a price . . . from: Wet Machine For the Clueless Among Us: Why Comcast Paying Folks to Attend FCC Hearing Is Wrong. I can't believe I actually need to explain this. FCC En Banc: Annals of the Battle for the Last MilePosted on February 28, 2008 - 8:28am.
from: Media - Space - Place - Network FCC En Banc: Annals of the Battle for the Last Mile Harvard Law School was “Markey Country” today as Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey defended net neutrality in his opening remarks before the FCC’s Public En Banc Hearing on broadband network management practices in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Markey declared the US “no country for old bandwidth” and hung around to observe, with the rest of us, the FCC, “en banc” and securely enclosed in Harvard space droning through a tedious day of testimony and q&a, comfortably surrounded by an audience packed with polite but bored Comcast employees trained to provide applause on cue. Cable and telcos side with Comcast in FCC BitTorrent disputePosted on February 23, 2008 - 11:36am.
from: Ars Technica Cable and telcos side with Comcast in FCC BitTorrent dispute By Matthew Lasar | Published: February 19, 2008 - 04:57AM CT The race is on to get the last word in on the Comcast/BitTorrent controversy. With ten days left to file, telcos, trade, and advocacy groups are sending the Federal Communications Commission their statements on whether Comcast and other ISPs purposefully degrade peer to peer traffic, and if so, what to do about it. Not surprisingly, the debate pits broadband content providers and advocacy groups against the big telcos, cable companies, and their trade association backers. Connected Nation's $134 Billion Fish Tale?Posted on February 23, 2008 - 11:18am.
from: Broadband Reports Connected Nation's $134 Billion Fish Tale? Last month Public Knowledge penned a piece that suggested that Connected Nation, a group supposedly created to push a national broadband policy, was actually now essentially a baby bell lobbying effort. The allegation was that what started as a real, local Kentucky effort to map U.S. broadband penetration, has ultimately been hijacked by baby bell lobbyists, and now exists primarily as a way to protect those companies' interests under the guise of a national broadband deployment model. If true, it's absolutely ingenious in a robustly amoral way. ( categories: Telcos | Municipal/Rural Broadband )
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