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BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Iridium(R) Satellite LLC announces its support of a recent decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to give Iridium exclusive access to 2.625 MHz of previously shared spectrum for global mobile satellite services (MSS). In addition, the FCC granted Iridium 0.95 MHz of shared spectrum.
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Currently the FCC has many critics who feel that the agency is unnecessary and the Communications Act of 1934 outdated. Calls to move communication policymaking into the Executive Branch at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) or to reform the FCC have been heard from both industry and government leaders. Congress has grappled with FCC reform through the legislative process in its most recent sessions. Convergence of telephone and broadcasting technologies could make the separate service requirements under Titles II and III difficult to reform. Whether the commission will be substantially changed in the future is uncertain, but rapid changes in communications technology are placing new burdens on the commission's resources.
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On July 31, the Federal Communications Commission voted on rules that could radically change the type of Internet services and mobile devices available on cellular networks. This issue has dominated the FCC's agenda throughout 2007, as lobbyists swarmed the agency in hopes of…
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Michael Powell, the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), should be excused if he took some time off today from his busy schedule to listen to some music. An apt tune would be from the musical Avenue Q, called "Schadenfreude."
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Lacking sufficient technical information to show cellular phone calls would be safe in flight, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) erred on the side of caution by announcing today that it would not permit use in-flight. This decision was announced today …
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In September 1999, the Commission filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to implement area code conservation methods, which was approved by the FCC on July 20, 2000 for thousand-block number pooling. The authority exists only on an interim basis until a national thousand-block pooling framework is developed and implemented.
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