Tag: FCC

The commission determined that the vast majority of operators face “effective competition” from satellite and telco companies. That so-called “rebuttable presumption” stripped local officials...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman, Ajit Pai, appointed Dr. Jerry Ellig as chief economist for the telecoms regulator. Dr. Ellig is currently a senior research...

The federal appeals court in Washington, DC, has removed a temporary regulatory hurdle to Sinclair Broadcast’s US$3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune Media. The court of...

The Republican-led Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to begin undoing a key decision from the Obama era that could relax regulations on Internet providers. The...

Posted by Social Science Research Network Exclusion in Digital Markets By Konstantinos Stylianou (University of Leeds) Abstract:     Exclusionary practices and effects are at the core of...

Former FCC general counsel and later deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice's antitrust division, Jonathan Sallet has joined law firm Steptoe...

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai may be planning to restore the UHF station discount that will relax the ownership rules for broadcasters. According to The Wall...

In an interview with Harvard Law professor Crawford, recently-departed FCC boss Tom Wheeler warns that the new administration's agenda for the agency (gutting net...

President-elect Donald Trump met with Republican FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai this weekend as many wonder what direction his administration will take the agency in....

Sen. Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that he would enforce the nation's antitrust laws as attorney general and that "certain mergers should not occur." "I have...