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InternetNews June 10, 2005 Roy Mark |
Telecom Reform? Don't Bet On It Republicans are proposing subsidies and Democrats are offering tax incentives, and it's both good news and bad news for technology.  |
InternetNews October 14, 2005 Roy Mark |
Senate Panel Eyes Vote on Digital TV Switch Tech executives urge Congress to set a hard deadline for broadcasters to shift completely to digital signals of no later than 2009. The vacated analog signals would be given to first responders and auctioned. A vote on legislation could come Wednesday.  |
InternetNews June 30, 2006 Roy Mark |
Network Neutrality: Telecom Reform Spoiler? Lawmakers now face the tough election year question of killing telecom reform for an issue they admittedly don't understand.  |
InternetNews January 18, 2006 Roy Mark |
Senate Returns With Crowded Tech Agenda Congress kicks off 2006 legislative season with 14 tech-related hearings in two months.  |
InternetNews May 4, 2005 Roy Mark |
GOP Blames Dems for Slow Tech Agenda Texas Republican Tom DeLay says the Democratic party is only paying lip service to high tech issues.  |
InternetNews December 19, 2006 Roy Mark |
Looking Back: Net Neutrality Spoils Telecom Reform A review of the top stories and issues that rocked the tech industry in 2006.  |
InternetNews January 4, 2005 Roy Mark |
New Congress, Old Tech Issues Lawmakers return to Capitol Hill facing familiar demands from the IT industry and consumers including telecom reform and stock option expensing.  |
InternetNews December 19, 2005 Roy Mark |
DTV Transition Date Set The House approves the DTV transition date and the Senate expected to agree today.  |
InternetNews July 13, 2005 Roy Mark |
Broadcasters Agree to Hard Date DTV Transition After nine years of aggressive lobbying to slow the digital television transition, broadcasters are dropping their objections to a Jan. 1, 2009, deadline to end U.S. analog broadcasting.  |
InternetNews January 16, 2007 Roy Mark |
Coalition Pushes For DTV Transition Tech companies, trade groups urge Congress to hold fast to Feb. 17, 2009 cut-off as the end of analog broadcasting.  |
InternetNews October 20, 2005 Roy Mark |
DTV Deadline to Vacate Spectrum Advances The Senate Commerce Committee voted today to boot broadcasters out of their analog spectrum by no later than April 7, 2009. After that date, broadcasters would air programs only in digital signals.  |
Home Theater January 29, 2009 |
House Delays DTV Transition Delay The House of Representatives voted yesterday to keep the DTV transition running on schedule, defeating legislation that would have allowed some stations to delay the transition from February 17 to June 12.  |
InternetNews December 21, 2005 Roy Mark |
DTV Bill Heads to President's Desk With President Bush's signature, over-the-air analog broadcasting will go dark in three years.  |
InternetNews May 24, 2005 Roy Mark |
Barton Slaps Hard Deadline on DTV Transition House panel prepares for the first hearings on legislation stating that broadcasters must cease transmitting programs in analog format.  |
InternetNews May 26, 2005 Roy Mark |
Intel Chips in on DTV Transition Intel tells a Congressional panel that TV spectrum will accelerate wireless broadband roll-out.  |
InternetNews June 28, 2006 Roy Mark |
Senate Panel Kills Net Neutrality After almost two hours of often contentious debate, the Senate Commerce Committee defeated a measure to insert controversial network neutrality provisions into the panel's ambitious telecom reform legislation.  |
InternetNews February 7, 2007 Roy Mark |
DTV Coalition Plan No Cyren Call The High Tech DTV Coalition today criticized an alternative plan by Nextel founder Morgan O'Brien to use spectrum allocated for public safety communications by Congress.  |
InternetNews November 9, 2006 Roy Mark |
Lame Ducks Limp Back to Congress With a major power shift coming in January, Republican-led House and Senate return for mop-up session.  |
Home Theater January 16, 2009 |
Three-Month DTV Delay Urged Sen. John Rockefeller has introduced a bill that would delay the switchover from analog to digital broadcasting from the currently scheduled February 17th to June 12th.  |
InternetNews August 1, 2005 Roy Mark |
Pulver Counsel Pans Telecom Reform Bill Attorney for VoIP outfit fears sweeping telecom reform will only add to IP services rules and regulations.  |
InternetNews August 9, 2005 Roy Mark |
FCC: 'Net Neutrality' For All U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) urges Congress to make FCC's principles of open networks part of telecom reform.  |
InternetNews April 21, 2010 |
FCC Begins Moving USF Subsidy to Broadband In its first meeting following the release of the national broadband plan, Federal Communications Commission votes to convert USF subsidy to fund Internet service.  |
InternetNews December 17, 2004 Roy Mark |
A Busy Year for IT in DC Lawmakers and U.S. regulatory officials wrestled with a packed IT agenda this year, setting a policy course on a number of important and complex issues.  |
InternetNews January 7, 2005 Roy Mark |
Stumping For Telecom Reform at CES Telecom reformers will barnstorm the Consumer Electronics Show -- not for votes, but for help shaping telecom policy.  |
InternetNews November 30, 2005 Roy Mark |
Senate Sets Ambitious Tech Schedule Signaling its intent to focus on Internet and telecom issues next year, the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee plans to hold 14 hearings on a wide variety of technology topics between January and March.  |
InternetNews February 17, 2005 Roy Mark |
House Considers Subsidizing DTV Transition A new proposal aims to speed broadcasters' move to digital and open spectrum for advanced wireless services.  |
InternetNews May 6, 2005 Roy Mark |
Data Breach Law: Why Tech Doesn't Get It A national disclosure law is gaining steam but tech appears only steamed.  |
InternetNews December 26, 2006 Roy Mark |
New Leaders, Old Issues What's Next in Tech: Democratic lawmakers may put a new emphasis on network neutrality and data-privacy issues in 2007.  |
InternetNews January 8, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
FCC's Martin Reflects on Wins, Losses As his time at the helm of the FCC draws to a close, Kevin Martin talks about is tightrope act balancing an open market and regulation.  |
InternetNews September 30, 2005 Roy Mark |
Katrina May Blow Broadcasters Out of Analog More spectrum and money for first responders is getting renewed Congressional interest in the backwash of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.  |
InternetNews June 28, 2006 Roy Mark |
Telecom Reform Debate Enters Third Day While delaying network neutrality vote, lawmakers deal with a vast array of amendments to overall bill.  |
InternetNews February 8, 2011 |
FCC Begins USF Transition to Broadband Commissioners vote unanimously to begin the process of overhauling $8 billion federal telecom subsidy to eliminate waste and shift funding from telephone service to broadband.  |
InternetNews April 6, 2006 Roy Mark |
GOP Defeats Dem's Net Neutrality Moves House Republicans Wednesday strengthened net neutrality provisions in their working telecom reform legislation but turned back tougher measures demanded by Democrats.  |
InternetNews April 12, 2005 Roy Mark |
Telecom Reform Not Likely in 2005 National Chamber of Commerce chief predicts Congress not likely to pass legislation this year, including key changes to the Universal Service Fund consumers pay.  |
InternetNews March 15, 2007 Roy Mark |
House Democrats Blast FCC Policies Democrats found fault with the FCC's handling of the AT&T-BellSouth merger, broadband penetration rates, the digital television transition, cable franchise rules and lack of interoperability among first responders.  |
CIO November 15, 2005 Grant Gross |
Help for Emergency Responders The push for digital TV would hasten better communications.  |
InternetNews September 1, 2006 Roy Mark |
Cirque du Absurd The annual August congressional recess finds net neutrality proponents in high dudgeon on Labor Day holiday. Lawmakers, as usual, yawn.  |
InternetNews February 11, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
DTV Snags Loom Large Despite Delay FCC chairman warns of widespread confusion as many stations plan to shut off analog signals next week.  |
InternetNews August 17, 2007 Roy Mark |
FCC: Get Your Spectrum Paddles Ready The FCC's January 700MHz spectrum sale might be most compelling air-wave auction in years.  |
InternetNews April 26, 2005 Roy Mark |
Tech to TV Execs: Get Off the Beachfront! A group of IT CEOs urges Congress to set a date certain for digital TV transition so spectrum can be opened for wireless broadband.  |
CIO September 30, 2008 Grant Gross |
Where the Candidates Stand on Five Technology Issues The 2008 presidential election gives CIOs and other IT executives a choice of Republican nominee Senator John McCain and Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama who are both interested in technology-related issues.  |
InternetNews March 27, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
FCC Chair Hypes Spectrum Auction at CTIA So many flashy phones at CTIA, so little broadband access. But FCC chairman says that will change.  |
InternetNews July 27, 2005 Roy Mark |
Major Reform of Telecom Act Proposed Legislation calls for eliminating many current state and federal rules for delivering advanced communications services.  |
InternetNews June 9, 2006 Roy Mark |
House K.O.'s Net Neutrality Legislative language to make the controversial concept of network neutrality the law of the land failed in the U.S. House of Representatives.  |
InternetNews February 2, 2006 Roy Mark |
DTV Bill Heads to President's Desk Congress finally sent legislation Wednesday to President Bush that sets Feb. 17, 2009, as the end of analog broadcasting in the United States. After that, television sets must have digital tuners to receive an over-the-air signal.  |
InternetNews February 18, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
DTV Delay Can't Deter Verizon, White Spaces Fans The spectrum might be off-limits until June, but major telcos and tech firms are still pressing ahead with plans for the airwaves.  |
InternetNews March 28, 2006 Roy Mark |
Critics: Telecom Bill Guts Net Neutrality House Republicans previewed a fast track telecom reform bill Monday that promotes greater choice and lower prices in the pay television market but guts broadband network neutrality, according to consumer and advocacy groups.  |
InternetNews June 27, 2006 Roy Mark |
Net Neutrality Faces Senate Panel Vote The Senate Commerce Committee pushes vote on network traffic management rules to Wednesday morning.  |
InternetNews July 11, 2007 Roy Mark |
Verizon Gives Thumbs Down on Open Access Platforms Verizon Wireless told Congress today consumers would suffer if open access requirements are imposed on the January spectrum auction that is expected to open a new era in wireless broadband services.  |
InternetNews September 16, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
Are We Ready for DTV? After a DTV test launch in North Carolina, a House subcommittee questions the country's preparedness for February's nationwide transition.  |