Ultra-wideband is in its infancy in terms of speed and distance, ... The initial approval from the FCC might be, for example, for 100M bitsec with a range of 150 feet. But there's no reason why you can't increase speed and distance. It's a matter of power and finer and finer granularity of the silicon chips.
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With lucrative industry employment ahead of them, FCC chairs and most commissioners have a built-in conflict of interest, ... They simply can't take the independent positions necessary to fulfill their responsibilities to the public and to the public interest.
I think the stocks are moving higher on two fronts. One is obviously an anticipation of some sort of announcement from the FCC. Secondly, I think it's broadly in response to the Fed rate cut, as it relates to advertising and the improving economic picture in the second half of this year.
There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.
We agree with the District Courts conclusion that the Communications Decency Act places an unacceptably heavy burden on protected speech... In Sable v. FCC we remarked that the speech restriction at issue there amounted to 'burning the house to roast the pig.' The CDA, casting a far darker shadow over free speech, threatens to torch a large segment of the Internet community.
The FCC simply does not have the statutory authority to extend the 1994 law for the telephone system to the 21st century Internet.
I think we will likely get approval on Thursday and then approval by the FCC possibly by the end of the year, or possibly early next year,
I'm encouraged to see the attorney general taking that action. I hope the FCC takes it seriously.
We've heard the argument here now that the FCC is the one that ought to redefine the definition of indecency. Perhaps that is true. I find it objectionable that those who have been granted the free use of our airwaves would not see fit to restrain themselves within their own conduct to define conduct that is less than indecent, that is that which we've heard the use of the words crude, inappropriate.
We need to shine more sunlight on the corruption in how radio stations choose songs. An agreement behind closed doors between the FCC and the big radio companies is exactly the opposite of that.
Mike will be a real asset to our team. Prior to joining ERF Wireless, Mike's career as an entrepreneurial executive in the communications industry includes a number of diverse management experiences that span over 18 years. He has a proven track record in business and government relations in the U.S., Mexico and Europe. He also has experience working with congressional groups, as well as the staff of the FCC, on telecommunications legislation and regulations.
But other critics blame the FCC. Hire some people at the FCC who are not lawyers, ... If they got somebody in there who was not Al Gore's next-door neighbor in prep school but who actually knows something about this stuff, then this kind of thing wouldn't happen.
For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law.
Approval of these mergers undermines more than 20 years of efforts to introduce competition into the residential local and long distance telecommunications market, ... The FCC promises cross-technology competition with Internet phone service on cable and telephone systems, but the Commission has failed to ensure that consumers will receive meaningful choices at fair prices.
Consumers should praise FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and Senator John McCain for striking at the heart of the cable industry's flawed pricing scheme which forces consumers to buy packages of television channels they don't want and shouldn't have to pay for. Today's action kick starts the national effort to give consumers' wallets a break and allow them more control over their television programming choices and cable bills.
You'd really have to be blind and deaf to watch the shows and never know--we make it quite clear they're adult shows for adults, ... Even though technically we're not regulated and there's nothing the FCC could do, we feel that we have little choice right now.