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If T-Mobile’s giant outage affected you, now’s your chance to tell the FCC

Enlarge / A pigeon rests on a T-Mobile logo outside a mobile phone store, operated by Deutsche Telekom AG, in Munich, Germany, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. Getty Images | Bloomberg The Federal Communications Commission is kicking off its investigation of last week’s T-Mobile outage by seeking public comment. Government agencies, public safety entities, businesses, […]

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FCC moves closer to establishing 988 suicide prevention hotline

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Igor Golovniov/Getty Images The US Federal Communications Commission will vote on the final rules to designate 988 as the three-digit number for a national suicide prevention and mental health hotline. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on Tuesday said the final vote will take place July 16. “988 will save lives,” said Pai in a release from

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The Internet Needs a New Architecture that Puts Users First

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Quarantine has changed the way we connect, online and off. As we rely on the internet more and more for work, social connections, and basic needs, it is time to talk about the future of meaningful online experiences, and the need for a new internet architecture. We need a user-focused, localized internet. This competitive architecture

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1 billion robocalls net $225M FCC fine that will likely never be collected

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Getty Images | Juj Winn The Federal Communications Commission today proposed a $225 million fine for health-insurance telemarketers who “made approximately 1 billion spoofed robocalls across the country during the first four and a half months of 2019.” But the FCC’s track record in collecting on proposed fines is so poor that the fine is

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FCC has “serious doubts” that SpaceX can deliver latencies under 100ms

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The Federal Communications Commission said it has “serious doubts” that SpaceX and other low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite providers will be able to deliver latencies of less than 100ms. As we reported yesterday, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai backed off a plan that would have completely prevented SpaceX and other LEO companies from applying for rural-broadband funding

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FCC failed to monitor Chinese telecoms for almost 20 years: Senate report

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Enlarge / The flag of China. The Federal Communications Commission and other US agencies have failed to properly oversee Chinese telecom companies that operate in the United States, according to a bipartisan Senate report released today. After a year-long investigation, the staff report by the US Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations “found that the FCC

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FCC Approves T-Mobile and Sprint Merger But Opposition Remains

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CNBC is reporting that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted to approve the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint. While the deal had earlier received approval from the Department of Justice (DOJ), the FCC’s approval is one of the final steps needed before the merger is finalized. The FCC’s commissioners voted along party lines to

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T-Mobile and Sprint get FCC approval to merge in 3-2 party-line vote

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Enlarge / Federal Communication Commission Republican members (L-R) Brendan Carr, Michael O’Rielly, and Chairman Ajit Pai participate in a discussion during the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 23, 2018 in National Harbor, Maryland. The Federal Communications Commission has voted 3-2 to approve T-Mobile’s acquisition of Sprint, an FCC spokesperson confirmed to Ars today. Republican

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Court upholds FCC repeal of net neutrality but allows states to regulate internet

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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai On Tuesday, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals upheld most of the FCC’s 2017 unpopular repeal net neutrality. However, the court ruled the agency’s attempt to preempt individual states from creating new rules to regulate ISPs and telcos was illegal. The backstory. Net neutrality was passed during the second term of

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Two Google Nest WiFi devices with Thread IOT radios pass through the FCC – Ausdroid

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Earlier this it was rumoured that Google would be releasing two new Google Nest WiFi devices — now those very same devices have just gone through the FCC. This all but confirms that Google will indeed be releasing an Eero-style following up to the Google WiFi at the Made by Google event in just a

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