FCC Chairman Brendan Carr recommended investigating different e-911 options beyond the NextNav petition; The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is using a petition by NextNav that would affect ...

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As the U.S. Federal Communications Commission probes CBS for potential violations of the agency’s rarely-invoked policy on “news distortion,” communications lawyers and FCC scholars say that ...

EchoStar has also come under fire from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which filed a letter with the FCC saying the commission “must swiftly recognize that Dish has left this valuable midband spectrum chronically ...

The FCC says this warrants further investigation and possibly new rules to crack down on loud offenders. A longer report (PDF, spotted by PCMag) fills in some of the blanks.

President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to expand his control over "so-called independent agencies" in a bid to reign in regulatory departments -- including the Federal Trade Commission ...

The FCC is not going to be a reflexive deregulator for the next four years; expect a lot more of the unexpected under the Trump Administration. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip.

The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau approved Verizon’s (VZ) $20B acquisition of Frontier (FYBR) by granting a series of applications that transfer FCC licenses and authorizations. Chairman ...

Both Republican members of the FCC — Chairman Carr and Commissioner Nathan Simington — voted against the use of E-rate funds for purposes other than on-campus connectivity, such as Wi-Fi on ...

The FCC, ahead of the Juneteenth national holiday on Thursday, has initiated an effort that could eliminate the 39% national TV owner reach limitation established by the Commission more than two ...

Trump to announce more cabinet picks this week 03:10. President-elect Donald Trump's pick to run the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, will oversee the agency that regulates U.S ...

As former chairmen of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)—one appointed by a Democrat, the other by a Republican—we have seen firsthand how the agency operates when it is guided by its ...