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Doubling Of Text Message Rates Provokes Senate InquiryOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 118 days ago (http://www.informationweek.com)
Category: communications | Tags text message rates, senate inquiry, wireless, cell, herb kohl, senate, price increase,
"Sen. Herb Kohl asked the top four U.S. wireless providers to explain why they raised text message prices almost simultaneously last year." read more »
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US Senate wants answers on soaring text ratesOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by Irishmack007 119 days ago (http://go.theregister.com)
Category: internet | Tags us, senate, answers, soaring, text, rates, T&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, antitrust,
The chair of the Antitrust Subcommittee in the Senate Judiciary Committee has written to the four largest US network operators demanding they explain why the cost of texting has doubled since 2005. AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile are being affected by this antitrust investigation. read more »
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Senate approves telecom immunity in spy cases, rejects compromises.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 329 days ago (http://government.zdnet.com)
Category: security | Tags senate, telecom, government, surveillance, , , , , , , ,
Richard Koman reports on the Senate's decision to approve retroactive immunity for telecommunications that helped the United States Government surveil telephone conversations and rejects compromises read more »
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Senate testimony: Google's efforts to better connect citizens to governmentOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 389 days ago (http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com)
Category: internet | Tags google, senate, citizens, government, effort, , , , , , ,
Pablo Chavez writes over on the official Google Policy Blog on Google's recent testimony before the Senate on their efforts to ensure that governmental websites are indexable by search engines thus read more »
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Senate helping make government more searchable.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 421 days ago (http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com)
Category: internet | Tags senate, government, searchable, google, , , , , , , ,
Liz Eraker a Policy Analyst over at Google has written on the Google Public Policy Blog about the Senate's efforts to push governmental agencies towards better design standards that will allow gover read more »
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Senators Threatening Telcos With Probe Over Net NeutralityOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 439 days ago (http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: internet | Tags senate, senators, net, neutrality, comcast, , , , , , ,
Erick Schonfeld reports over at TechCrunch that Senators are beginning to take note of the telecommunications industry attempts to rock the boat when it comes to net neutrality and that a probe may b read more »
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Google's Senate testimony on online advertising and Google-DoubleClickOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 464 days ago (http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com)
Category: internet | Tags google, senate, testimony, advertising, , , , , , , ,
Pablo Chavez offers up on Google's Public Policy Blog a summary of David Drummond's testimony before the senate on online advertising and the Google-Doubleclick merger. This includes an embedded vi read more »
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FCC commissioners: US in dire need of "national broadband strategy."Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 466 days ago (http://arstechnica.com)
Category: internet | Tags national, broadband, senate, fcc, , , , , , , ,
Two FCC Commissioners - Copps and Adelstein - suggested before the Senate that the United States need to consider a national broadband strategy which would increase the reach and competitiveness of b read more »
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