Telecom Policy Report articles from February 2007

Telecom Policy Report archives from February 2007

ACLU Seeks Warrantless Mail-Surveillance Records, Fights NSA Case In Appeals Court.
February 5, 2007... The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for National Security Studies (CNSS) have filed three Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests seeking the immediate release of records related to the Bush administration's "asserted...

Capitol Hill And The Race For First-Responder Relief.
February 5, 2007... Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) introduced the "Interoperable Emergency Communications Act," aimed at providing the National Telecommunications and Information Administration...

PSC/PUC Action Around The Country.
February 5, 2007... Ohio Despite protests from the state's consumer advocate, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) will allow two phone companies to raise their rates every year if they want to. Cincinnati Bell and AT&T can raise monthly bills for...

N.D. The Latest To Craft Wireless Consumers' Rights Bill.
February 5, 2007... A wireless consumers' bill of rights bill is pending in North Dakota that, if signed, would give the Public Service Commission there the authority to work with consumers and providers. It would also require wireless carriers to give...

Report To Congress: 'Do Not Call' Registry's Continued Success.
February 5, 2007... A new report from the chief of the Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau at Federal Communications Commission shows that by the end of FY05 (September 2005), the "National Do Not Call Registry" included more than 107 million telephone...

Senate Committee Holds FCC's Collective Feet To The Fire.
February 5, 2007... For the first time in many years, a full, five-member Federal Communications Commission submitted to heated questioning on Capitol Hill, facing members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, now headed by Daniel K....

Trio Crafts Pre-Cutoff DTV Education Campaign.
February 20, 2007... With completion of the nation's transition to digital television only two years away (Telecom Policy Report, May 15, 2006), leaders of three major trade associations representing broadcasting, telecommunications and consumer- electronics...

In Our Opinion: AT&T, MCI Verizon Continues To Harvest Customers.
February 20, 2007... The following feature is part of a larger report just released by activist group TeleTruth. Telecom Policy Report welcomes your comments on this subject. Please send them to Debra Wayne at dwayne@accessintel.com. In 2001, AT&T and MCI had...

ECTA Blames Monopolies For Broadband Slowdown.
February 20, 2007... The European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA) is blaming the growth of telecommunication monopolies in what it believes are "key countries" for a reportedly significant slowdown in broadband uptake across Europe. According...

Better Late Than Never: FCC Releases Broadband Figures.
February 20, 2007... The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released its regular semi-annual report on "broadband" connections in the United States - in typical fashion, providing a snapshot of what deployment looked like seven months ago, on June 30,...

PSC/PUC Action Around The Country.
February 20, 2007... Maine A federal judge in California will hear arguments in the U.S. government's attempt to stop Maine regulators from forcing Verizon to say whether it provided customer call records to the government without a warrant (Telecom Policy...

The Internet: What Framework Best Promotes Competition And Consumer Welfare?
February 20, 2007... By Christopher Wolf, co-chairman, Hands Off The Internet Hands Off the Internet is a nationwide coalition of Internet users and companies united in the belief that a regulatory hands-off policy has allowed the Internet to flourish thus...

Stone-Faced Judges Hear Vonage, FCC USF Challenge.
February 20, 2007... And so the industry continues to wait for someone to make a decision as to whether or not Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) carriers are required to contribute to the Universal Service Fund and at what level. In June 2006, the Federal...