Under pressure from Congress and telecom carriers, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin decides to drop vote on proposal to impose a free wireless broadband mandate on the FCC's next spectrum auction. - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin finally gave in to pressure Dec. 12 from both Congress and the Bush administration to cancel a scheduled Dec. 18 agency vote on a controversial pro...

The U.S. faces an urgent problem in a looming spectrum shortage, Blair Levin, executive director of the Omnibus Broadband Initiative for the Federal Communications Commission, told SuperCOMM attendees today Looking for our newsletter content? Subscribe now and get access to content not available on our Web site or RSS feeds. Telephony Email Newsletters

The Federal Communications Commission unveiled its view of an open Internet with Chief Julius Genachowski explaining the new administrations plans to keep access to the Internet free and open, regardless of access mechanism.

The Federal Communications Commission unveiled its view of an open Internet with Chief Julius Genachowski explaining the new administrations plans to keep access to the Internet free and open, regardless of access mechanism.

The message itself was fairly vanilla, but the line-up of companies supporting a letter to the Federal Communications Commission this morning calling for a more open Internet should turn some heads Looking for our newsletter content? Subscribe now and get access to content not available on our Web site or RSS feeds. Telephony Email Newsletters

“A proposal to create a free, national wireless Internet service got a boost as Federal Communications Commission engineers concluded that concerns are overblown about such service interfering with other carriers.”

As the clock ticks down on the lame duck administration, White House states opposition to FCC plan to condition spectrum auction on winner providing free tier of broadband service. White House, wireless carriers and CTIA insist a high bidder, no strings attached auction is the most efficient use of spectrum. - The Bush administration is opposing a Federal Communications Commission spectrum auction...

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski outlined the concrete actions he believes the Commission must take to preserve the free and open Internet at a speech at The Brookings Institution on Monday.Continue reading...

The wireless industry is gearing up to fight new Net neutrality rules that the Federal Communications Commission is formulating to keep the Internet open, notes C/Net. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, in his speech (pdf) on Monday, proposed a set of rules for Net Neutrality, with the hope of later issuing a more formal Notice of

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plans to unveil proposals Monday for ensuring Web traffic is not slowed or blocked based on its content, sources familiar with the contents of the speech said on Friday. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will announce plans to ask his fellow commissioners to adopt as a rule net neutrality and four existing