Posts tagged Fcc
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Breakfast links: Rollback on Walmart
Walmart, not a Prince George’s savior; Preserve Emerald Street?; Turf wars in Alexandria; WMATA’s labor problem; FCC says keep the WiFi; Beach Drive takes a vacation; Housing insecure, still; And…. Keep reading…
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T-Mobile anti-innovation actions mirror transit data debate
This blog isn’t about consumer technology, but some recent news in the mobile carrier world has created grave worry and reflects the fight we had over opening up transit data to the public. It’s time for me to get a new smartphone. I’ve been a pretty happy T-Mobile customer for years, and was one of the first to buy the G1, the first Android phone. I was getting excited… Keep reading…
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Pump up the volume for low power community radio
The deregulation of many media sources means that a few powerful corporations control much of our daily information. Since 1975, two-thirds of independent newspaper owners have disappeared. Today less than 275 of the nation’s 1,500 daily newspapers remain independently owned, and more than half of all U.S. markets are dominated by one paper. The airwaves are also becoming… Keep reading…