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American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials to FCC: 5.9 GHz spectrum proposal could risk lives (Multichannel News)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 03/03/2020 - 10:54Suzanne Tetreault, former deputy chief of FCC Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, joins Wilkinson Barker Knauer (Multichannel News)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 03/02/2020 - 15:45FCC Commissioners Carr, O'Rielly Raise Big Tech Red Flags at CPAC
Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr, addressing allegations of conservative bias on online platforms, said he did not think the answer was "to do nothing." He cited what he said was a leaked document from Twitter "that it would soon be able to allow political ideologues to stamp tweets as misinformation based on their perspective," saying: "I don't think that's the right thing." "If you don't want MSNBC fact-checking the information you see on Twitter," he said, "I think you should be empowered to make that decision and turn those types of bias filters off." Asked to weigh in o
Senate Passes Secure Networks Act to Scrub Huawei and ZTE From USF-Funded Broadband Buildouts (Multichannel News)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 02/27/2020 - 17:10Net Neutrality Docket is Now FCC's Busiest
The Federal Communications Commission's request for comment on its net neutrality deregulation has become the busiest docket at the commission, drawing over three thousand comments in the past 30 days. According to a thumbnail survey, the comments continue to be general ones calling for the return of the rules and Title II classification, rather than on the specifics of the FCC request.