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Net Neutrality and Open Access at D6: FCC Chairman Kevin Martin & Verizon...
Well, this should be interesting. Because of scheduling issues, Kevin Martin and Lowell McAdam will be interviewed at the same time. Will the two hit it off on issues of Net neutrality, early...
View ArticleVideo: Kevin Martin and Lowell McAdam Highlight Reel, Part One
Here are a few video highlights from the first half of the D6 interview of Kevin Martin, FCC chairman, and Lowell McAdam, CEO, Verizon Wireless (VZ), conducted by conference co-hosts Walt Mossberg and...
View ArticleVideo: Kevin Martin and Lowell McAdam Highlight Reel, Part Two
Here are a few video highlights from the second half of the D6 interview of Kevin Martin, FCC chairman, and Lowell McAdam, CEO, Verizon Wireless (VZ), conducted by conference co-hosts Walt Mossberg and...
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D6 Conference Recap
Here are all of the highlights from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference, organized by day and speaker: Day One Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, Microsoft You would have loved Windows 1.0. Walt. You...
View ArticleSatellite Radio: FCC's Adelstein Votes No; All Up to Tate
Federal Communications Commission member Jonathan Adelstein has voted to oppose the proposed merger of XM Satellite Radio (XMSR) and Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI), leaving the current tally tied at...
View ArticleXM, Sirius: Settling Enforcement Issues; FCC OK Nears
In what could be one of the final steps before the Federal Communications Commission approves their pending merger, XM Satellite Radio (XMSR) and Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) announced this morning...
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Look at It This Way: Now There's Half as Much Competition for Anyone Who's...
Well, I guess the check finally cleared. … After a nearly 18-month review, the Federal Communications Commission has finally reached an agreement to approve the merger of XM Satellite Radio Holdings...
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Comcast to FCC: Ow! My Wrist!
To Comcast, throttling or degrading the performance of file-sharing services is a necessary traffic-management technique. To the Federal Communications Commission it’s a violation of the agency’s...
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FCC to Comcast: Cut It Out
In essence, Comcast opens its customers’ mail because it wants to deliver mail not based on the address on the envelope but on the type of letter contained therein.” – Federal Communications...
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The Entire D6 Interview With FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and Verizon Wireless...
We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Unfortunately, due to issues too complicated to go into, we have to post all the D6...
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The Entire D6 Interview With FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and Verizon Wireless...
We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Unfortunately, due to issues too complicated to go into, we have to post all the D6...
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The Entire D6 Interview With FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and Verizon Wireless...
We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Unfortunately, due to issues too complicated to go into, we have to post all the D6...
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Like Trying to Take Pee Out of a Swimming Pool?
The Federal Communications Commission imposes decency standards on publicly broadcast radio and television signals. No surprise, then, to hear it’s looking to do the same to the free wireless Internet...
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FCC's Free Wireless Broadband Plan Now Unfiltered to Protect Free Speech and...
Tenacious guy, that Kevin Martin. The December meeting at which the Federal Communications Commission was to vote on his free wireless broadband plan has been canceled. And the plan itself is, by his...
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The Promise of Broadband–Is the Umpteenth Time a Charm?
In an article in The Wall Street Journal today comes the news that “President- elect Barack Obama’s call to improve the nation’s broadband infrastructure has cable and phone company lobbyists...
View ArticleGenachowski Gets the FCC Gig
At long last it’s official: President Obama on Tuesday afternoon nominated Julius Genachowski as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, confirming an appointment that was widely viewed as...
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Welcome to the FCC, Julius: Now Get to Work on a National Broadband Plan,...
Last week, after much delay, longtime Internet exec Julius Genachowski (pictured here) was confirmed by the Senate as the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. It is an important role for...
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New FCC Report: Reaching the "Digitally Distant," but "Digital Hopefuls" Too...
The Federal Communications Commission–the regulatory ruler of all kinds of waves, from air to digital–is now ferreting away on a plan to get Americans better hooked up to the Internet, part of a newish...
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New FCC Report: Reaching the "Digitally Distant," but "Digital Hopefuls" Too...
The Federal Communications Commission–the regulatory ruler of all kinds of waves, from air to digital–is now ferreting away on a plan to get Americans better hooked up to the Internet, part of a newish...
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D8 Video: FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on the Broadband Problem
When former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin appeared at D6 in 2008, Walt Mossberg asked him why broadband speeds in the United States were abysmal. “You’re the chairman of the...
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Verizon Taps McAdam as Second-in-Command
Verizon (VZ) has finally wrapped up its succession planning. Over the weekend, the company named wireless head Lowell McAdam as COO, effective October 1, making him heir apparant for the CEO job...
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How to Succeed in Start-Ups Without Really Sleeping
[This essay to attendees of the sixth D: All Things Digital conference is from the program book and is written by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg; D6 starts tomorrow night.] As it turns out, creating a...
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Another Historic Tete-a-Tete We'd Like to See at D6
A tough act to follow, last year’s D: All Things Digital 5. How do you best, or even match, a 75-minute joint interview with Microsoft (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates and Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs–a...
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