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WASHINGTON-The National Telecommunications and Information Administration came under fire last week by congressional Republicans who charged that some agency functions are redundant and attacked grant programs as a waste of …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission would be phased out over five years and spectrum management given over to a board with limited powers, under a new balanced budget proposal by a …

WASHINGTON-Now that most of the spectrum earmarked for auction has been sold by the Federal Communications Commission, the question of spectrum management for the future is on the front burner …

WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) has accused Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt of going forward with a plan to link schools and libraries to the Internet without …

Clinton II and greener pastures are generating more exits, some through the infamous revolving door. Bob McNamara, chief of the FCC’s Private Wireless Division, is leaving the agency after 21 …

WASHINGTON-An innovative government-subsidized program is placing schools, libraries, hospitals, local governments, public safety agencies, community organizations and other groups at the cutting edge of new wireless and wireline telecommunications applications. …

Donald Gips has a penchant for throwing himself into his work-and play-with reckless finesse and abandon. And he’s paying for it today with a severely ruptured disc on the mend …

WASHINGTON-In a formal ceremony Sept. 16 attended by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt and Assistant Secretary of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Larry Irving, the Public Safety Wireless …

WASHINGTON-The U.S. low-earth-orbit data satellite market may end up far less competitive than envisioned as policymakers struggle to craft rules around a smaller-than-anticipated spectrum allocation capable of supporting only a …

WASHINGTON-Lawmakers return this week to tackle a handful of telecommunications policy and funding issues before adjourning in a month to campaign in House and Senate races. Appropriations bills will dominate …

WASHINGTON-The job of exporting the information revolution appears increasingly better suited to National Telecommunications and Information Administration chief Larry Irving than to Mickey Kantor, who was named Commerce Secretary four …

WASHINGTON-Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor, touting economic accomplishments of the Clinton administration and laying out his own agenda, said America must continue to invest in high technology and press for free …

WASHINGTON-Rep. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.), chairman of the House commerce appropriations subcommittee, said the Federal Communications Commission will not receive the $223 million requested for fiscal 1997 and blasted FCC Chairman …

WASHINGTON-In a long-awaited study, two Clinton administration economists say flaws in Federal Communications Commission bidding rules forced firms to pay relatively more for less populated markets in the first broadband …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has given the wireless community in general, and the public-safety arena in particular, an extra-long comment period to ponder the agency’s thoughts on the future spectrum …

I’ve got a scoop! I think I now know how President Clinton plans to balance the budget. By selling the budget-all five volumes of the fiscal ’97 spending plan for …

WASHINGTON-With telecommunications reform behind it, Congress now wants to overhaul the Federal Communications Commission. “The key issue is whether a regulatory agency-the Federal Communications Commission-devised in the 1930s based on …

WASHINGTON-In a bold speech with profound and far-reaching policy implications, new Federal Communications Commission Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Chief Michele Farquhar said she will pursue policies to help wireless carriers compete …

A new study issued by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration said wireless telephone service may be a desirable alternative to wireline service in some rural areas because of cost …

WASHINGTON-Michele Farquhar is leaving the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to return to the Federal Communications Commission as head of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, a move strongly supported by industry. …

WASHINGTON-The wireless telecommunications industry may have to tap into federal government and broadcast spectrum, implement new technologies and share more to meet operational requirements in the future, says a new …

Of all the recruits at the Hundt-led Federal Communications Commission, perhaps none has received fewer headlines and contributed more than Christopher Wright. Wright, deputy general counsel, successfully defended entrepreneur block …

WASHINGTON-The GOP-led Congress this fall will tackle landmark budget and telecommunications bills as part of a legislative agenda so sweeping and historic in scope that the outcome may well determine …

WASHINGTON-William Roth, R-Del., chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, will offer legislation this week or next to abolish the agency that advises the president on telecommunications policy and manages …

Reports are circulating that some within the Republican Party are organizing to dismantle the Federal Communications Commission, citing there is no longer a need for a government organization to regulate …