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Statements for 2008

9/12/08
Letter From Commissioner Copps to Chairman Martin Proposing Steps the FCC Should Take to Advance the DTV Transition.
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9/12/08
FCC Seeks Comment on Additional Ways to Strengthen USF Administration and Oversight.
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9/6/08
FCC Grants Forbearance from Legacy Reporting and Accounting Requirements, Seeks Comment on Industry-Wide Reporting.
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8/26/08
Commission Denies OrbitCom Request for Forbearance.
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8/25/08
FCC Seeks Comment on Implementation of NET 911 Improvement Act.
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8/5/08
Commission Approves Transaction Between Sirius Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and XM Satellite Radio Holdings, Inc. Subject to Conditions.
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8/5/08
FCC Grants Qwest Forbearance.
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8/1/08
FCC Examines Fees Used to Fund Commission Budget.
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8/1/08
FCC Consents With Conditions to Verizon Wireless Acquisition of Rural Cellular Corporation's Licenses, Authorizations, and Spectrum Manager Leases.
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8/1/08
Commission Orders Comcast to End Discriminatory Network Management Practices.
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7/30/08
FCC Public En Banc Hearing in Brooklyn, NY, on Public Safety Interoperable Communications and the 700 MHz D Block Proceeding.
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7/29/08
FCC En Banc Hearing and Conference on Overcoming Barriers to Communications Financing, New York, NY.
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7/28/08
Commission Approves Transaction Between Sirius Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and XM Satellite Radio Holdings, Inc. Subject to Conditions.
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7/25/08
FCC Denies Qwest Forbearance Requests for Four Metropolitan Areas.
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7/21/08
En Banc Hearing on Broadband and the Digital Future, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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7/2/08
Affirmed Modification of Construction Permit for KFME-FM, Garden City, MO.
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6/26/08
FCC Seeks Comment on Sponsorship Identification Rules and Embedded Advertising Techniques.
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6/24/08
FCC Adopts Telephone Numbering System and E-911 Requirements for Providers of Internet-Based Telecommunications Relay Services.
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6/24/08
Commission Seeks Comment on Changes in Speech-to-Speech Telecommunications Relay Service Regulations; Tentatively Concludes that Internet Protocol Speech-to-Speech is Compensable from the Interstate TRS Fund.
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6/23/08
FCC Grants Formal Complaint Regarding Verizon Customer Retention Practices.
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6/17/08
Rules Amended to Require Telemarketers to Honor Do-Not-Call List Registrations Indefinitely.
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6/12/08
Public Hearing on Early Termination Fees.
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6/12/08
FCC Revises Broadband Data Collection Order.
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5/22/08
The Commission Denies the Applications for Review of Idaho Wireless Corporation and Astounding Productions, Inc. related to InterMart Broadcasting's Auction 25 Applications for New FM Stations in Pocatello and Twin Falls, Idaho.
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5/22/08
FCC Denies Application for Review of Sharon Berlin Ingles.
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5/16/08
Senate Vote to Overturn FCC's Flawed Media Ownership Decision.
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5/14/08
FCC Seeks Comment on How to Proceed With the Reauction of the 700 MHz D Block Spectrum and Creation of a Nationwide, Interoperable Public Safety Broadband Network.
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5/1/08
FCC Takes Action to Cap High Cost Support Under the Universal Service Fund.
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4/24/08
Joint Statement with Commissioner Adelstein on FCC Granting AT&T Forbearance From Legacy Cost Assignment Rules.
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4/17/08
Public En Banc Hearing at Stanford University on Broadband Network Management Practices.
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4/15/08
Written Statement Before the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, U.S. House of Representatives.
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4/11/08
FCC Conditionally Designates Tracfone as an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier for Lifeline Service In Several States.
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4/9/08
FCC Adopts Rules for Delivery of Commercial Mobile Alerts to the Public During Emergencies.
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3/27/08
Direct Broadcast Satellite Carriage of Digital Television Broadcast Signals.
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3/27/08
Comcast and BitTorrent Announcement.
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3/20/08
FCC Delinks 700 MHz Upper D Block From Other Blocks, Will Release Information on 700 MHz Auction Winning Bidders.
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3/19/08
Adopted Emergency Call Handling Requirements for Internet-based TRS Providers.
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3/19/08
FCC Expands, Improves Broadband Data Collection.
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3/19/08
FCC Bans Exclusive Contracts for Telecommunications Services in Apartment Buildings.
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3/17/08
Commissioner Copps Pleased That Supreme Court Will Review Fox v. FCC.
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3/14/08
FCC Denies Application for Review and Motion for Stay in Assignment of Construction Permit for WEHM(FM) , Southampton, NY.
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3/7/08
Commission Grants Mobile Satellite Ventures and SkyTerra Communications Petition for Declaratory Ruling.
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3/3/08
FCC Adopts Digital Television Consumer Education Order.
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2/28/08
FCC Modifies Hearing Aid Compatibility Rules to Improve Access for Americans With Hearing Loss to Wireless Handsets.
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2/25/08
FCC Approves Transfer Of Control Of Direct TV To Liberty Media Subject To Conditions.
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2/25/08
FCC Denies Petition for Reconsideration of the Conditioned Approval of the News Corp-DirecTV Merger.
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2/25/08
FCC En Banc Hearing On Broadband Network Management Practices.
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2/20/08
Statement of Commissioner Copps in Response to the D.C. Circuit's Decision Vacating the FCC's Denial and Dismissal of the Gulf Coast Migratory Birds Petition.
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2/12/08
Commission Modifies the Condition Set Forth in Paragraph 47 of the March 27, 2007, Order Approving the Acquisition of Univision Communications, Inc.
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2/8/08
FCC Consents to T-Mobile's Acquisition of SunCom's Wireless Licenses and Authorizations.
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2/5/08
FCC Designates Spectrum And Provides Guidance For Participation In A Spectrum Sharing Innovation Test-Bed.
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2/4/08
Joint Statement with Commissioner Adelstein on Release of Media Ownership Order.
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2/4/08
FCC Releases Annual Report on State of Competition in Wireless Industry.
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2/4/08
FCC Approves AT&T's Acquisition of Aloha Spectrum Holding's 700 MHz Licenses.
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1/31/08
NTIA's Broadband Report.
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1/29/08
Commission issues NPRM seeking comment on rules governing the amount of high-cost universal service support provided to competitive eligible telecommunications carriers (Identical Support NPRM).
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1/29/08
Commission issues NPRM seeking comment on the merits of using reverse auctions to determine the amount of high-cost universal service support provided to eligible telecommunications carriers serving rural, insular, and high-cost areas (Reverse Auctions NPRM).
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1/29/08
Commission issues NPRM seeking comment on the recommendation of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service regarding comprehensive reform of high-cost universal service support (Joint Board NPRM).
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1/9/08
FCC Grants Transfer of Control of Verizon's Northern New England Operations to Fairpoint Communications.
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last reviewed/updated on September 12, 2008  


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