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  Federal effort under way to deter smartphone thieves

  The Federal Communications Commission and the CTIA Wireless Association are joining hands in an attempt to take a bite out of smartphone crime.

  By Brad Reed | 11 April, 2012 03:24

  Tags: at&t, consumer electronics, ctia, CTIA Wireless Association, fcc, Federal Communications Commission, IMEI, International Mobile Equipment Identity, iPhone theft, networking, security, smartphones, smartphone theft, wireless

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  Broadband infrastructure: Time for real policy

  I'm late filing this column. Why? It's my AT&T U-Verse DSL connection again. Make that "yet again." I've been struggling with it all day.

  By Mark Gibbs | 26 March, 2012 15:31

  Tags: ADSL, ADSL+, at&t, broadband, cable, DSL, fcc, Federal Communications Commission, isp, Motorola, National Broadband Plan, NBP, networking, NV, Randall L. Stephenson, satellite, technet, Telecommunication, U-Verse, verizon, wireless

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  US FCC approves Aussie-like anti-zombie code

  Despite strong opposition to an Australian-like voluntary anti-botnet iCode, where ISPs inform customers of botnet infections, a US Federal Communications Commission council has approved it.

  By Liam Tung | 23 March, 2012 11:11

  Tags: anti-botnet iCode, fcc, ISPs

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  AT&T exec blames FCC for T-Mobile layoffs

  James Cicconi knows whom T-Mobile workers should blame for their company's recently announced layoffs: the FCC.

  By Brad Reed | 24 March, 2012 06:25

  Tags: at&t, business issues, corporate issues, fcc, FCC Cicconi, Federal Communications Commission, government, industry verticals, James Cicconi, layoffs, networking, personnel, t-mobile, T-Mobile layoffs, wireless

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  AT&T exec Cicconi again bashes FCC

  You don't have to listen to AT&T executive James Cicconi speak very often to figure out that he's not a big fan of the current Federal Communications Commission.

  By Brad Reed | 21 March, 2012 04:45

  Tags: acquisitions, at&t, business issues, corporate issues, fcc, government, industry verticals, James Cicconi, mergers, mergers and acquisitions, networking, personnel, spectrum, t-mobile, U.S. Department of Justice, wireless

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  FCC asks Verizon for more data on plans to use acquired spectrum

  The Federal Communications Commission today asked Verizon to deliver a wide range of information on its spectrum holdings and its attempts to buy spectrum licenses from major cable companies.

  By Brad Reed | 09 March, 2012 10:29

  Tags: fcc, Federal Communications Commission, lte, networking, spectrum, verizon, WiMAX & LTE, wireless

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  AT&T reluctant to support FCC call to adopt new PC security measures

  The head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants the ISP broadband providers to help battle botnets by being more active in helping their subscribers eradicate malware infections on their PCs. But AT&T's chief security officer said AT&T is reluctant to go beyond its current anti-malware efforts.

  By Ellen Messmer | 09 March, 2012 05:42

  Tags: anti-malware, at&t, botnets, Ed Amoroso, fcc, Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, security

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  Congress won't kill off new unlicensed spectrum after all

  Rest easy, America: Congress has decided against killing the next generation of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

  By Brad Reed | 17 February, 2012 08:27

  Tags: bluetooth, fcc, Federal Communications Commission, networking, unlicensed spectrum wireless, WiFi, WiMAX & LTE, wireless, WLANs / Wi-Fi

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  FCC axes LightSquared LTE dreams

  Anyone expecting LightSquared to bring LTE services to their neighborhood got a rude awakening today when the Federal Communications Commission said it would not permit the company to run an LTE network on satellite spectrum.

  By Brad Reed | 16 February, 2012 04:44

  Tags: 4G wireless, fcc, Federal Communications Commission, LightSquared, LightSquared LTE, LTE network, LTE wireless, networking, NTI, WiMAX & LTE, wireless

• Much of Western U.S. is a 3G wasteland, says FCC

  Anyone making a road trip across America should expect their mobile data service to basically not exist throughout much of the Western United States.

  By Brad Reed | 11 February, 2012 08:25

  Tags: 3g, 3G & 4G, 3G coverage, 3G dead zones, 4g, 4G coverage, 4G dead zones, at&t, dead zones, fcc, Federal Communications Commission, lte, mobile spectrum, mobility fund, networking, Telecommunication, wireless, wireless coverage

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  Global broadband snapshot: Hong Kong throttles the rest of the world

  Anyone who thinks their Verizon fiber connection is fast ought to spend a week hanging out in East Asia.

  By Brad Reed | 07 February, 2012 07:33

  Tags: broadband speed, fcc, global broadband, networking, verizon, wireless

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  First 'Super Wi-Fi' network goes live in North Carolina

  Lucky residents of Wilmington, N.C., will be the first in the nation to have access to a "Super Wi-Fi" network.

  By Brad Reed | 27 January, 2012 10:34

  Tags: fcc, Federal Communications Commission, networking, New Hanover County NC, Super Wi-Fi, white spaces, white spaces spectrum, wi-fi, Wilmington NC, wireless, WLANs / Wi-Fi

• AT&T chief bashes FCC, pleads for more spectrum

  AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson is still unhappy that the Federal Communications Commission helped foul up his company's attempt to merge with T-Mobile.

  By Brad Reed | 27 January, 2012 04:34

  Tags: at&t, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, fcc, networking, qualcomm, spectrum, WiMAX & LTE, wireless

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  2012 Outlook: The end of everything?

  Welcome to 2012, the year the world ends. Yes, in case you haven't been following the eschatologists out there (and most of them are definitely "out there"), 2012 will be "it" for humanity. The "last hurrah". Fini. Au revoir.

  By Mark Gibbs | 09 January, 2012 16:30

  Tags: analytics, antispam, applications, Big Data, Big Media, botnets, business intelligence, consumerization, DDoS attacks, end times, eschatology, Facebook, fcc, hackers, hacking, hacktivism

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  The Internet has escaped the ax, at least in the US, at least for now

  A year ago I wrote that 2011 would be a year in which the Internet would "be under a multi-pronged attack that threatens to change it irrevocably in ways that may destroy much of the Internet's potential." Well, 2011 has come and mostly gone, and it turned out that my pessimism may have been misplaced but not invalid.

  By Scott Bradner | 21 December, 2011 02:31

  Tags: fcc, Intel, Internet regulation, LAN & WAN, security, SOPA