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Prospects for enacting telecom legislation during the remainder of this congress are slim, especially with a Senate hold by Minority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) on some pending bills in [...]

A myriad of parties have filed comments on a communications competition policy white paper released by the House Energy and Commerce Committee (TR, June 1), with many expressing views advanced [...]

Parties have offered the House Energy and Commerce Committee a myriad of suggestions for how the U.S. government can modernize spectrum policy, including by giving the FCC the authority to [...]

Congressional priorities in the telecommunications arena in 2013 will include spectrum oversight, 'efforts to get more spectrum used more efficiently,' and consideration of the need for an incentive auction to [...]

Republicans on the House communications and technology subcommittee have urged the FCC to abandon an incentive auction proposal that would reserve up to 30 megahertz of spectrum in each market [...]

The FCC and CTIA Dec. 12 announced a voluntary agreement to allow postpaid and prepaid consumers to unlock their mobile devices. The agreement involves Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Inc., Sprint Corp., [...]

Participants in a spectrum policy panel during the Telecommunications Industry Association's 'policy day' on Oct. 9 at its 2013 conference in Maryland had plenty of ideas for what Congress should [...]

Members of the House communications and technology subcommittee raised a number of concerns July 23 about the FCC's planning for its incentive auction of TV spectrum, and Democrats and Republicans [...]

At a recent House hearing, Democrats and representatives of small and regional carriers and consumer groups blasted what they said is the stranglehold Verizon Wireless and AT&T, Inc., have over […]

In a surreal scene, House Commerce Committee members last week traded insults over the ratio of committee seats for the two parties, while House managers presented to a solemn and […]

With a party shift in the Senate and the departure of key lawmakers and rank-and-file members on the House and Senate committees with jurisdiction over telecom and tech issues, the [...]

Some members of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee during a July 17 hearing sought assurances from AT&T, Inc., that its broadband deployment commitments in connection with its planned [...]

Lawmakers in the House and Senate have written to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to call for the Commission to implement a Connect America Fund mechanism to enable rate-of-return carriers to [...]

Sen. Mark Begich (D., Alaska) has introduced a bill to require the FCC 'to suspend and revise' some of its Universal Service Fund distribution rules pertaining to rural carriers, according [...]

Thirty-two House Democrats wrote FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. July 9 to express concern about the impact of commercial transactions between Verizon Wireless and [...]

The FCC came under fire during two separate hearings from a bipartisan array of lawmakers on the Senate and House panels overseeing Indian affairs for Universal Service Fund reforms the [...]

Seven House Democrats, including Reps. Edward J. Markey (D., Mass.) and John Conyers Jr. (11, Mich.), have asked the FCC and the Department of Justice to scrutinize deals between Verizon [...]

CenturyLink, Inc., has written to House and Senate leaders urging them to extend the bonus depreciation provisions that are set to expire at the end of this year. In letters [...]

Groups that in the past have tended to line up on opposite sides of broadband policy discussions--or at least to emphasize their points of disagreement--have joined in issuing a 'call […]

Republican losses in both houses of Congress in last week's election, along with some retirements, will mean changes in some of the faces on committees and subcommittees that oversee telecom […]

Two committees in the European Parliament have approved a package of reforms to the European Union's telecommunications industry rules, including terms that would give national regulatory bodies the authority to […]

The Senate has approved legislation that would revamp the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and allow telecom carriers to seek retroactive immunity in district court for their alleged role in the […]

Federal Trade Commission reauthorization legislation introduced April 8 in the Senate would eliminate the exemption from FTC oversight currently enjoyed by telecommunications common carriers, a prospect that FTC commissioners applauded […]

A top staffer on the House Energy and Commerce Committee has predicted that the FCC Commissioners can be expected to be asked to return to testify before the committee 'several […]

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee late last month sought an explanation from Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell on why they should grant telcos immunity from allegedly participating in […]

A House panel looking at the state of broadband in the U.S. split along party lines April 24 when it came to whether more needs to be done to improve […]

Democrats on the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing are taking aim at FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin over his stands on the AT&T, Inc.--BellSouth Corp. merger, broadband policy, […]

Narrow gains by Democrats in the House and Senate in the Nov. 6 election yielded bigger results when it came to lawmakers involved in telecom policy, with the chairwoman of [...]

The Maine House of Representatives Committee on Utilities and Energy is set to take up a bill that would require all telephone utilities operating in the state to provide high-speed […]

Wyoming's Senate Committee on Corporations, Elections, and Political Subdivisions has recommended a bill that would essentially deregulate the prices and rates of telecommunications services under certain conditions and where proven […]