The ascendency of Donald Trump as the favorite to be the Republican nominee for president is raising the same kinds of questions in communications circles as it has on many other fronts. Few major communications players have rallied to his support, just as he has tallied few endorsements among Republican officials nationwide. Industry officials express uneasiness with Trump. They said it's unclear who he would pick for his transition teams on the FCC and communications issues, or who he would tap to lead the FTC or FCC, as NTIA administrator, or for the other key positions overseeing communications policy.
The FCC’s net neutrality order goes beyond broadband regulation and threatens edge companies, the Internet, free speech, free enterprise and freedom in general, said three prominent critics at a Conservative Political Action Conference panel Thursday. If “you want to control the people, and you want to control the government and private enterprise, the first place you start is political speech control,” said former FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell. An FCC spokesman had no comment Friday.
The FCC’s net neutrality order goes beyond broadband regulation and threatens edge companies, the Internet, free speech, free enterprise and freedom in general, said three prominent critics at a Conservative Political Action Conference panel Thursday. If “you want to control the people, and you want to control the government and private enterprise, the first place you start is political speech control,” said former FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell. An FCC spokesman had no comment Friday.
The Senate Commerce Committee unanimously approved 12 of 27 amendments Thursday, including proposals on a national unlicensed spectrum strategy and stronger dig-once language, to the bipartisan spectrum bill Mobile Now, before approving S-2555 itself. No roll call votes were necessary. Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters after the markup he plans to proceed, as expected (see 1602250049), to hotline Mobile Now to the Senate floor.
The Senate Commerce Committee unanimously approved 12 of 27 amendments Thursday, including proposals on a national unlicensed spectrum strategy and stronger dig-once language, to the bipartisan spectrum bill Mobile Now, before approving S-2555 itself. No roll call votes were necessary. Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters after the markup he plans to proceed, as expected (see 1602250049), to hotline Mobile Now to the Senate floor.
Public Knowledge's complaint against Comcast's Stream TV streaming video service and data caps is no surprise, even though other companies have their own zero-rating products that have raised red flags, legal experts said in Thursday interviews. Comcast is a far more obvious target than T-Mobile's Binge On, "which can build a case we need to engage in zero rating in order to compete against the big dogs," Boston College Law School associate professor Daniel Lyons said. Stream TV's being "an obvious net neutrality violation ... makes it an obvious target," said Barbara van Schewick, director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society.
Public Knowledge's complaint against Comcast's Stream TV streaming video service and data caps is no surprise, even though other companies have their own zero-rating products that have raised red flags, legal experts said in Thursday interviews. Comcast is a far more obvious target than T-Mobile's Binge On, "which can build a case we need to engage in zero rating in order to compete against the big dogs," Boston College Law School associate professor Daniel Lyons said. Stream TV's being "an obvious net neutrality violation ... makes it an obvious target," said Barbara van Schewick, director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society.
The Senate Commerce Committee unanimously approved 12 of 27 amendments Thursday, including proposals on a national unlicensed spectrum strategy and stronger dig-once language, to the bipartisan spectrum bill Mobile Now, before approving S-2555 itself. No roll call votes were necessary. Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters after the markup he plans to proceed, as expected (see 1602250049), to hotline Mobile Now to the Senate floor.
The Copyright Office's proposal to separate its systems from the Library of Congress' IT infrastructure and allocate specific funding for CO IT improvements “has nothing to do with the constitutional arguments” over whether to detach the CO from the LOC, said Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante during a House Appropriations Committee Legislative Branch Subcommittee hearing Wednesday. The CO made its proposal for separating its IT systems as part of a provisional version of its IT modernization plan released Monday (see 1602290071).
Members of the House Research and Technology Subcommittee sought to identify the main regulatory, market and legislative barriers to the deployment and adoption of mobile health applications, during a hearing Wednesday, and questioned witnesses on cybersecurity and privacy concerns for the emerging technology. Witnesses touted the usefulness of mobile health apps, and urged updates to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and government support of industry best practices for health data privacy and security.