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InternetNews March 21, 2006 Roy Mark	Verizon's Broadband Regulatory Relief Verizon Communications scored a major victory Monday when a sharply divided Federal Communications Commission approved the telecom giant's petition to deregulate its commercial broadband lines.
InternetNews April 8, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	FCC Takes First Step Toward Broadband Strategy FCC formally begins work to draw a roadmap for universal, affordable access to high-speed Internet as directed under the economic stimulus package.
InternetNews September 3, 2010	FCC Study Finds Broadband Speeds Lagging In its latest snapshot of the broadband market, Federal Communications Commission finds that less than half of households have sufficient connection speeds.
InternetNews August 5, 2005 Roy Mark	Bells Free From DSL Obligations In a significant policy victory for the incumbent carriers, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unanimously voted today to eliminate DSL line-sharing rules. The FCC imposes a one-year transition period for ISPs to renegotiate.
InternetNews April 30, 2010	ISPs Urge FCC to Resist Broadband Regulation A band of cable and telecom firms and their lobbying organizations issue a warning to Federal Communications Commission telling it to keep broadband unregulated.
InternetNews April 13, 2010	Net Neutrality Camp Looks to Title II Switch Following the ruling of a federal appeals court voiding the FCC's ruling in the Comcast/BitTorrent case, open Internet advocates warns that the commission needs to tighten up its regulatory authority.
InternetNews July 20, 2007 Roy Mark	Legislation Would Force New Broadband Rates Senate Commerce Committee approves legislation drilling deeper into broadband penetration rates.
InternetNews April 14, 2010	Comcast Case Looms Large in Senate Hearing Proceeding convened to discuss national broadband plan treads heavily on FCC's authority after court struck down commission's 2008 order in Comcast case.
InternetNews July 22, 2010	GOP Senators Aim to Sink FCC Broadband Plans Taking aim at net neutrality, seven Republican lawmakers blast the Federal Communications Commission's moves on broadband, and introduce legislation to freeze it in its tracks.
InternetNews June 17, 2010 Kenneth Corbin	Fight Over FCC Broadband Regulation Begins Commissioners vote to begin process of reclassifying broadband as a regulated telecommunications service, but there's opposition and other ideas on the table.
InternetNews May 25, 2010	Next Steps for FCC's Broadband Plan After striking out in court, the FCC's general counsel plots his next moves to regulate the broadband services sector.
InternetNews April 1, 2004 Roy Mark	Court Refuses to Review FCC Modem Rule Ninth Circuit upholds decision saying cable broadband is subject to common carrier rules.
InternetNews May 20, 2010	FCC Officials Debate Wireless Competition Democrat and Republican members of the FCC react differently to the agency's annual report on the state of competition in the wireless industry.
InternetNews March 11, 2010	FCC Mulling Free Broadband Plan, Again As more details surface of the national broadband plan the Federal Communications Commission is preparing to deliver to Congress, the commission said it will consider a plan to develop a free or low-cost wireless broadband network.
InternetNews May 25, 2007 Roy Mark	Bill Seeks to 'Get Our Broadband House in Order' Senator Inouye wants the FCC to devise a better formula for measuring broadband penetration rates.
InternetNews March 15, 2010	FCC Broadband Plan Eyes Competition, Spectrum Senior officials offer an advance copy of the long-awaited national broadband plan, outlining the commission's recommendations to spur competition in the service market and advance mobile broadband.
InternetNews September 9, 2004 Roy Mark	FCC Splits on U.S. Broadband Rollout Success Despite the U.S. being ranked eleventh in the world in broadband penetration, commissioners narrowly approve a report to Congress praising deployment rates of high-speed services.
InternetNews April 9, 2010	FCC Details Broadband Plans After Legal Setback Federal Communications Commission chairman argues that court ruling has little bearing on its broadband agenda for the rest of the year, which will tackle spectrum, universal service and a host of other issues.
InternetNews February 10, 2006 Roy Mark	Video Competition Boosting Broadband Penetration High-speed Internet service is riding on the battle between Bells and cable companies.
InternetNews November 3, 2006 Roy Mark	Net Neut. Delays AT&T-BellSouth Vote Again FCC remains deadlocked over attaching additional network neutrality conditions to deal.
InternetNews August 26, 2005 Roy Mark	Same Broadband Numbers, Different Conclusions Consumer advocates claim the FCC is misleading public about pace of broadband rollout -- and DSL and cable modem users are paying more because of it.
InternetNews June 21, 2006 Roy Mark	VoIP Bills Set to Increase In a long anticipated move, the Federal Communications Commission ruled today Voice over IP services must contribute a portion of their revenues to the Universal Service Fund
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 March 23, 2007 Roy Mark	FCC Begins Net Neutrality Inquiry The FCC launches a period of public comment on need for network neutrality provisions.
PHONE+ June 5, 2009 Kelly M. Teal	National Broadband Policy Up for Comment The FCC will close the first round of comments on a national broadband strategy early next week.
InternetNews February 9, 2011	FCC Boss Ties Broadband to Obama Jobs Agenda Federal Communications Commission argues that robust broadband infrastructure is central to creating a business climate that will drive job growth in the 21st century.
InternetNews May 9, 2006 Roy Mark	Bush Broadband Goal Fading A new Government Accountability Office report says 28 percent of Americans had high-speed connections in 2005.
Information Today December 23, 2010	FCC Approves Net Neutrality Rules The Federal Communications Commission announced that it has "acted to preserve the Internet as an open network enabling consumer choice, freedom of expression, user control, competition and the freedom to innovate."
InternetNews August 4, 2005 Roy Mark	Feds Bless Sprint-Nextel Merger The FCC will require the merged company to offer advanced wireless broadband services within four years.
InternetNews September 18, 2009	FCC Chair Set for Net Neutrality Play In a speech scheduled for Monday, expect the FCC's Julius Genachowski to detail his broadband policy agenda.
InternetNews March 23, 2005 Roy Mark	Brand X Case Challenges Open Access Rules Supreme Court to hear case questioning 2002 FCC decision declaring cable modems an information service.
InternetNews June 18, 2010	ISPs Rip FCC's Broadband Proposal Internet service providers offer sharp reactions to Federal Communications Commission's proposal to reclassify broadband as a regulated Title II service.
InternetNews January 14, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Genachowski Lands Praise as Obama FCC Pick In a rare moment of unity, industry and public interest groups laud the choice as bringing a mix of government and business experience to the role.
InternetNews August 21, 2009	Feds Want to Know How to Define 'Broadband' As it presses ahead with its work developing a national broadband strategy, the Federal Communications Commission has issued a public notice asking for input on what, exactly, broadband should mean.
InternetNews March 31, 2004 Colin C. Haley	Bush Calls for Universal Broadband by 2007 The president calls for affordable, high-speed Internet access for all Americans. How to get there?
PC Magazine November 1, 2009 Chloe Albanesius	The Truth About Broadband According to a new study, "high-speed" Internet may be an overstatement.
InternetNews August 18, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Broadband Use: Growing or Not? Is broadband use expanding or slowing down? Depends on who you ask.
InternetNews March 25, 2010	FCC Grilled on Spectrum, Net Neutrality Plans Commissioners appear on the Hill for first congressional proceeding on national broadband plan, airing opposing views on competition and regulatory frameworks.
InternetNews September 11, 2009	FCC Chair Pledges New Media, Web 2.0 Push Genachowski talks up ongoing efforts to bring the FCC into the Web 2.0 era.
InternetNews November 17, 2005 Roy Mark	Abernathy Resigns From FCC Republican Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy's departure may leave Democrats temporarily in control as Senate considers Bush nominations to the Federal Communications Commission.
InternetNews January 26, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Academics Skewer U.S. Broadband Record University researchers join calls for revamped communications and tech policies in Washington.
InternetNews December 4, 2006 Roy Mark	FCC Chairman Wants to Break AT&T-BellSouth Lock Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin has ordered agency lawyers to determine if FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell can "unrecuse" himself from the AT&T-BellSouth merger vote.
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Willie D. Jones	United States Establishes "Level Playing Field" in Broadband--Or Does It? Reversing a longtime stance, the FCC no longer maintains that offering consumers broadband services on attractive terms requires there to be competing providers of digital subscriber line, or DSL, service.
InternetNews October 26, 2004 Roy Mark	Kerry, Bush Split on Broadband Senator John Kerry wants to use federal subsidies to help spur broadband deployment while President Bush supports continued deregulation.
InternetNews September 28, 2005 Roy Mark	FCC CALEA Order Challenges Continue The Federal Communications Commission's decision to expand wiretap accessibility requirements to broadband providers and Internet telephone companies continued to come under legal fire.
InternetNews August 12, 2010	Americans Doubt Government Role in Broadband Latest research from Pew Internet Project highlights American uncertainty about the government's role in promoting broadband, while adoption rate stalls.
InternetNews December 20, 2006 Roy Mark	Telcos Granted Video Franchising Relief Divided FCC votes to streamline telephone companies' marketplace entry into triple play race.
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