Top officials from the DOJ, Commerce, DHS and DOD briefed Senate committee staffers this week on the White House’s long awaited cybersecurity legislative proposal unveiled last week. The Obama Administration announcement is a series of proposed pieces of legislation in a number of different areas, all aimed at encouraging the protection of federal systems and…
AT&T has filed FCC applications to acquire another competitor. The FCC must decide whether the proposed license transfers are in the public interest . The FCC has already found deficiencies in competition among nationwide wireless carriers in its latest report. Recent Sprint deals with cash-poor Clearwire and spectrum starved non-operational start-up Lightsquared hardly alter the…
AT&T has filed FCC applications to acquire another competitor. The FCC must decide whether the proposed license transfers are in the public interest . The FCC has already found deficiencies in competition among nationwide wireless carriers in its latest report. Recent Sprint deals with cash-poor Clearwire and spectrum starved non-operational start-up Lightsquared hardly alter the…
AT&T has filed official paperwork to gobble another competitor with the agency charged with protecting the public interest and competition in a vital industry. That agency, the FCC, had already found a lack of competition among wireless carriers in its latest report. The FCC indicated in a public notice last week it had already begun…
AT&T has filed official paperwork to gobble another competitor with the agency charged with protecting the public interest and competition in a vital industry. That agency, the FCC, had already found a lack of competition among wireless carriers in its latest report. The FCC indicated in a public notice last week it had already begun…
Late last month FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski began circulating an order approving the proposed merger of Comcast with NBC Universal. Throughout the regulatory approval process lawmakers, industry groups, and consumer advocates have called on the FCC and the Department of Justice Antitrust Division to block the proposed combination because it provides no public interest benefits,…
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a measure Thursday that would give the government additional tools to pressure other companies to not do business with domains suspected of illegally sharing copyrighted material. Some due process for domains was added in during the markup ahead of the vote. This may mean that a domain would loose…
Senate Judiciary Committee leaders and staff are getting an earful from a broad coalition of tech companies, consumers’ groups and Internet engineers about a newly introduced bill it hoped to markup this week that would give the DOJ a new tool to essentially shut down domains accused of copyright infringement. Tech companies and consumer, library and privacy…
The Computer & Communications Industry Association welcomes the introduction of H.R. 5932, the Organized Retail Theft Investigation and Prosecution Act, by Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va.. The bill would establish an Organized Retail Theft Investigation and Prosecution Unit (ORTIP) in the Department of Justice. CCIA supports efforts to stop organized retail criminals, but previous legislative attempts…
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