FCC moves to decrease the digital divide
The FCC took steps to narrow the digital divide in the United States this week. The vote proved contentious, but in the end the commission approved a subsidy to help low-income consumers afford broadband...
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FCC caps exorbitant rates on telephone calls placed from prison
Relief for prisoners and their families came from an unusual place Thursday: the Federal Communications Commission. The commission approved a measure to cut add-on fees and cap rates on prisoner phone calls. Tanya Snyder...
FSRN Weekly Edition – March 20, 2015
Netanyahu back peddles; U.S. still to reevaluate backing Israel at UN Netanyahu reelection raises concerns in Gaza and renews calls for unity among Palestinans Regional elections in Spain will be first test for anti-austerity...
House Oversight Committee grills FCC commissioners regarding internet rule change
House Republicans got their chance to grill Federal Communications Commission Chair Tom Wheeler this week, after the agency voted in favor of regulating the internet as a utility. Internet freedom advocates celebrated the FCC’s...
FSRN Weekly Edition – February 27, 2015
FCC approves measure to categorize internet service as a public utility DHS budget becomes the latest partisan funding impasse on Capitol Hill Prisoner transfers continue after weekend uprising in Texas “tent city” facility Wisconsin...
FCC approves measure to categorize internet service as a public utility
Today the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, passed two important measures for equal internet access in a party line 3-2 vote. The first overrules state limits placed on Wilson, North Carolina, and Chattanooga, Tennessee...
FSRN Weekly Edition – February 20, 2015
Federal judge blocks implementation of immigration-related executive actions FCC to vote on proposal to regulate the internet as a utility Murder of Turkish college student leads to revolt against sexual violence Public sector workers...
FCC to vote on proposal to regulate the internet as a utility
The Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, will soon vote on a proposal by Chairman Tom Wheeler to classify the internet as a utility. Many net neutrality advocates seen this as as a victory, but...
NYC rally for net neutrality on final day for FCC public comments
Download audio Today marks the final day the Federal Communications Commission is accepting public comments on proposed rule changes for the open Internet. Advocates of net neutrality say the proposal submitted by FCC Commissioner...
FSRN Weekly Edition – July 18, 2014
Israel launched ground invasion of Gaza Strip U.S. teen beaten in Jerusalem returns to Tampa FCC receives more than a million public comments on net neutrality Anti-fracking activists rally with opponents of LNG export...
