FCC News

The spectrum freed up for Wi-Fi is a finite resource. Too many devices can congest the networks and slow down service for everybody. The FCC wants to prevent that from happening, a...

FCC Report Shows ISPs Are Mostly Delivering What You Pay For

Once a year, with no specific schedule in mind, the FCC offers up a report on broadband quality...

The Case For Faster, Cheaper Internet

The United States has a problem - our Internet costs far too much for spee...

FCC Challenges All 50 States To Each Get At Least One Gigabit Network By 2015

For millions of Americans, having access to speedy Internet is still an...

Advocacy Groups Urge FCC To Investigate Data Caps

At CES, Sen. Ron Wyden laid out his tec...

It’s Been a Good Year for Unnecessary Censorship [VIDEO]

Every week, Jimmy Kimmel pays tribute gives a giant f**k you to the FCC with his segment "This Week in Unnecessary Censorship." A w...

AT&T Fined $700,000 by the FCC Over Plan-Switching

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission this week issued an Enforcement Bureau consent decree stating that AT&T has agreed to...

FCC Needs Your Help In Testing Mobile Broadband Speeds

The FCC, love 'em or hate 'em, has been instrumental in increasing broadband speeds across America. The National Broadband Plan has encouraged ISPs to increase their speeds and spr...

FCC Report Shows Rural Communities Still Don’t Have Broadband

There was a sign of hope earlier this month. A sign that maybe, just maybe, a...

US Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Butts, Cuss Words

The Supreme Court of the United States has unanimously dismissed some fines divvied out to television broadcasters by the Federal Communications Commission due to cussing and the o...

Google “Surprised” that UK Privacy Agency Cares About Privacy

The Information Commissioner's Office in the United Kingdom announced last week that it would be...

Google Street View Faces Probe in Australia

The Google Street View wi-fi spying scandal may have been...

$200 Million Raised for Gigabit-Per-Second Broadband Initiative

A startup in Ohio called Gigabit Squared has raised roughly $200 million to fund a gigabit-per-second broadband...

FCC Rule Change Would Pave The Way For Internet TV

A little while ago we brought you news that FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski had voiced support for usage-based pricing of broadband internet service. Speaking at the annual confere...

FCC Chairman Supports Usage-Based Broadband Pricing

You probably remember the early days of the internet's growth and popularity in the 1990s, when more and more people were getting computers with dial-up modems and people were stil...

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