Posts Tagged ‘FCC’

Broadband Regulation to be set up by FCC

Monday, April 26th, 2010

FCC plans to redefine the policy and protect the broadband consumers, the future of the broadband will be guarded by the new policies. There are more chances of a battle to explode between the telecom companies and federal regulators.
Scott the policy director of Free press said that, “This policy could determine whether the FCC really has the power to act on its broadband plan.”

Popular telecom companies such as AT&T Inc, Verizon communications and other big players will fight out legally in the court battle to find out who’s the cyber boss. Representative of AT&T, Verizon, Time Warner Cable Inc. and leading industry groups  Genachowski said that, “any move by FCC would be a profound mistake with harmful and lasting consequences for consumers and our economy.”

Scott quoted that, “It seems clear that the FCC will decide that its experiment with classifying broadband as an information service has failed and that they’ll revisit the earlier decision, moreover he added that, “Because of the court ruling, telecom companies now hold all the cards,” he said. “If the FCC does anything they don’t like, they can just go back to the courts and say that the agency doesn’t have the authority to do it.”

Let us wait and see who is going to win the battle, whether FCC or giant telecommunication players.

Additional Power for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to enforce Net Neutrality

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

The FCC (Federal Communication Commission) is the most powerful agency that controls communications especially broadband and telephone services in U.S. The chairman of U.S. senate committee has decided to provide more additional authority to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. This additional authority can help FFC to make new National broad band plan and also to enforce net neutrality rules.

Democrat of West Virginia and Senator J. Rockefeller said that, “The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to throw out the FCC’s attempt to enforce Net neutrality rules against Comcast puts the entire broadband plan, released last month, is at risk”.
Julius Genachowski FCC Chairman was advised by Senator J. Rockefeller to go ahead with Net neutrality rules and broadband plans. Leading broad band service providers such as Comcast and others are not willing to heed to FCC, but want to take the authority of FCC. Rockefeller has said that “In the long term, if there is a need to rewrite the law to provide consumers and the FCC and industry with a new framework, I as chairman will take that task on,” he said. “This is a committee — at least so long as I am chairman — that is here to protect people, to protect consumers.”

FCC has started implementing its plans and rules.  According to Genachowski, FCC has started to execute more than 60 proceedings as a part of the plan that has to be implemented this year. FCC’s plan is to have 100 million U.S. homes with 100M bps (bits per second) service by 2020. Moreover 500 MHz of wireless spectrum will be auctioned or will be shared with mobile broadband users over the next 10 years. Also $15.5 billion from the FCC’s Universal Service Fund will be utilized to enhance the broad band service.