Wall Street Journal

With a stroke of a pen, the Federal Communications Commission could connect millions of minorities and poor Americans to broadband. For several years, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition has supported a proposal that the FCC should auction the AWS-3 spectrum band and require that the winner provide a free tier of broadband service nationwide.

The economic slump is helping rekindle a debate on whether online retailers should have to collect state sales taxes, a question that has pitted the new economy against the old.

The surprise HTC expressed earlier this month at being sued by Apple has finally turned into something a bit more substantial: "strong disagreement."

The next generation of wireless communications technology won't just change how quickly you can download your favorite Lady Gaga music video. It also may affect your wallet.

A handful of cash-rich companies are consolidating power in the technology industry, using their wealth to expand into new businesses and making it harder for small and midsize competitors to break through.

Web surfers frustrated at paying high prices for relatively slow broadband service won't get much short-term relief from the Federal Communications Commission's effort to make U.S. Internet service faster and cheaper.

As the National Broadband Plan is released today, the more important aspects of the plan may have to do with how the Federal Communications Commission could soon propose to use its regulatory powers to generate more competition for the existing broadband networks run by big phone and cable companies.

Under Chairman Julius Genachowski, Al Gore's old friends at the Federal Communications Commission are out to reinvent the Internet.

Over the past few months, Hyundai Heavy, the world's largest maker of ships, deployed a high-speed wireless network across the yard, one of the first such installations in an industrial setting anywhere in the world. Data zips around the complex at four megabits per second, about four times as fast as on a cable modem that is common in U.S. homes.

Health care isn't the only policy arena in which the Obama Administration aims to ram through controversial new rules. The Federal Communications Commission is set to unveil a "national broadband plan" opposed by industry and without any of the five commissioners voting on it.