Tom Wheeler
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Sen. Al Franken Questions Whether Comcast Can Be Trusted With Time Warner Cable
“To the extent that Comcast has a history of breaching its legal obligations to consumers, such history should be taken into account”
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FCC Squashes Notion That It Will Study How TV News Stations Make Editorial Decisions
“Any suggestion that the FCC intends to regulate the speech of news media or plans to put monitors in America’s newsrooms is false”
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Netflix Prime Time Speeds Plummet on Verizon FiOS, Pushing Net Neutrality in Spotlight
Load times fall 14 percent
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FCC Will Create New Net Neutrality Rules
Court decision will not be the end of FCC’s open internet efforts
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Big Win for Net Neutrality? How the Comcast-Time Warner Deal Can Help Save the Open Internet
Comcast needs government approval for its merger — a chance for regulators to leverage an extension of Net Neutrality protections
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Comcast’s Time Warner Cable Deal Will Be ‘Excruciating Wrestling Match’ With Regulators
“This merger is not going to fly through … no matter how it goes”
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Battle Over the FCC’s Future Kickstarted Again in Congress
Greg Walden rips the FCC for taking too long to review communications deals and for overreaching in demanding concessions such as in the Comcast-NBCU merger
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FCC at Crossroads on Indecency Rules – Enforce or Risk Another ‘Nipplegate’?
The commission has shown little appetite for wading into the culture wars, but it may have no choice when it comes to the issue of profanity and nudity
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Obama’s FCC Pick Tom Wheeler Appears Before Senate Committee
During the session, he promises to balance competition with regulation as debate falls into partisan lines
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Obama’s FCC Choice Tom Wheeler Faces Senate Confirmation Hearing Tuesday
Senate expected to move quickly to confirm former chairman Julius Genachowski's replacement
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Obama Formally Taps Tom Wheeler as FCC Chairman
Despite Wheeler’s ties to industry associations, he is expected to reinforce the FCC’s commitment to net neutrality, which the president has strongly supported
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Obama Expected to Name Tom Wheeler as FCC Chairman
Some consumer groups are already expressing concern that Wheeler will have less commitment to Net Neutrality and media ownership issues