... old days it used to be that if you switched phone companies you couldn't keep your phone number. Most recently on Nov. 24 the FCC said if you switch wireless carriers you can switch it. Not only that you can but you can take your wireless number and switch ...
RUDY BACA: There's always the possibility of a legal challenge. I think it's minimal here. The FCC has a decision from the D.C. Circuit that said it has very broad authority to implement this. It's got the '96 Telecommunications Act that Congress mandated, told the FCC ...
... to decide to decide whether it was an accident that we started at the dinner hour. Telemarketers who had the list were subject to the FCC's rule on October 1. We expect them to be in compliance. A lot of telemarketers didn't have the list and we're ...
... different judge blocking the list yet again. So, yes, we're in limbo for at least a week. RAY SUAREZ: This argument over whether the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission or the Federal Trade Commission should be doing this. This is pretty arcane if you're just a person sitting ...
... owned by the public, under licenses that require they serve the cause of localism and diversity," Dorgan said in a Sept. 11 press statement. "The FCC seems to have forgotten that, but the American people have not forgotten." Dorgan called the FCC's action "one of the most complete cave ...
... under fire from the courts and public activists. The White House, however, has already warned it will veto any legislation seeking to roll back the FCC's rules. The Senate action comes one day after an appeals court in Philadelphia temporarily blocked the FCC's new federal rules from taking ...
... a full judicial review of the case. At the same time, the court made clear its decision was not based on its evaluation of the FCC's new regulations. Circuit Chief Judge Anthony Scirica, who headed the three-judge panel, said that not granting the stay, and allowing the FCC ...
By a 400-to-21 vote, lawmakers approved a spending bill for the FCC and other agencies that included language blocking the FCC from approving any business deals that would allow a single company to own stations reaching more than 35 percent of the national audience. The FCC recently passed ...
... station operated by Iranian-Americans and Iranian exiles opposed to the current Iranian government. NITV added that Loral Skynet had informed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the interference. Similarly, the BBG's nine-member board urged the FCC and the U.S. State Department to "lodge an appropriate formal ...
... of Congress approve Dorgan's resolution of disapproval, the measure would be taken up by President George W. Bush, who previously expressed strong support for FCC Chairman Michael Powell's deregulatory agenda. Though the FCC voted on these rules more than a month ago, the public and congressional debate appears ...
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