FCC
CTA
CTA Centennial Part 6g (1985-2000): Platform Wars – HDTV (Part 2)
HDTV arrived despite conflicting profit, pride, political, power, and product motives
CTA
CTA Centennial Part 6g (1985-2000): Platform Wars – HDTV (Part 1)
Everyone watching modern TV – 2K standard HDTV, 4K, and 8K – is watching a bona fide miracle
CTA
CTA Centennial Part 3: The TV Age
The third in a series of essays exploring and celebrating CTA’s and our industry’s first century of invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship
CES
U.S. Senators Rosen, Lujan, & Lummis To Headline Policy Discussions At CES 2024
Other senior U.S. government officials to discuss policy during show
Industry
CEDIA Issues Its First Federal Filing
Association explains the importance of professional integration for cybersecurity
Products
Happy 50th Birthday To The Cellphone
Motorola executives made the first cellphone call on April 3, 1973, after a crash six-month development process - but a scheduled celebratory anniversary gala...
Another View
Robert McDowell: A COVID-19 Survivor’s Story – Multichannel News Exclusive Interview
Former FCC commissioner details his harrowing medical journey
CES
FCC Chair Pai Makes First CES Appearance; ‘New Net Neutrality Rules Working’
FCC chair Ajit Pai sat down with CTA president and CEO Gary Shapiro at CTA’s annual FCC/FTC session at CES 2020.
Keeping Current
The $26 Billion T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Has Officially Been Approved By The FCC
But a lawsuit needs to be resolved before it can go forward
Need to Know
FCC to Free Up 2.5GHz for 5G
Chairman says it is time to get the spectrum working for tribes, 5G
Industry
FCC’s Pai Recommends Approving T-Mobile-Sprint Merger
Cites commitments on 5G and rural buildout; deal looks like it will go through
IP Set-Top Boxes
FCC Warns Of Rise In Noncompliant Streaming Set-Tops
Says marketers of boxes could face hefty fines
Products
Huawei Pushes Back Hard At FCC
Said its tech is no more susceptible to vulnerabilities than U.S. companies
Industry
Trump Team Considers Nationalizing 5G: Axios
Threat from China said to be a key impetus for the idea
CES
Pai, FCC A No-Show At Annual CES SuperSession
The big news from the FCC/FTC SuperSession wasn’t necessarily what was said, but who wasn’t there.
news
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai To Brief Congress On Net Neutrality Rollback
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai is expected to brief the House Energy & Commerce Committee on his plans to roll back his...
Keeping Current
FCC Reverses Proposal For Cellphone Use On Planes
Federal regulators are withdrawing a proposal that would have allowed air travelers to use their cellphones at high altitude. “Taking it off the table...
Industry
House Votes To Repeal FCC Privacy Rules
In a victory for ISPs, advertisers and tech companies that had opposed the new Federal Communications Commission’s broadband privacy rules, the House voted primarily...
Industry
FCC’s Ajit Pai Tells Free Data Streamers To Binge On
Newly appointed Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai is giving his blessing to zero-rating programs from mobile carriers that the agency previously determined...
Industry
It’s Official: Pai Is FCC Chairman
FCC commissioner and Barack Obama nominee Ajit Pai has formally succeeded Tom Wheeler as chairman of the agency after being tapped last week by...
IP Set-Top Boxes
Set-Top Box Proposal Pulled From FCC Meeting
It appears Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Tom Wheeler could not secure the three votes needed for his set-top revamp proposal, at least not...
Keeping Current
Netflix To FCC: Unleash The Internet
In an Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing, the streaming-media site decried home broadband data caps of 300GB (Comcast), and unlimited mobile data for only...
IP Set-Top Boxes
New Rules: FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Pushes App Alternative To Cable Boxes
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler is going forward with a proposal that will force pay-TV providers to give customers access to all...
news
Copyright Office Has Big Issues With FCC Set-Top Plan
The U.S. Copyright Office told some House members this week that while it “welcomes and supports” the FCC’s stated goal of promoting competition and...
Industry
Court Upholds FCC’s Net Neutrality Rule
In a big victory for the FCC, the Obama Administration and FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for...
news
FCC’s Wheeler Said ATSC 3.0 Will Circulate This Month
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said the commission will take up the ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard. “ATSC 3.0 is significant,” he said, addressing...
news
Samsung, Roku Eliminating Need For Comcast Cable Boxes
Consumers with Samsung smart TVs, Roku players, and Roku TVs won’t need a Comcast cable box to get all of their Comcast content, including...
Keeping Current
FCC Won’t Probe Netflix For Throttling Video Over Wireless Networks
Netflix’s conduct is “outside” the FCC’s net neutrality rules, the FCC said, because the FCC regulates wireless networks, not “edge providers” or websites. “The...
Industry
FCC Unveils Wireless Auction Participants
The FCC has released the list of 104 applicants to its forward auction, which are the wireless companies and others who who applied to...
IP Set-Top Boxes
Divided FCC Votes to ‘Unlock’ Set-Tops
Following several weeks of almost constant public lobbying and importuning from both sides of the issue and the political aisle, a divided FCC, though...
IP Set-Top Boxes
FCC Set-Top-Box Rulemaking Could Boost Smart TV, Streaming-Player Sales
Sales of smart TVs and streaming-media players could get a boost under a proposal by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler to open...
news
Will Smart-TV Apps Replace The Cable/Satellite Set-Top Box?
Consumers might soon be able to toss out their rented pay-TV set-top boxes for smart-TV and tablet apps that access the programming of their...
Industry
CES 2016: Wheeler Predicts “Spectrum Extravaganza”
It’s going to be a spectrum extravaganza when the FCC auction of TV spectrum to Internet providers kicks off in March, Tom Wheeler told...
news
FCC’s Wheeler Says Binge-On, T-Mobile
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Tom Wheeler appeared to endorse T-Mobile’s new Binge On free video-streaming plan today, calling it “highly innovative and highly...
Industry
FCC Approves AT&T-DirecTV Merger
AT&T’s proposed $48.5 billion acquisition of DirecTV is a step closer to the finish line after the FCC blessed the deal with a host...
Industry
Wheeler Confirms AT&T/DirecTV Approval Order Circulation
Following news reports that the merger of AT&T with DirecTV will be approved, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler confirmed the stories and outlined the key...
Industry
FCC’s Wheeler Evokes ‘Vast Wasteland’ Analogy On Broadband Competition
Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler essentially branded the broadband competition landscape a vast wasteland, evoking an earlier FCC chairman’s iconic dressing down of...
Blogs
Wheeler Explains FCC’s Open-Internet Vote
For over a decade, the Commission has endeavored to protect and promote the open Internet. FCC Chairs and Commissioners, Republican and Democrat alike, have...
news
FCC’s Wheeler Proposes Open-Internet Rules
FCC chairman Tom Wheeler has made official what he had already signaled for weeks. In an op ed in Wired Magazine online, Wheeler said...
news
Carriers Spend $41.3 Billion For More Wireless Spectrum
Washington — Verizon, AT&T and Dish came away from the FCC’s AWS-3 (Advanced Wireless Services 3) spectrum auctions as the biggest winners followed by...
Computers
FCC Ups Sec. 706 Broadband Speed to 25 Mbps
WASHINGTON — The FCC majority has voted to up the definition of high-speed broadband in its annual Sec. 706 report from 4 Mbps downstream/1...