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The Biden administration’s requirement that broadband providers buy domestically made parts for infrastructure development is a misguided protectionist policy that will exacerbate current supply chain issues and delay efforts to close the digital divide. President Joe Biden emphasized the “Buy...

Senator Josh Hawley’s (R–MO) Ending Support for Internet Censorship Act (S. 1914) is intended to address claims of anti-conservative biasREF by Facebook, Google, and other Internet platforms. If enacted, however, the bill’s prescription for regulating online content would risk eroding free speech rather than protecting it.

(The Center Square) – A two-plus year lawsuit against a Maine law pertaining to cable companies won’t be heard by the nation’s highest court.

Facing a crowded legislative calendar before adjournment, Congress is rushing to complete work on the most sweeping overhaul of the nation's telecommunications system in sixty years. The pending legislation takes important steps to deregulate the system by allowing the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs), or "Baby Bells," to enter the long distance and equipment manufacturing markets and by ending the ban on compe- tition between telephone and cable companies. Yet disagreeme...

Charter challenged Maine law requiring prorated refunds

Many television critics say that America is experiencing a new “Golden Age of Television,” citing an abundance of high-quality programming available today. That judgment is of course a matter of opinion. What is certain, however, is that today’s TV marketplace offers consumers more choices, more competition, and more innovation that ever before. From a service providing perhaps three to seven channels of programming a generation ago, and roughly 200 channels a decade ago, TV is now able to...

The rich digital and onsite resources of the Library of American Broadcasting are an indispensable repository of the industry’s history. Its upcoming Giants of Broadcasting and the Electronic Arts Award Luncheon on Nov. 15 is the most direct way to support its efforts.

FCC Chairman William Kennard called for the creation of "anational, competitive, deregulatory telecommunications policy."

APTS, PBS file comments in FCC must carry proceedings

A law in the early 1900s stripped women of citizenship if they married a noncitizen, meaning they weren't able to vote.