Following years of debate and controversy, the Federal Communications Commission is set to hold a new vote on April 25 that will likely reinstate net neutrality, restoring protections affecting broadband internet usage in the United States. Net Neutrality as a policy functions as the principle that internet providers should handle web traffic equally regardless of […]
You can complain about the government all you want, but sometimes it does useful things. In this case, the Federal Communications Commission, has begun stirring up competition between internet service providers that offer their wares to apartment complexes. Currently, most Americans who live in apartments only have one choice of internet providers. Oftentimes it is […]
This is sort of nifty. The Federal Communications Commission on Monday called on users to test their internet speeds using the FCC Speed Test app to help further its research into broadband availability through the Measuring Broadband America Program. The FCC offered the following comments as to how this will help its efforts to provide […]
It probably wasn’t the best idea to sell their customers’ geolocation data to third-party aggregators in the first place. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Friday issued a total of $200 million in fines to the nation’s four largest cellular carriers for selling access to real-time consumer geolocation data to third-party aggregators. AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, […]
This could imply a few different things. According to recent filings with the FCC, Apple has requested permission for a special license to install GPS equipment. This both indicates that Apple is planning to increase its GPS testing, and marks the first time Apple has requested such a license. For the purposes of licensing, GPS […]