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InternetNews December 15, 2004 Roy Mark	FCC Grants Bells More Local Relief The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 today to phase out its controversial, eight-year plan to promote local telephone competition by forcing incumbent Bells to lease parts of their networks to competitors at below-market rates.
InternetNews January 21, 2005 Roy Mark	Powell Resigns From FCC Regulatory chief leaves controversial legacy on telecom and Internet issues.
InternetNews August 24, 2004 Roy Mark	Bells Challenge FCC's Latest Line-Sharing Rules Verizon and Qwest rushed to court Monday to challenge the Federal Communications Commission's latest ruling on line sharing and access fees between incumbent telcos and their competitors.
InternetNews March 3, 2004 Roy Mark	Court Order Doesn't Alter FCC High-Speed Rules While stirring up a controversy over discount line pricing for long distance carriers, court upholds FCC broadband regulations.
Knowledge@Wharton March 12, 2003	The FCC's Latest Telecom Ruling: Far-Reaching, Yes, But Also Far From Clear A recent vote on deregulation by the Federal Communications Commission left many questions unanswered and none of the players in the telecommunications industry entirely satisfied.
InternetNews August 5, 2005 Roy Mark	Bells Free From DSL Obligations In a significant policy victory for the incumbent carriers, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unanimously voted today to eliminate DSL line-sharing rules. The FCC imposes a one-year transition period for ISPs to renegotiate.
InternetNews November 17, 2005 Roy Mark	Abernathy Resigns From FCC Republican Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy's departure may leave Democrats temporarily in control as Senate considers Bush nominations to the Federal Communications Commission.
InternetNews December 6, 2004 Roy Mark	Supreme Court to Hear Broadband Access Case Justices will review the 9th Circuit decision that overturned the FCC on cable modem providers sharing their fiber optic lines with ISPs.
InternetNews October 14, 2004 Roy Mark	SBC High Tails Fiber Buildout Within an hour of the Federal Communications Commission's broadband ruling today, SBC Communications said it would "dramatically accelerate" its plan to build a new fiber-optics network.
InternetNews July 13, 2004 Roy Mark	FCC's Powell Joins Blogger Roll The chairman jumps into give-and-take world of blogging and gets an ear full from telecom.
InternetNews June 10, 2004 Colin C. Haley	VoIP All Smiles on FCC's Line-Sharing Move Will voice over IP benefit from the government's decision to forgo a Supreme Court appeal of telephone line-sharing rules?
InternetNews August 30, 2004 Roy Mark	FCC Sends Cable Dispute to Supreme Court Agency wants high court to overturn decision forcing cable companies to share high-speed lines with other ISPs.
InternetNews March 10, 2005 Roy Mark	Powell's Last Mile as FCC Chairman At his last public meeting, Michael Powell praises agency, laments personal attacks, and punts on his legacy.
InternetNews November 17, 2004 Roy Mark	Adelstein Gets The Nod for Another FCC Term President Bush nominated Democrat Jonathan Adelstein Tuesday for a new five-year term on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee plans a Thursday confirmation hearing on the nomination.
InternetNews February 10, 2005 Roy Mark	Powell Rips FCC Delay on Connection Fee Reform After four years of study, FCC votes to keep thinking about it.
InternetNews June 14, 2004 Roy Mark	Supreme Court Refuses to Grant Line-Sharing Stay High court leaves in place June 16 mandate forcing long distance carriers to negotiate with incumbent telcos at market rates.
InternetNews May 19, 2005 Roy Mark	FCC Mandates 911 VoIP Service Agency orders incumbent carriers to make their 911 networks available to Internet telephone companies.
InternetNews August 4, 2004 Roy Mark	FCC Says VoIP Subject to Wiretap Laws The preliminary decision will force Voice over IP providers to comply with the same law enforcement rules as telephone carriers.
InternetNews August 8, 2005 Roy Mark	Wiretaps For VoIP The FCC gives broadband and VoIP providers 18 months to build in network wiretap accessibility.
InternetNews December 4, 2006 Roy Mark	FCC Chairman Wants to Break AT&T-BellSouth Lock Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin has ordered agency lawyers to determine if FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell can "unrecuse" himself from the AT&T-BellSouth merger vote.
InternetNews January 25, 2005 Roy Mark	Speculation Over Powell Replacement Begins Current FCC Commissioner Kevin Martin is among a number of folks being bandied about to fill the top spot. Whoever the president appoints, analysts predict there will be no major policy changes at the FCC.
InternetNews November 3, 2006 Roy Mark	Net Neut. Delays AT&T-BellSouth Vote Again FCC remains deadlocked over attaching additional network neutrality conditions to deal.
InternetNews September 9, 2004 Roy Mark	FCC Splits on U.S. Broadband Rollout Success Despite the U.S. being ranked eleventh in the world in broadband penetration, commissioners narrowly approve a report to Congress praising deployment rates of high-speed services.
InternetNews March 28, 2005 Roy Mark	Bells Freed From 'Naked' DSL The FCC decision pre-empts efforts by states to force regional carriers to offer 'naked' DSL (i.e. service without any bells and whistles like voice service).
InternetNews November 10, 2005 Roy Mark	FCC Nomination Tips Scales to Right President Bush plans to nominate Tennessee utility regulator Deborah Taylor Tate to fill one of the vacant Republican slots on the five-person Federal Communications Commission.
BusinessWeek February 7, 2005 Catherine Yang	Getting Real At The FCC Unlike Michael K. Powell, the next chairman must put ideology aside to foster new services. The new chairman must safeguard basic communications services and promote new entrants who'll create competition.
InternetNews December 14, 2005 Roy Mark	Tate, Copps Near Confirmation for FCC Federal Communications Commission nominees Deborah Taylor Tate and Michael Copps are likely to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate within the next two weeks, Senate Commerce Chairman Ted Stevens said Tuesday.
InternetNews August 16, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Federal Court Denies Unbundling Review A federal appeals court denied EarthLink's request to review an FCC ruling exempting Baby Bells from sharing broadband lines with rivals.
InternetNews January 13, 2005 Roy Mark	Powell Questions States' VoIP Appeals Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell said today that states appealing the FCC's November decision ruling Voice over IP an interstate service "pretty much makes zero sense to me."
InternetNews March 23, 2007 Roy Mark	FCC Begins Net Neutrality Inquiry The FCC launches a period of public comment on need for network neutrality provisions.
InternetNews March 21, 2006 Roy Mark	Verizon's Broadband Regulatory Relief Verizon Communications scored a major victory Monday when a sharply divided Federal Communications Commission approved the telecom giant's petition to deregulate its commercial broadband lines.
InternetNews June 11, 2004 Roy Mark	Last Minute Plea For Line-Sharing Rule Long distance provider AT&T leads charge to convince high court to stay decision forcing long distance carriers to negotiate line access at market rates.
InternetNews December 8, 2006 Roy Mark	Dumpster Ethics Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin played his hole card the other day to break the FCC's deadlock over approving the AT&T-BellSouth merger that would create the world's largest telecommunications company.
InternetNews October 31, 2005 Roy Mark	Final Fed OK to Telecom Mergers FCC signs off on telecom mergers as SBC and Verizon agree to sell standalone DSL, adhere to network neutrality and continue Internet backbone peering.
InternetNews December 20, 2006 Roy Mark	Telcos Granted Video Franchising Relief Divided FCC votes to streamline telephone companies' marketplace entry into triple play race.
InternetNews November 10, 2004 Roy Mark	Congress Praises FCC VoIP Ruling Both sides of the Voice over IP divide weighed in on yesterday's Federal Communications Commission ruling that stipulates the interstate nature of VoIP services.
InternetNews February 12, 2004 Roy Mark	VoIP Has New Guidelines From FCC The agency issues a ruling on Pulver's request to be regulation-free and starts to frame new policy for the VoIP sector.
InternetNews August 1, 2005 Roy Mark	FCC Chief Pushing For DSL Deregulation New FCC chairman circulating proposal to give telcos' broadband the same status as cable modems.
InternetNews March 19, 2007 Roy Mark	Verizon, AT&T Headed For Monopoly Bliss? Without a re-evaluation of the broadband commercial marketplace by the Federal Communications Commission, Internet Service Providers claim incumbent carriers like Verizon and AT&T will hold a virtual monopoly.
InternetNews October 13, 2006 Roy Mark	AT&T-BellSouth Merger Approval Stalled The Federal Communications Commission delayed a vote on the AT&T and BellSouth merger today and rescheduled the issue for Nov. 3.
InternetNews September 28, 2005 Roy Mark	FCC Rings New Round of Regulatory Uncertainty The Federal Communications Commission's rules on Voice over IP wiretapping accessibility is likely to set off another round of regulatory uncertainty, all in the name of regulatory certainty.
InternetNews April 29, 2005 Roy Mark	Martin Skips VoIP in First FCC Meeting The new FCC chairman plans to push mandatory 911 VoIP services at next month's meeting.
InternetNews March 22, 2005 Roy Mark	Level 3 Drops VoIP Rate Request The VoIP wholesaler withdraws petition seeking FCC ruling on interconnection fees.
Salon.com June 7, 2002 Jeffrey Benner	Getting a lock on broadband How the FCC is paving the way for a few big companies to control everyone's high-speed Internet access.
InternetNews March 15, 2007 Roy Mark	House Democrats Blast FCC Policies Democrats found fault with the FCC's handling of the AT&T-BellSouth merger, broadband penetration rates, the digital television transition, cable franchise rules and lack of interoperability among first responders.
InternetNews May 6, 2005 Roy Mark	FCC Rejects SBC's VoIP Bid Agency rules its broader IP review pre-empts SBC's petition to free broadband networks from legacy telecom regulations.
InternetNews March 16, 2007 Roy Mark	ISPs Challenge FCC Broadband Rules A group of Internet service providers including EarthLink and Time Warner Telecom, went to court Friday to challenge Federal Communications Commission rules that free wireline telecom carriers from line-sharing obligations.
InternetNews May 12, 2004 Roy Mark	EarthLink: Telecom Reform Unnecessary Nation's third largest ISP tells Congress it should focus on enforcing current law, while broadband providers Verizon and Comcast argue for new ones.
InternetNews November 9, 2004 Roy Mark	FCC Rules VoIP an Interstate Service Voice over IP services are interstate in nature and not subject to traditional state public utility regulation, the Federal Communications Commission decided today.
InternetNews August 9, 2005 Roy Mark	FCC: 'Net Neutrality' For All U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) urges Congress to make FCC's principles of open networks part of telecom reform.