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Comments on Wireless Service Interruptions

  • By Open Technology Institute, Public Knowledge, Center for Democracy and Technology, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Benton Foundation, Free Press, Minority Media and Telecommunications Council, National Hispanic Media Coalition
May 9, 2012
Public Knowledge, the Center for Democracy & Technology, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, 
the Benton Foundation, Free Press, the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council, the 
National Hispanic Media Coalition, and the Open Technology Institute at the New America 
Foundation appreciate the opportunity to submit this joint response to the Federal 
Communications Commission's Public Notice of March 1, 2012, seeking comments on certain 
wireless service interruptions.
 
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Spectrum 101

May 3, 2012

Michael Calabrese, the Director of the Wireless Future Project at the Open Technology Institute, delivered this "Spectrum 101" presentation as part of a panel at Spectrum for Democracy: Securing the Gains from the Arab Spring on May 3, 2012. The presentation explains some of the technical basics of spectrum, as well as issues of regulation, scarcity, interference, and license-exempt use.

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Testimony Before the Committee on Government Operations, Council of the District of Columbia Regarding Budget Oversight: OCTO

April 25, 2012

Testimony before
The Committee on Government Operations, Council of the District of Columbia
regarding
Budget Oversight: OCTO
by
Joshua Breitbart, Director of Field Operations,
New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative
April 18, 2012

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Comments on Lifeline Link Up FNPRM

April 2, 2012

New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative and Access Humboldt (“Commenters”) recognize the tremendous importance of digital literacy training as means of increasing meaningful broadband adoption, particularly for low-income communities. Commenters therefore applaud the Commission’s efforts to incorporate a digital literacy training component into the Universal Service Fund. Nonetheless, we have concerns about how the proposed program may be developed and administered.

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Comments on Standardized Program Reporting Requirements for Broadcast Licensees

  • and Angela J. Campbell and Laura M. Moy, Institute for Public Representation
February 13, 2012

Contrary to the claims of some broadcasters, adoption of the standardized reporting form proposed by PIPAC would not raise any First Amendment concerns. Broadcasters’ concerns are based on a false belief that the mere fact of reporting requires stations to air certain types of programming. The Commission has made clear that the proposed reporting requirement is not intended to require any particular programming and would not alter broadcasters’ existing public interest requirements.

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Comments in the Matter of Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies

February 10, 2012
In response to the Notic
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Comments on Standardized Program Reporting Requirements for Broadcast Licensees

  • and Angela J. Campbell and Laura Moy, Institute for Public Representation
January 27, 2012

The Public Interest Public Airwaves Coalition (PIPAC) strongly supports the Commission’s proposal to replace the requirement that television broadcasters file quarterly issues/programs (I/P) lists with a streamlined, standardized disclosure form and to create and host a database to store the information in machine readable and structured formats so that the data is accessible to the public.

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Comments on Standardized Program Reporting Requirements for Broadcast Licensees

  • and Public Interest Public Airwaves Coalition
January 23, 2012

The Public Interest Public Airwaves Coalition (the “Coalition”) respectfully submits the following Paperwork Reduction Act comments in response to the Federal Communications Commission Order on Reconsideration and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. The Coalition supports the Commission’s decision to move forward with this important proceeding and for the commitment to bring broadcast disclosure in to the modern age by creating an integrated public file to be hosted online by the Commission.

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Comments on Television Broadcasting and Public File Modernization Policies

  • and Public Interest Public Airwaves Coalition
January 17, 2012

The Public Interest Public Airwaves Coalition (the “Coalition”) respectfully submits the following reply comments in response to the Federal Communications Commission Order on Reconsideration and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.

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Comments on Television Broadcasting and Public File Modernization Policies

  • and Public Interest Public Airwaves Coalition
December 22, 2011

The Public Interest Public Airwaves Coalition (the “Coalition”) respectfully submits the following comments in response to the Federal Communications Commission Order on Reconsideration and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. The Coalition supports the Commission decision to move forward with this important proceeding and for the commitment to bring broadcast disclosure in to the 21st century by creating an integrated public file to be hosted online by the Commission.

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