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Comments on Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services

March 26, 2013

The New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute joined numerous public interest groups in submitting comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with regard to prison phone rates. Read the full text of the comments (pdf) here.

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Comments on 3550 MHz Proceedings

  • and Sean Vitka
March 14, 2013

The Public Interest Spectrum Coalition strongly supports the Commission’s goal to make up to 150 megahertz of contiguous spectrum available for innovative mobile and fixed broadband services in the 3550-3700 MHz band.

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Reply Comments on TV Incentive Auctions

  • and Sean Vitka
March 14, 2013

The Public Interest Spectrum Coalition (PISC) firmly believes the Federal Communications Commission can best optimize TV band spectrum for broadband deployment, innovation, job creation, consumer welfare and economic growth more broadly only by ensuring the availability of a substantial number of 6 MHz blocks of unlicensed access to TV White Space spectrum in every local market, with a portion of that spectrum being contiguous nationwide.

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Comments on the Draft Guidance for the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Sector on Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

February 25, 2013

New America Senior Fellow Rebecca MacKinnon and the staff of the Open Technology Institute recently submitted these comments (pdf) on the European Commission’s Draft Guidance for the Information and Communications Technologies ("ICT") Sector on Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

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Comments on Progeny Location and Monitoring Service Rules

  • and John Bergmayer of Public Knowedge
January 30, 2013

After careful review, the Open Technology Institute and Public Knowledge believe that it appears likely that the operation of Progeny’s system would adversely impact the operational performance of unlicensed smart grid and broadband wireless devices. The test results suggest potentially devastating consequences for unlicensed use of the only contiguous

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Comments on TV Incentive Auctions

  • and Sean Vitka
January 28, 2013

The Open Technology Institute and the Wireless Future Project at the New America Foundation, Consumer Federation of America, Public Knowledge and the National Hispanic Media Coalition (collectively, the “Public Interest Spectrum Coalition” or “PISC”) submitted these comments in response to the Public Notice released by the Federal Communications Commission regarding: "Expanding the Economic and Innovation Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive Auctions".

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Comments Regarding Sensitive Technologies Guidance

  • By Access Now, the Center for Democracy and Technology, Collin Anderson, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute
January 12, 2013

On January 12, 2013, a coalition of civil society organizations including the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute submitted comments to the U.S. Department of State in response to Public Notice 8086, the State Department Sanctions Information and Guidance issued on November 8, 2012. The executive summary of the coalition's recommendations with regard to the definition of "Sensitive Technology" is below.

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Reply Comments on Mobile Privacy

July 30, 2012

While various commenters would prefer to rely on the rhetoric proffered in the Commission’s 2007 proceeding, their comments reflect the same opacity and blind faith in voluntary behavior to protect privacy, the effectiveness of which has failed to materialize in the five years following the Commissions last assessment of its § 222 obligations. The Commission has an opportunity (and, indeed the statutory directive) to regulate CPNI data collection practices of mobile carriers.

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Comments on Mobile Privacy

July 13, 2012

New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, Benton Foundation, Center for Media Justice, Chicago Media Action, Free Press, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Media Alliance, Peoples Production House, Public Knowledge, and The Peoples Channel & Durham Community Media submitted these comments in response to the Public Notice released by the Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, and Office of General Counsel “regarding the privacy and data-security practices of mobile wireless service providers with respect to customer

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PIPAC Opposition to National Association of Broadcasters' Petition for Stay Pending Judicial Review

  • By Media Policy Initiative
July 10, 2012

The Public Interest Public Airwaves Coalition (“PIPAC”) strongly opposes the National Association of Broadcasters (“NAB”) petition for stay pending judicial review of the Federal Communications Commission rule requiring that broadcast television stations post the contents of their public inspection files on a website to be maintained by the Commission. NAB has failed to meet any of the criteria necessary for a stay.

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