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FCC Nails Verizon
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-06-24
In one of the poorest kept secrets at the FCC in recent years, the agency officially sanctioned Verizon June 23 for attempting to keep customers from porting their telephone numbers to another carrier.
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FCC to Slap Privacy Violation on Verizon?
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-06-20
Loose lips at the Federal Communications Commission are predicting that the agency will find Verizon guilty of violating consumer privacy as early as June 20 for actions affecting customers'
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Obama, McCain Face Telco Immunity Vote
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-06-19
The best part of having sitting senators as presidential candidates is that on occasion they have to, well, vote on issues. Instead of providing only hollow campaign rhetoric, they have to
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Aging Cold Warriors Hot and Bothered over China
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-06-12
Perhaps Congressman Frank Wolf is just disappointed that President Bush is ignoring his advice to not attend the Beijing Olympics as a protest against China's human rights abuses. It
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E-Mailing Congress for No Reason
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-06-11
Here's a shocker: The majority of people who contact Congress do not believe lawmakers are interested in what they have to say. Nevertheless, driven by online advocacy campaigns, people are writing to
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Meanwhile in the Non-iPhone World
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-06-09
While waiting to be buried under the glut of anticipated iPhone 2.0 news today, only Samsung among Apple's handset competitors decided to go mano a mano by also introducing new consumer phones. As
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CTIA Invokes the Great Satan
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-06-06
The cellular industry has reacted with great indignity over just the notion of the government selling off some spectrum to be dedicated for free wireless broadband service. The industry's mouthpiece - the
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Verizon-Alltel Deal May Face Different Scrutiny
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-06-05
There's a major unknown factor in Verizon's proposed $28.1 billion acquisition of Alltel: antitrust regulations. If approved by the Washington regulators, the deal would give Verizon
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Obama Wins, Tech Loses
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-06-04
With Hillary Clinton sent to the presidential sidelines June 3, Congress can now turn its attention to its most pressing issue: How quickly can lawmakers shut down the 110th Congress? They have campaign trails
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Ballmer Raps Google Search
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-06-04
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is disappointed with Google and it has nothing (at least publicly) to do with the search giant's opposition to a possible Yahoo-Microsoft merger. Ballmer, speaking at the American
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Meter Running on All-You-Can-Eat
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-06-03
Time Warner Cable didn't have to do any thinking outside of the box to come up with a new pricing plan for the delivery of Internet services. Instead, TW simply found an old box from the 1990's and blew
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HEARD AT THE BAR: MLB, Nudie Site Strike Out with Supremes
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-06-02
The Supreme Court took a lot of the fun out of the high court's fall session June 2 by refusing to hear cases involving Major League Baseball and the nudie model site, Perfect
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ESA: We're Still Spending Big Lobby Bucks!
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-06-02
In our last post, we noted the Entertainment Software Association has been the big dog among Washington tech trade groups since 2007 when it comes to lobbying bucks. Since the beginning of last
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Lobbying No Game to ESA
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-05-30
Bankrolled by the computer and video game industry, the Entertainment Software Association currently tops all Washington tech trade associations, alliances, coalitions and other groups in lobbying
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McCain Flip Flops on Telco Immunity
By Roy Mark | Posted: 2008-05-29
Let's slap a not so fast label on last week's report that John McCain is against granting immunity to telephone companies that participated in President Bush's warrantless wiretapping of American's
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