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Article | 11/02/2011 Obama goal: 98 percent of US covered by 4G broadband
Ninety-eight percent of U.S. residents would have access to high-speed mobile broadband service within five years under a plan that President Barack O...
Article | 10/02/2011 Speedy broadband deployment pitched to FCC
Broadband deployment can happen faster in the U.S. if government agencies remove some road blocks, several members of the telecom industry told the U....
Article | 9/02/2011 FCC moves to redirect phone subsidies to broadband
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission took a major step Tuesday toward ending subsidies for traditional telephone service in rural areas and redi...
Article | 8/02/2011 FCC plans to redirect phone subsidies to broadband
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will unveil a proposal Tuesday to phase out subsidies for traditional telephone service to rural areas, wit...
Article | 5/02/2011 Experts: FCC needs to focus on spectrum and subsidy reform
With the issue of network neutrality behind the U.S. Federal Communications Commission -- at least temporarily -- the agency must turn its focus to fr...
Article | 27/01/2011 LightSquared wins FCC OK for LTE-satellite network
LightSquared said Wednesday it has received approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to build its planned satellite-LTE network for na...
Article | 26/01/2011 Obama talks about innovation, IT investments in speech
U.S. President Barack Obama called for Congress to focus on supporting innovation and support research in IT and clean energy during his State of the ...
Article | 26/01/2011 FCC sets LTE as standard for public safety network
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has set Long Term Evolution (LTE) as the data standard for a nationwide mobile broadband network for public...
Article | 21/12/2010 Net neutrality plan has the votes at FCC
Michael Copps, the swing vote at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission for a set of network neutrality rules, said Monday he will vote for the pr...
Article | 11/11/2010 HP to pay $16M to settle E-Rate fraud charges
Hewlett-Packard will pay $16.25 million to settle a case that resulted in jail time for a school district's former chief technology officer and comput...
Article | 14/10/2010 FCC to address mobile 'bill shock'
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is poised to move forward on "simple and practical" rules intended to help mobile-phone customers avoid une...
Article | 30/09/2010 Linux roundup: Fedora 14 gets MeeGo, Madriva is reborn
There's never a dull moment in the land of Linux, and recent weeks have been no exception. Since no outlet can hope to give full coverage to every dev...
Article | 22/09/2010 Lawmakers call for smart grid access to wireless spectrum
Two U.S. lawmakers have asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to allow Internet-connected, electricity-monitoring devices to access unused ...
Article | 6/08/2010 US FCC calls off net neutrality negotiations
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has called off negotiations on a network neutrality compromise scheduled for the coming days, saying the ta...