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Aussie IT Pricing Inquiry Now Taking Submissions The advocacy group Free Press issued a complaint with the FCC yesterday, stating that Verizon is blocking tethering choices on their LTE phones. Verizon has remained cagey on the subject, but if that’s true sparks are gonna fly.
I’ve never actually been but I hear the Pacific Northwest is beautiful. Apparently, there’s some really fast internet there too. An FCC report says that Olympia beats every US city in download speed at 21Mbps. That’s nearly double second place.
The drama over FCC Commissioner Baker’s jump to Comcast continues to unfold. Congress has now begun a probe in order to “gain a better understanding of the rules that govern Commissioner Baker’s departure” – and the response deadline is May 21. Good on ya, Congress, it’s about time to get some answers. [Ars Technica]
Not four months after voting to approve Comcast’s takeover of NBC, FCC Commissioner Meredith Baker will soon be employed by Comcast as an executive of Governmental Affairs. Wait, what?
There was a minor media frenzy over Apple secretly tracking your iPhone 4 today, so naturally the government wants in on the action. The FCC and representatives from both houses of Congress have said they’ll look into the matter.
A $US39 billion deal that would create the biggest wireless carrier in the US; it’s hard to imagine keeping that kind of fiasco a secret. But AT&T had to, otherwise opposition would start before the ink was even dry – even for the biggest corporate donor in Washington. Here’s how it went down. [WSJ]
