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EchoStar sells off its spectrum for more than its total market cap

$23B deal with AT&T shows where the money is

Networks27 Aug 2025 | 9

Florida Man earns five-year sentence for $100 million telco fraud

Q Link claimed subsidies for ineligible customers

Legal30 Jul 2025 | 10

Biden broadband benchmarks are BS, says Trump FCC

No more consideration of affordability or 1 Gbps speed goal if Chairman Carr gets his way

Public Sector22 Jul 2025 | 41

FCC dives in to sink Chinese grip on undersea internet cables

Maybe finish ripping and replacing your telco networks first?

Networks17 Jul 2025 | 25

Trump's budget bill opens wide swath of spectrum for sale

updated Including frequencies that overlap with Wi-Fi 6E and private mobile networking

Public Sector08 Jul 2025 | 5

FCC on the prowl for Huawei and other blocked Chinese makers in America

Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting rackets

Networks24 Mar 2025 | 8

FCC stands up Council on National Security to fight China in ways that CISA used to

Infosec In Brief PLUS: Alleged Garantex admin arrested in India; Google deletes more North Korean malware

Security16 Mar 2025 | 6

Robocallers who phoned the FCC pretending to be from the FCC land telco in trouble

Don't laugh: The $4.5m fine proposed for carrier Telnyx shows how the Trump administration will run its comms regulator

Networks06 Feb 2025 | 30

FCC to telcos: By law you must secure your networks from foreign spies. Get on it

Plus: Uncle Sam is cross with this one Chinese biz over Salt Typhoon mega-snooping

CSO17 Jan 2025 | 29

FCC boss urges speedy spectrum auction to fund 'Rip'n'Replace' of Chinese kit

Telcos would effectively fund grants paid to protect national security

Networks08 Jan 2025 | 15

FCC net neutrality rules dead again as appeals court sides with Big Telco

No more back-and-forth: Rosenworcel tells Congress the issue needs legislating

Networks02 Jan 2025 | 26

Starlink direct-to-cell is coming to Ukraine

Cell towers not required when messaging on Musk's finest

Networks01 Jan 2025 | 19

FCC throws open 6 GHz band to unlicensed low-power gizmos

Good news for techies pushing 'education, healthcare, and entertainment' gadgets in the US

Networks12 Dec 2024 | 11

Salt Typhoon forces FCC's hand on making telcos secure their networks

Proposal pushes stricter infosec safeguards after Chinese state baddies expose vulns

Security06 Dec 2024 | 4

Trump's pick to run the FCC has told us what he plans: TikTok ban, space broadband, and Section 230 reform

Loathes Big Tech and is not at all keen on net neutrality

Public Sector19 Nov 2024 | 119

Trump appoints Musk associate Brendan Carr as FCC chair

Likely to look more favorably on Elon's adventures in space-based comms

Networks18 Nov 2024 | 35

AT&T settles claims it misappropriated subsidies, with partial admission of guilt

Changes at the telco giant called for to prevent future abuse

Networks06 Nov 2024 | 5

FCC chair: Mobile dead spots will end when space-based and ground comms merge

Jessica Rosenworcel looks at policy challenges for the next decade

Networks29 Oct 2024 | 4

Scientists demand FCC test environmental impacts of satellites

updated Boffins say it's absurd that the US comms watchdog won't consider atmospheric harms

Science24 Oct 2024 | 15

FCC fines be damned, ESPN misuses emergency alert tones yet again

It’s the third strike, yet all they get is a slap on the wrist?

Offbeat17 Oct 2024 | 79

FCC probes whether it can pop a cap in ISP data caps

'Our networks have the capacity to meet consumer demand without these restrictions,' says chair

Networks16 Oct 2024 | 10

US lawmakers dig into FCC's $900M Starlink snub in wake of Hurricane Helene

Nearly a billion dollars in rural broadband subsidies wouldn't go amiss

Networks08 Oct 2024 | 39

T-Mobile US to cough up $31.5M after that long string of security SNAFUs

At least seven intrusions in five years? Yeah, those promises of improvement more than 'long overdue'

CSO30 Sep 2024 | 4

FCC boss starts bringing up Musk's Starlink dominance, antitrust concerns

SpaceX broadband network now accounts for nearly two-thirds of all active satellites in orbit

Networks12 Sep 2024 | 52

Astronomers back call for review of bonkers rule that means satellite swarms fly without environment checks

Space boffins want pollution from the likes of Starlink regulated

Science29 Aug 2024 | 48

AT&T to shell out $950,000 after quad-state 911 outage

Service takes another dive just as settlement is announced

Networks28 Aug 2024 | 7

Biden tries to cut through fog of confusion caused by deliberately deceptive customer service tricks

Targets impossible unsubscribes, elusive human assistance, and other wallet-draining time sinks

Public Sector13 Aug 2024 | 46

Before we put half a million broadband satellites in orbit, anyone want to consider environmental effects?

SpaceX 'WasteX' Starlink said to make up 60% of sats circling Earth

Networks12 Aug 2024 | 80

Appeals court kicks fate of net neutrality in America further down the road

Judges wonder out loud: If Congress wanted this, it would have passed a law, no?

Networks02 Aug 2024 | 8

Failure to follow proper procedures caused US-wide AT&T outage, FCC says

America's second largest wireless carrier taking steps to prevent a repeat of 12-hour downtime in February

Networks23 Jul 2024 | 15

Net neutrality in danger again: US appeals court puts FCC's resurrected rule on hold

'Likelihood of success is even clearer,' thanks to those Supremes

Networks15 Jul 2024 | 17

FCC: US telcos a long way off, several billions short of removing Chinese kit

Updated Just 12% of providers have completed rip and replace of ZTE, Huawei

Networks11 Jul 2024 | 4

FCC wants telcos to carrier unlock cellphones 60 days after activation

Should you stay or should you go now? If Rosenworcel gets her way, there won't be trouble

Personal Tech27 Jun 2024 | 40

FCC slaps Verizon with $1M fine for dropping 911 calls, again

Less than an hour's profit - that sends a strong message for emergency cover

Networks26 Jun 2024 | 9

FCC takes some action against notorious BGP

How's your RPKI-based security plan coming along? Feds want to know

Networks07 Jun 2024 | 9

Big Telco takes aim at renewed net neutrality rules

New red-tape will cost us big, American ISPs and their lobbyists claim

Networks06 Jun 2024 | 10

Man behind deepfake Biden robocall indicted on felony charges, faces $6M fine

FCC wants to hit this political genius with first-of-a-kind punishment

Cyber-crime24 May 2024 | 46

FCC boss wants political ads to admit when they were made using AI

How about just flag up the adverts not using machine learning

AI + ML22 May 2024 | 6

FCC names and shames Royal Tiger AI robocall crew

Agency is on the lookout for a Prince among men

Cyber-crime14 May 2024 | 5

Lights about to go out on US Affordable Connectivity Program

A partial benefit in May then subsidy gets unplugged once and for all

Networks02 May 2024 | 17

AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile US fined $200M for selling off people's location info

Carriers claim real culprits are getting away with it - the data brokers

Personal Tech29 Apr 2024 |

FCC votes 3-2 to bring net neutrality back from the dead

Law responds again to pings

Networks25 Apr 2024 | 16

America may end up with paid-for 5G fast lanes under net neutrality anyway

Damn you, network virtualization

Networks17 Apr 2024 | 22

US broadband internet: Now with mandatory 'nutrition' labels

ISPs are just going to have to swallow it

Personal Tech10 Apr 2024 | 20

FCC to reinstate net neutrality in the US until someone decides to scrap it again

Pendulum returns to the Obama era – don't be surprised if it swings right back

Networks03 Apr 2024 | 19

Feds finally decide to do something about years-old SS7 spy holes in phone networks

And Diameter, too, for good measure

Networks02 Apr 2024 | 22

Stuck paying for your apartment's crummy internet? FCC boss Rosenworcel wants to help

Proposed regulation would bar building owners from forcing internet services on tenants

On-Prem05 Mar 2024 | 21

FCC: April is last month for Affordable Connectivity Program payments

US broadband customers prepare for the great disconnection

Networks05 Mar 2024 | 8

FCC Commissioner calls for crackdown on Apple's iMessage gatekeeping

Demands investigation into iPhone maker for potentially breaching regulations over Beeper Mini

Personal Tech13 Feb 2024 | 16

FCC gets tough: Telcos must now tell you when your personal info is stolen

Yep, cell carriers didn't have to do this before

Security12 Feb 2024 | 8

Sorry, scammers: The FCC says AI robocalls are definitely illegal

Existing telemarketing abuse laws apply to AI voices, too, says Commission

AI + ML08 Feb 2024 | 20

America's broadband bill subsidy runs out of money and halts enrollments

Program that gets the hard-up online needs money by May

Public Sector06 Feb 2024 | 11

The FCC wants to criminalize AI robocall spam

The only thing worse than a telemarketer is a robo-telemarketer

Public Sector02 Feb 2024 | 38

Musk lashes out at Biden administration over rural broadband

Claims FCC's justification for ditching Starlink 'utterly false'

Networks23 Jan 2024 | 63

FCC's Affordable Connectivity Program dangles by a financial thread

On the wrong side of the digital divide in America? The clock is ticking

Public Sector09 Jan 2024 | 9

FCC really, truly won't give SpaceX nearly a billion bucks for Starlink rural broadband

Updated You Musk be joking, says legal veep

Networks14 Dec 2023 | 68