T-Mobile fined $17.5 million for non-compilance on 911 outages in 2014


The Federal Communications Commission posted on July 17 about T-Mobile's $17.5 million fine for a failure to address two national outages lasting nearly 3 hours in August 8, 2014 that affected 911...

FCC Rules Against Petition to Delay Open Internet


On Friday, May 8, the Federal Communications Commission categorically denied requests to halt any reclassification of Internet service providers as common carriers. The petitioners were industry...

FCC Chairman brushes off Verizon’s excuse for throttling unlimited LTE plans


Verizon’s recent actions haven’t been too inspiring for FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler who even wrote a straightforward and rather harsh letter to the company regarding its plans to throttle some unlimited...

The Biggest Net Neutrality Lie


This week, filings are flooding into the FCC about its latest effort to pass “net neutrality” rules, the first phase of public comments on the proposal that will continue for the next several months...

John Oliver, Net Neutrality, and the Ghost of SOPA-PIPA


So now the net neutrality debate has its very own pop culture hook.  It’s been a week since HBO’s John Oliver unleashed his entertaining but scathing rant against the FCC and Chairman Tom...

There’s Nothing New About AT&T’s Sponsored Data (And Why the FCC Won’t Ban It)


Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Tom Wheeler has been urged to investigate AT&T's new Sponsored Data offering, whereby customers can use certain internet services without dipping...
    






FCC Chairman Gives Orders to Unlock Cell Phones


Tom Wheeler has been Chairman of the FCC for a fairly brief period of time. Yet he is a tough talker. The man has started issuing statements targeting the CTIA Wireless Association. The main issue is...