US lawmakers urge review of government surveillance activities
Several US lawmakers called Sunday for a review of the government's surveillance activity in light of recent reports revealing phone and Internet monitoring. Lawmakers have also called for a criminal investigation into the activities of Edward Snowden, who came...
The National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting call data from Verizon customers under a top secret court order published by The Guardian Wednesday. The court order, granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday upheld a federal rule requiring mobile-data providers to offer roaming agreements to other providers on "commercially reasonable" terms. In April 2011 the...
DOJ orders changes in Verizon-cable deals to foster competition
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that it will require Verizon and four cable companies to make changes in service agreements to ensure that the agreements do not suppress competition . In...
JURIST Guest Columnist Jim Chen of the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law says that the recent court decision allowing Sprint and Cellular South to pursue antitrust claims against the proposed AT&T and T-Mobile merger is an...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced comprehensive changes on Thursday to its national communications subsidy program to make high-speed internet access available in rural areas . The Connect America Fund ...
Seven states join DOJ lawsuit opposing AT&T, T-Mobile merger
Seven states, including California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington, on Friday joined an antitrust lawsuit initiated by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) attempting to block a proposed $39 billion acquisition...
Telecom giant AT&T filed a response Friday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia to the antitrust lawsuit initiated against it by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) . The DOJ...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday filed a civil antitrust lawsuit to block the proposed $39 billion acquisition of cellular carrier T-Mobile USA by telecom giant AT&T . The agency filed suit ...
