FCC Issues Rate Freeze for Phone Networks
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U.S. communications regulators on  Friday issued interim rules that would freeze for six months  wholesale rates for leasing access to the major U.S. local  telephone networks to try to preserve competition.
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U.S. regulators ruled Tuesday that providers of Internet-based phone call services fall under the jurisdiction of the federal government and cannot be regulated by states. -AP
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Agency gives phone companies more leeway in sharing connections. Also: Broadband over power lines gets green light.
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WASHINGTON: The Federal Communications Commission seized regulatory control over Internet-based telephone services on Tuesday by issuing an order that sharply limited the role of state regulators.
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WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission may consider limiting fees that phone and cable companies charge subscribers who cancel service before contracts expire.
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A broadband provider prevented customers from using its service, company says.
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Washington - Phone calls made over the Internet cannot be regulated by states, the Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday.
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AT&T Inc.'s EDGE data network suffered a partial disruption in the U.S. today, with users in some states saying they had no network access at all.
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Critics of new rates set to go into effect Sunday say the change spells doom for internet radio. Will Congress intercede?
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U.S. state and local governments could   lose $8 billion a year in revenue if Congress further restricts   their ability to tax telecommunications services, the National   League of Cities said on Wednesday.
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Verizon and Qwest have asked a federal court to force the FCC to drop its price freeze on the fees their competitors pay to connect to their regional networks.
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It was the second month in a row that the bank&#39;s Monetary Policy Committee has frozen the rate. The decision was widely expected following data that showed Britain&#39;s manufacturing sector slowing down and a cooling of the housing market.
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Cable television rates keep going up while prices for other communications services are going down, says the nation's chief communications regulator, and he blames local governments for blocking competition.
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A recent survey of 201 telecom decision managers working in government indicates that while there's quite a bit of interest in communications systems that unify voice, video and data over the Net, budgets and security constraints are likely to make that a very slow process.
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A U.S. appeals court on Thursday  gave the Federal Communications Commission time to come up with  new final rules for big local U.S. telephone carriers sharing  their networks with rivals after temporarily freezing wholesale  rates.
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Network carriers say U.S. users from companies and the government are experiencing Internet delays when connecting to India and the Mideast because of the re-routing of traffic across the Pacific Ocean after underwater cables were cut in the Mediterrranean.
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AT&T Corp. T.N  and Internet  telephone provider Vonage on Thursday said they were cutting  prices for their residential Internet calling services by $5  per month, the strongest signs yet of a price war in the  nascent market.