OVERNIGHT TECH: Senators fence over Verizon spectrum deal

Source: Hillicon Valley | The Hill Blogs

The Lede: Both the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Antitrust subcommittee sent letters today to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and Attorney General Eric Holder. Sens. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) an ...
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Lawmakers question whether Google misled Congress on data collection

Source: Hillicon Valley | The Hill Blogs

Two Democratic lawmakers on Thursday questioned whether Google misled Congress and regulators over its collection of data from unprotected Wi-Fi networks. Reps. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) and John Barrow (D-Ga ...
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Boston Battles Back for Basic Rate Control

Source: Multichannel News

The city of Boston says Comcast's math does not add up, and that it should still be able to regulate basic rates. That came in a response to Comcast's request that the Federal Communications Commission r ...
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FCC Chair Responds to Grassley Criticisms of Transparency

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Chairman Julius Genachowski defended the Federal Communications Commission's openness and transparency Thursday against charges by Sen. Charles Grassley that it was one of the worst agencies at complying with document requests. That came at the pres ...
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Lawmakers call on DOJ to reopen investigation into Google Wi-Fi spying

Source: ComputerWorld

IDG News Service - Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after recent questions about the company's level of cooperation with ...
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Art Brodsky: When The FCC Chairman Comforted Cable

Source: The Huffington Post

There probably was no great need for Comcast to raise the usage caps on its broadband service, as it did last week from 250 gigabytes (GB) to 300 GB per month. If the company thought for an instant that the modest increase bo ...
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Sen. Kohl tells FCC, DOJ he has ‘serious concerns’ on Verizon deal with cable

Source: Post Tech | Washington Post Blogs

In a letter to the Justice Department and Federal Communications Commission, Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) didn’t oppose the deal outright, but he said any approvals should come with Verizon’s willingness to sell off some spectrum in ce ...
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U.S. weighs aircraft for post-disaster communications

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are looking for ways to accelerate the use of drones and other aerial technologies to restore communications after disasters like 2005's Hurricane Katrina, which knocked out phone servi ...
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FCC sets aside frequencies for medical devices

Source: Hillicon Valley | The Hill Blogs

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on Thursday to set aside radio frequency spectrum for wireless medical devices that can monitor a patient's body. The vote makes the United States the first country in the world to set aside spectrum s ...
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