“What a difference a year makes,” FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said to a packed room during his speech at the NAB Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday. That quip garnered applause and chuckles from the broadcaster-heavy audience who seemed quite pleased to hear a review of Pai’s differing regulatory philosophy as opposed to that of former Chairman…

On Thursday, the FCC announced the closing of the broadcast incentive auction, and revealed that some of the largest winners were T-Mobile, Dish, Comcast, and US Cellular. At $19.8 billion in gross revenue for 70 MHz of spectrum, the incentive auction is among the highest grossing auctions conducted by the FCC, according to a statement…

President Trump signed a bill into law Monday tossing out the FCC’s controversial broadband privacy rules, which would have required ISPs to obtain customers’ consent in order to use and share their personal information. Both the Senate and the House moved the measure forward via the Congressional Review Act in the last couple weeks, and the…

On Wednesday, the FCC voted 2-1 along party lines to issue a temporary stay of a data security regulation just a day ahead of when the rules were slated to go into effect. Many broadband industry trade groups have been critical of the regulation, and argued that it would subject internet service providers (ISPs) to…

AT&T and Colt Technology Services revealed trial results of a standard application programming interface (API) infrastructure that lets software-defined networking (SDN) architectures from different network service providers interoperate. The test occurred between two networks in the United States and Europe, and the proof of concept reportedly revealed that users could reserve ports, order a point-to-point…