Julius Genachowski

When The FCC Chairman Comforted Cable

Art Brodsky | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Comcast, Julius Genachowski, AT&T, Federal Communications Commission, Data Caps, Technology News
Art Brodsky

There probably was no great need for Comcast to raise the usage caps on its broadband service, as it did last week from 250 GB to 300 GB per month. If the company thought for an instant that the modest increase bought it any good will from its theoretical regulators, it needn't have bothered.

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Going Dutch a Great Idea for the Internet

Art Brodsky | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Verizon, Eduardo Porter, Julius Genachowski, Net Neutrality, Netherlands, Technology News
Art Brodsky

Earlier this week, the Dutch government gave final approval to one of the strongest open Internet laws in the world. Imagine that. A government guaranteeing through law that Internet connections can't be manipulated by big telecom companies.

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FCC Head Blasts AT&T

Reuters | Sinead Carew and Jasmin Melvin | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Julius Genachowski Fcc, T-Mobile, Fcc AT&T, Video, AT&T Fcc, Julius Genachowski, Fcc Julius Genachowski, AT&T, Reuters, Technology News

By Sinead Carew and Jasmin Melvin NEW ORLEANS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. communications regulator on Tuesday defended his oppo...

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Paul Blumenthal

Bold FCC Move Makes 2012 Election Ads More Transparent

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Transparency, Video, 2012 Elections, Fcc, Julius Genachowski, Advertising, 2012 Election, Federal Communications Commission, Campaign Ads, Elections 2012, Citizens United, Mignon Clyburn, Campaign Finance, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The home stretch of the 2012 general election is set to be one of the most transparent in terms of public knowledge about political adve...

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I'm Big Bird and I Don't Approve This Message

Bill Moyers | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Super Pac, Fcc, Julius Genachowski, Public Television, Republicans, Kmtp, Kpbs, Ksfr, Pbs, Campaign Ads, Media News
Bill Moyers

Imagine if you turned on your TV set someday soon and were greeted by Sesame Street, brought to you by the letter C, for "creeping campaign cash corruption." Perhaps that's a bit of a stretch, but as the late William F. Buckley, Jr., used to say, the point survives the exaggeration.

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Paul Blumenthal

FCC Chair Blasts Broadcasters For Opposing 'Technology.. Transparency.. Journalism'

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Super Pac, Video, Fcc, Julius Genachowski, 2012 Election, Super PACs, Federal Communications Commission, Fcc Political Ads Disclosure, Elections 2012, Political Ads, Chairman Julius Genachowski, Citizens United, Campaign Finance, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, staked out strong ground Monday in support of a plan to make info...

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Carriers Join Forces To Fight Cellphone Theft

AP | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Cellphone Theft, Stolen Cellphone Database, Fcc, Julius Genachowski, AT&T, Federal Communications Commission, Deutsche Telekom AG, Mobile Phones, T-Mobile USA, Cellphones, Verizon Communications, Major Cities Chiefs Association, Sprint Nextel Corp., Technology News

WASHINGTON — Cellphone companies and the government are trying to make it as difficult to use a stolen cellphone as it is to sell a stolen car. ...

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The Promise of Education Technology (It's Not Just About Lighter Backpacks)

Joel I. Klein | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Joel Klein, Textbooks, Technology in Education, Education Technology, Arne Duncan, Julius Genachowski, Digital Textbooks, Education News
Joel I. Klein

The Obama Administration's push for digital textbooks, while useful, represents only initial steps on the proverbial thousand mile journey.

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Obama Administration's Challenge To Schools: Embrace Digital Textbooks Within 5 Years

AP | By KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Education Technology, Ipad Textbooks, Playbook, Barack Obama, Digital Learning, Secretary of Education, Digital Education, Arne Duncan, Textbooks, Technology in Schools, Julius Genachowski, Digital Books, Digital Textbooks, Apple Education Event, Ipad, Ebooks, Video, Education News

WASHINGTON -- Are hardbound textbooks going the way of slide rules and typewriters in schools? Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Federal Communicat...

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An AT&T/Verizon Story: Why Nothing Is Ever 'Over' in Washington

Art Brodsky | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: T-Mobile, Verizon, Fcc, Julius Genachowski, John Kerry, AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Net Neutrality, Att Tmobile Merger, Technology News
Art Brodsky

On the menu are AT&T's failed takeover of T-Mobile, a bill to set rules for spectrum auctions, a payroll tax bill pending in Congress, a bill to change FCC procedures, and Verizon's planned collaboration with Comcast and other cable companies.

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Gerry Smith

F.C.C. Chair Announces New Plan To Bridge Digital Divide

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Video, Dial-Up, Broadband, Julius Genachowski, Fcc Lifeline Program, Fcc, Federal Communications Commission, Fcc Lifeline, FCC Broadband, National Broadband Plan, Lifeline Program, Digital Divide, Technology News

The head of the Federal Communications Commission on Monday announced a new plan to expand broadband Internet access by modernizing a program that pro...

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Loud TV Commercials May Soon Be A Thing Of The Past

Los Angeles Times | Joe Flint | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Television, Julius Genachowski, Fcc, Loud Tv Commercials, Steve Levitan, Anna G. Eshoo, Federal Communications Commission, Michael J. Copps, TV Commercials, Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act, Dick O'Brien, Media News

Excessively loud television commercials should be a thing of the past, thanks to the Federal Communications Commission. Responding to years of comp...

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How AT&T's Takeover of T-Mobile Went Wrong (Or Didn't)

Art Brodsky | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Antitrust, Justice Department, Fcc, Julius Genachowski, AT&T T-Mobile Merger, AT&T, Technology News
Art Brodsky

It's obvious to most observers that AT&T's attempt to take over T-Mobile is all but dead. The post-mortems are starting and the question being asked is: what went wrong for AT&T?

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Is the Obama FCC Really Pushing Bush's Failed Media Policies?

Craig Aaron | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Media Consolidation, Julius Genachowski, Fcc, Media Ownership, Barack Obama, Media News
Craig Aaron

What we need isn't more disastrous media consolidation. We need media that truly represent, as Barack Obama himself said not long ago, "all of the voices in our diverse nation." We won't get there if we fall back on the failed policies of the past.

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Think the FCC Killed AT&T's Plan to Take Over T-Mobile? Not So Fast

Art Brodsky | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: T-Mobile, Julius Genachowski, Wireless Spectrum, AT&T, Federal Communications Commission, Technology News
Art Brodsky

With any other company, in any other merger, the action the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced on Tuesday would be the signal that a deal is dead. But when one of the parties involved is AT&T, the rules don't apply.

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The FCC Could Create Thousands of Jobs -- But Won't

Art Brodsky | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: T-Mobile, Julius Genachowski, Fcc, Tea Party, AT&T, Net Neutrality, Technology News
Art Brodsky

Forget creating jobs. Forget creating consumer choice, and forget protecting consumers. None of that matters when Big Telecom comes knocking on the door.

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Senators' Choice: Their Constituents Future or Big Telecom. Hmmm...

Art Brodsky | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Fred Upton, U.S. Senate, Broadband, Julius Genachowski, Net Neutrality, Federal Communications Commission, Olympia Snowe, Technology News
Art Brodsky

Regulate the Internet? Seize control? That's all nonsense, but nonsense to which our elected representatives, through the influence of the Tea Party and the big telecom companies, are willing to accede.

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Connecting America's Jobs Plan to the Mobile Future

Jonathan Spalter | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Mobile Policy, Julius Genachowski, Fcc, Mobile Technology, Mobile, Mobile Phones, Wireless, Obama, Technology News
Jonathan Spalter

It's critical that leaders on both sides of the partisan divide recognize that U.S. mobile policy is a poster-child for just the sort of forward momentum the President and leaders in Congress are seeking to gather to get the nation back on a healthy and sustainable job growth track.

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It's Time for the FCC to Step Up for Sports Fans

Brian Frederick | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: New York Rangers, Terrestrial Loophole, Cablevision, Julius Genachowski, Fcc, Comcast NBC Universal, DISH Network, Portland Trail Blazers, Comcast, New York Knicks, Philadelphia Phillies, Cox, San Diego Padres, Oregon, Directv, Sports News
Brian Frederick

The FCC has leveled the playing field and the Courts have upheld their authority. Now it's time for the FCC to actually enforce its own ruling

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The Spectrum "Crunch" Bar

Mike Smith | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Spectrum, Consumer Electronics Association, Gordon Smith, Nab, Julius Genachowski, Fcc, FCC Broadband, Cea, Wireless Spectrum, Brookings Institution, CTIA Wireless, Technology News
Mike Smith

A Brookings Institution report says 99% of smartphones will have WiFi capability within the next two years. Goodbye TV? In South Korea 23 million people use digital mobile broadcast. They watch content and TV programs on smartphones.

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Is Comcast's New Lobbyist Really That Much of a BFD?

Art Brodsky | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Fcc Commissioners, Meredith Attwell Baker, Julius Genachowski, Meredith Attwell Baker Fcc, Meredith Attwell Baker Nbcuniversal, Federal Communications Commission, Comcast NBC Universal, Technology News
Art Brodsky

Meredith Attwell Baker is the current FCC member who is leaving to join Comcast after having voted to allow Comcast to take over NBC-Universal. The timing of Baker's departure "looks bad." But looking bad isn't the same as being bad.

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FCC Commissioner Joins NBCUniversal 4 Months After Approving Merger

The Wrap | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: NBC Universal, Ntia, Fcc, Julius Genachowski, Federal Communications Commission, Fcc Commissioner, Regulation, National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA), Chris Dodd, Comcast, Meredith Attwell Baker, Comcast NBC, Nbcuniversal, Media News

Only in Washington! A mere four months after voting in favor of Comcast's controversial $13.75 billion purchase of NBC-Universal, Meredith Attwell ...

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Don't Deny the Mobile Capacity Crunch

Jonathan Spalter | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Spectrum, Broadband, Julius Genachowski, Fcc, Mobile Technology, Mobile, FCC Chairman, Mobile Phones, Wireless, Wireless Spectrum, Technology News
Jonathan Spalter

The details of the spectrum debate at times can seem inscrutable and abstract to all but the most ardent of policy wonks. But the stakes for consumers and our economy couldn't be more plainly evident.

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Clogged Mobile Networks May Tap TV Airwaves

The Huffington Post | Thomas Houston | Posted 06.22.2011

Read More: Spectrum Crisis, Cell Phone Tv, Tv Spectrum, Fcc, Julius Genachowski, Federal Communications Commission, Spectrum-Crunch, Cellphone Tv, Wireless Spectrum, Spectrum Crunch, Tv Airwaves, Technology News

Federal Communications Commission chief Julius Genachowski told Washington D.C.'s Economic Club on Wednesday that the dwindling electromagnetic spectr...

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The Wavelength: The Battle Over Net Neutrality Rages On

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Fcc, Wavelength, Truthout, Ncmr, Antitrust, Stephanie Mencimer, Oakland Local, Julius Genachowski, NADIA PRUDIS, Michael Copps, Net Neutrality, Sarah Jones, Grittv, AT&T, Google, New America Media, T-Mobile, Merger, The WAVELENGTH, Mother Jones, Media News
The Media Consortium

By Eric K. Arnold, Media Consortium blogger Four months after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) supposedly settled the issue, the battle ove...

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