All posts tagged "FCC"

Shocker - government meddling doesn’t work out the way government intended.

(Rick Manning, Americans for Limited Government) – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seems bent on usurping congressional Article One authority, as their just-announced decision to consider including the “exclusivity rule” on their docket for their next open meeting shows. Let’s be clear: There is no legitimate free-market argument for the FCC to once...

(Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – I’m not like Rush Limbaugh. No matter how much I disagree with a sitting President, I would never wish for his failure in public. In fact, I said on January 20, 2009 and still believe that anybody who watched the inauguration and didn’t have just a little...

(Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – Is it possible that the bureaucrats in Washington have completely lost their minds? (A rhetorical question at best.) First, what passes for an Attorney General sics the Department of so-called Justice on AT&T when the company wants to buy T-Mobile. Why? Well, it’s an election year, the...

Today, the Gary Johnson presidential campaign has filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) due to his being excluded from the upcoming debate to be held on Saturday in South Carolina. Below are copies of both complaints. The former governor of New Mexico was a...

(Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – This is probably going to surprise my regular readers a bit, but I have a hard time getting too worked up over the bankruptcy of Solyndra and the Obama administration’s faux pas in pushing the Department of Energy to grant a half a billion dollar loan guarantee...

(Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – Last week, some very nice people from AT&T came by our Elko offices to enlist our support in the battle they are waging with Federal regulators for approval of their acquisition of T-Mobile. Since I happen to be a veteran of battles at the Federal Communications Commission,...

(David Mansdoerfer) – Today, Senator Dean Heller (R – NV) led a coalition of ten U.S. senators...

(David Mansdoerfer) – Recently, AT&T agreed to buy T-Mobile for $39 billion dollars. If this deal goes through, AT&T will then become the nation’s largest wireless carrier – supplanting Verizon for the top dog. To many, this deal represents little more than two large companies coming together to make a giant company....