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FCC Commissioner Wants Community Colleges to Become Pipelines for America’s 5G Workforce

An FCC Commissioner hopes to mirror Aiken Technical College’s Tower Installation Program in other schools across the country.

  • By Brandi Vincent

FCC Rural Broadband Fund Would Move Funds From Existing Program

The $20 billion proposed initiative would also set higher standards for internet speeds.

  • By Bill Lucia

Should We Give Kids an Internet of Their Own?

Instead of regulating the internet to protect young people, give them a youth-net of their own.

  • By Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic

FCC Creates $20 Billion Rural Broadband Fund

At a briefing with President Trump, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai also said the agency will move forward with a 5G wireless spectrum auction at the end of the year.

  • By Laura Maggi

Lawmakers Seek to Punish Robocallers with Prison Time

New bipartisan legislation aims to help Americans feel it’s safe to answer their phones again.

  • By Brandi Vincent

Finding the Flaws in the Federal Broadband Maps

Frustrated with the FCC maps, the National Association of Counties and other federal agencies are looking to figure out which communities lack broadband access.

  • By Dave Nyczepir

FCC CIO to Get More ‘Significant’ Role

An update to the agency’s organizational rules will give the FCC CIO similar authorities as IT leaders in agencies covered by FITARA.

  • By Aaron Boyd

GAO Urges Congress to Start Moving on a Privacy Law

Researchers recommended lawmakers give regulators more power to write rules and punish the companies that break them.

  • By Jack Corrigan

FCC Chairman Declines to Brief Congress About Location Data Controversy

Lawmakers wanted to hear from the FCC about the recent hot-button issue of mobile carriers selling location data to third parties.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

Lawmaker Asks FCC for Emergency Briefing

The House Energy and Commerce committee chairman wants location data answers, now.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

Senators Call For FCC Investigation of Phone Companies Selling Location Data

Your telecom company knows where you are—and it may be selling that information.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

FCC Shuts Down

But nothing will stop the agency's 5G wireless spectrum auction.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

How States Responded to the Loss of 911 and Other Services

CenturyLink’s recent outage is being investigated by at least two states, in addition to the FCC.

  • By Dave Nyczepir

FCC Approves Google's Motion Sensor Tech

Radar-based motion sensing gets a government thumbs up.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

Farm Bill Expands Rural Broadband Funding

But some remain concerned that the money will not get to many places that need it to expand access.

  • By Dave Nyczepir

Microsoft Is On Its Way to Bringing Internet to 3 Million People in Rural America by 2022

The software company is expanding its work into 10 more U.S. states.

  • By Mike Murphy, Quartz

Congress Wants to Confront Facebook, Robocallers and Data-Throttlers

Lawmakers also encouraged the Pentagon to continue helping civilian agencies in cyber matters.

  • By Joseph Marks and Jack Corrigan

How Well Did Wireless Carriers Respond to Natural Disasters? The FCC Wants to Know.

The agency hopes to measure how well they will respond to the next crisis.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

Senators, Providers Criticize ‘Unpredictable’ FCC Funding for Rural Broadband

“Cutting [Universal Service Fund] support cuts the legs out of the business case for rural broadband in many places,” said one telecom CEO.

  • By Dave Nyczepir

Broadband Access Lags on Tribal Lands, Study Finds

More than a third of Americans residing on tribal land lack high-speed internet access.

  • By Kate Elizabeth Queram