That Comcast would have fared better in its failed attempt to buy Time Warner Cable if it had taken an approach like Charter Communications is unlikely, industry experts tell us. Since Comcast/TWC would have created a company with incentive for stifling competition, "the best path was still denial instead of specific conditions," said John Bergmayer, Public Knowledge senior staff attorney. The FCC and Justice Department Monday made public potential conditions on Charter's purchases of Bright House Networks and TWC (see 1604250039).
That Comcast would have fared better in its failed attempt to buy Time Warner Cable if it had taken an approach like Charter Communications is unlikely, industry experts tell us. Since Comcast/TWC would have created a company with incentive for stifling competition, "the best path was still denial instead of specific conditions," said John Bergmayer, Public Knowledge senior staff attorney. The FCC and Justice Department Monday made public potential conditions on Charter's purchases of Bright House Networks and TWC (see 1604250039).
House Commerce Committee ranking member Frank Pallone, D-N.J., is about to unveil a deal addressing wireless industry concerns about his Securing Access to Networks in Disasters Act (HR-3998), Pallone said Tuesday in an opening statement for a full committee markup Wednesday and Thursday. CTIA had lauded Pallone's goals but in written testimony earlier this year questioned the need for legislation (see 1604120059).
House Commerce Committee ranking member Frank Pallone, D-N.J., is about to unveil a deal addressing wireless industry concerns about his Securing Access to Networks in Disasters Act (HR-3998), Pallone said Tuesday in an opening statement for a full committee markup Wednesday and Thursday. CTIA had lauded Pallone's goals but in written testimony earlier this year questioned the need for legislation (see 1604120059).
Multiple members of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) voted against two recommendations related to a customs broker regulations update. The two controversial recommendations involved recordkeeping and where brokers may conduct customs business. Those recommendations were ultimately approved on April 27 by the full COAC alongside more than 30 recommendations produced by the broker regulations working group (see 1604250011). Most COAC recommendations are approved unanimously.
Laws and legal systems in the U.S., U.K. and other nations are struggling with ways to protect the physical safety of their citizens and people's personal electronic communications and data, said panelists at a Columbia University digital policy forum Monday. They cited challenges among law enforcement and national security agencies in accessing people's data stored in other countries, legal roadblocks in getting information on encrypted devices and problems of applying traditional statutes to current and emerging technologies.
Laws and legal systems in the U.S., U.K. and other nations are struggling with ways to protect the physical safety of their citizens and people's personal electronic communications and data, said panelists at a Columbia University digital policy forum Monday. They cited challenges among law enforcement and national security agencies in accessing people's data stored in other countries, legal roadblocks in getting information on encrypted devices and problems of applying traditional statutes to current and emerging technologies.
Ligado expects to hear feedback from the weather community seeking FCC protection from interference in the spectrum used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and support from the wireless industry for its terrestrial LTE plans, but not as much from major GPS companies. That is now that the FCC has opened the door to comments on its proposed modifications to those LTE plans, one company representative told us Monday. Whether the pair of public notices issued Friday lead to the FCC's taking action this year is impossible to say, the representative said.
Laws and legal systems in the U.S., U.K. and other nations are struggling with ways to protect the physical safety of their citizens and people's personal electronic communications and data, said panelists at a Columbia University digital policy forum Monday. They cited challenges among law enforcement and national security agencies in accessing people's data stored in other countries, legal roadblocks in getting information on encrypted devices and problems of applying traditional statutes to current and emerging technologies.
A point of agreement between independent and diverse programmers and major content companies was that many parties in the FCC indie programming notice of inquiry have cited practices like bundling as inimical to a fair and competitive market. Otherwise, the programmers and content companies diverge sharply, with CBS, Time Warner, 21st Century Fox, Viacom and Walt Disney calling such arguments "a rehash," while a number of indie programmers and allies said it was clear those programmers face an uphill struggle getting onto multichannel video programming distributors' channels. "There is widespread agreement that independent programmers face significant obstacles in reaching consumers," RFD-TV said in a filing posted Wednesday in docket 16-41.