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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is committed to assisting people living on tribal lands to acquire telecommunication services. Since tribal lands are often located in sparsely populated, remote areas of the country, tribal lands bidding credits are offered to telecommunication providers to help offset some of the costs of providing telecommunication services.
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"The Federal Communications Commission did the right thing in approving the license transfers between Verizon and FairPoint. With its broad industrywide view, the commission is in a position to see the clear benefits this transaction holds for consumers and businesses in the three-state region.
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Earlier this week, Verizon filed an appeal seeking to overturn the rules the Federal Communications Commission plans to apply to the auction next January of the coveted 700-megahertz wireless spectrum. Seems it doesn’t much care for the idea of an open network that would allow consumers to use the phones and software of their choice. In a filing to a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., Verizon Wireless said the rules are “arbitrary, capricious, unsupported by substantial evidence and otherwise contrary to law.”
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A bid of $4.7 billion in the Federal Communications Commission’s 700-MHz auction pushed the nationwide C block over its $4.6 billion reserve price this morning, triggering the spectrum’s open-access provision. Great news for Google, which sought the provision that requires the winning bidder to open the C block spectrum to all devices and software applications.
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CONCORD, N.C., Aug. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CT Communications, Inc. CTCI, today announced that the Federal Communications Commission has approved its proposed merger with Windstream Corporation WIN. This completes all required regulatory approvals for the merger. The parties anticipate that the transaction will close by the end of August 2007. The merger is... still subject to shareholder approval and certain customary closing conditions.
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Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, USA, Kevin Martin gestures while speaking during a working session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Friday Jan. 25, 2008. Buoyed by a burst of optimism from Bill Gates, business and government leaders attending the World Economic Forum were set Friday to hear more about positive things they can do after two days of confronting fears....
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