Washington — After months of changing the rules to potentially make the proposed Sinclair takeover of additional stations legal, the FCC announced today it was referring the merger to an administrative law judge. Chairman Pai said in a statement he had serious concerns about the legality of the proposal to add Tribune’s 42 stations to…
Washington — The House Energy & Commerce Committee is meeting today (Tuesday) to consider the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Reauthorization Act. The following can be attributed to Computer & Communications Industry Association President & CEO Ed Black: “CCIA welcomes the Energy & Commerce Committee’s plans to reauthorize the NTIA, which has not been…
Washington — The House Energy & Commerce Committee is meeting today (Tuesday) to consider the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Reauthorization Act. The following can be attributed to Computer & Communications Industry Association President & CEO Ed Black: “CCIA welcomes the Energy & Commerce Committee’s plans to reauthorize the NTIA, which has not been…
Washington — As of today, the agency Congress created to oversee communications networks will no longer ban broadband internet service providers from slowing, blocking or discriminating against internet content. The FCC voted late last year to abdicate its role in protecting net neutrality. The internet has historically had these rules, but the largest ISPs have…
Washington — The Senate has acted pursuant to its authority under the Congressional Review Act to try rein in the action of a federal agency that it considers harmful. Today, the Senate voted to begin undoing the FCC’s misguided action last year to eliminate nondiscrimination rules on the internet known as net neutrality. The FCC…
Washington — As FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn ends her remarkable tenure, the Computer & Communications Industry Association is grateful for her service to our country. Clyburn is expected to give her final public speech tonight as an FCC Commissioner. The following can be attributed to CCIA President & CEO Ed Black: “Commissioner Clyburn has devoted…
Washington — Sprint and T-Mobile announced plans to merge Sunday. The third and fourth largest mobile phone carriers said the merger would help them compete with the two largest companies AT&T and Verizon. The Computer & Communications Industry Association has been a voice for greater competition within the technology industry since it was founded in…
Over the past few months of the net neutrality debate, the largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country, like AT&T and Comcast, have tried to profess that they have always been pro-net neutrality. These statements, like “We do not block, slow down or discriminate against lawful content”, however, are neither commitments about the future…
Washington, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ordered the transfer of petitions for review of the FCC’s recent order that repealed the 2015 Open Internet rules to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The D.C. Circuit has heard three separate appeals regarding net neutrality in this decade. Last week,…
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