The Sunlight Foundation reports that Pennsylvania Rep. Robert Brady signed a letter to the Federal Communications Commission critical of its new netwo...
Timothy Karr | Posted 08.09.2009 | Media
Why should consumers be hobbled by deals that allow carriers to tie down the hottest new devices and block our ability to use them as they're intended?
Art Brodsky | Posted 02.09.2009 | Media
If new areas are to be served, and if underserved areas are to be upgraded, then either the incumbent telecom companies have to clean up their acts, or they have to make way for others.
Craig Newmark | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business
Net neutrality sounds abstract, but it's pretty simple: It's about the Internet being a level playing field for everyone who wants to use it as their own printing press.
Epicenter | Meghan Keane | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business
Plans to offer national free wireless Internet access got a boost on Friday when the Federal Communications Commission released a report stating that ...
Bill Scher | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
Obama's recent statement on the new surveillance bill serves as a reminder that he is a politician. Not in either a negative or positive sense. It's just a plain fact.
CBS News | David S. Morgan | Posted 06.29.2008 | Politics
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., issued a statement in support of the House's update of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but said he would try to ...
Politico | Chris Frates | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
When a federal judge ordered Rep. Jim McDermott to pay House Minority Leader John A. Boehner and his attorneys more than $1 million in damages and leg...
USA Today | Matt Kelley | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics
Republican presidential candidate John McCain has condemned the influence of "special interest lobbyists," yet dozens of lobbyists have political and ...
Wired | Ryan Singel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
House Judiciary Committee Democrats say they analyzed the telecom spying documents they've sought for more than a year and have come to the conclusion...
TPMmuckraker | Paul Kiel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
You've heard from President Bush over and over and over and over again about the imminent danger the country is in. And you've heard from the director...
Political Radar | Byron Wolf | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Senate Democrats held a special meeting Thursday to decide on two bills both with a deadline of February 15. In between now and then...is Super Tuesda...
Colorado Confidential | Dan Whipple | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Political donations from the telecom industry show a strong change from Republicans to Democrats over the last three election cycles. The Qwest pledg...
Silicon Valley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Don't expect to see former Sprint Nextel (S) CEO Gary Forsee back in the wireless scene any time soon: The long-time telecom exec will be named presid...
The Hill | Manu Raju | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Tuesday he would seek to extend a controversial interim wiretapping law through February to avoid the ea...
The New York Times | By ERIC LICHTBLAU and SCOTT SHANE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Executives at the two biggest phone companies contributed more than $42,000 in political donations to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV this year while s...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business