The Communications Decency Act is unlikely to be rewritten so ISPs are held liable for posting ads selling minors for sex should Republicans take control of the House or Senate, an increasing possibility to many pollsters, some experts said. The GOP’s business-friendly attitude works against CDA rewrite and ISPs will unify against any attempt to amend the CDA, they said.
The International Trade Commission announces that a section 337 patent-based complaint has been filed regarding certain mobile devices, associated software, and components thereof.
The FCC remains on the sidelines of a carriage contract dispute between Dish Network and News Corp.’s Fox pay-TV programming unit, which has left the DBS provider’s customers without 19 regional sports networks, agency and industry officials said Wednesday. Last week the RSN programming and that of the FX and National Geographic national pay-TV channels no longer was available to any of Dish’s 14 million customers after Dish and Fox couldn’t agree to a new deal (CD Oct 4 p5). The continued lack of carriage has fueled requests of some groups seeking changes to retransmission consent and RSN carriage rules to press the FCC to act.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Republican gains wouldn’t have much effect on National Broadband Plan follow-through by Congress on matters such as spectrum allocation and the Universal Service Fund that don’t depend on how net neutrality and broadband reclassification play out, said the former official who led the FCC’s work on the project and industry lobbyists.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Republican gains wouldn’t have much effect on National Broadband Plan follow-through by Congress on matters such as spectrum allocation and the Universal Service Fund that don’t depend on how net neutrality and broadband reclassification play out, said the former official who led the FCC’s work on the project and industry lobbyists.
The International Trade Commission announces that a section 337 patent-based complaint has been filed regarding certain video game systems and controllers.
The FCC appears likely to extend an emergency alerting deadline for cable systems and radio and TV stations to start using a newly released warning standard made public last week by FEMA (CD Oct 1 p12) after several delays of its own, commission and industry officials predicted. Under current FCC rules, broadcasters and cable operators must certify compliance with Common Alerting Protocol 180 days after the standard was released by the Federal Emergency Management Agency last Thursday. The regulator seems poised to delay that deadline, perhaps for several months and either for all who would be subject to CAP compliance or for those licensees who say they can’t meet the deadline, FCC and industry officials said.
The role managed services already play on broadband networks has gotten muddled in the net neutrality debate, panelists said Friday at a discussion hosted by the Information Technology and Innovation Forum. Speakers said competition is thriving but quality of service (QoS) issues will continue to get significant attention as the net neutrality debate continues in Congress and at the FCC.
The role managed services already play on broadband networks has gotten muddled in the net neutrality debate, panelists said Friday at a discussion hosted by the Information Technology and Innovation Forum. Speakers said competition is thriving but quality of service [QoS] issues will continue to get significant attention as the net neutrality debate continues in Congress and at the FCC.
The FCC unanimously approved a declaratory ruling and a report and order that clarify rules on broadcast auxiliary spectrum (BAS) relocation expenses incurred by Sprint Nextel. The ruling probably will help Sprint go ahead with a lawsuit against MSS licensees in the 2 GHz band, where the carrier cleared the spectrum. FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, who partially concurred, said she wishes the order had gone further in deciding liability. “The Commission has a strong institutional interest in ensuring that its relocation and cost reimbursement policies are correctly applied to the specific factual issues in this case,” she said. “I believe that the public interest would have been better advanced by having the Commission decide the particular issue of whether ICO Global is liable to Sprint Nextel."