Reassessing Turner and litigating the must-carry law beyond a facial challenge.
I. INTRODUCTION II. MUST-CARRY'S PURPOSE A. Cable Becomes a Threat to Broadcasting B. FCC. Attempts to Protect Local Broadcasting from Cable C. Objections to the Must-Carry Provisions D. Road to the Modern Must-Carry Law: Century Communications and the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 1. The...

Direct marketing, mobile phones, and consumer privacy: ensuring adequate disclosure and consent mechanisms for emerging mobile advertising practices.
I. INTRODUCTION II. MOBILE COMMERCE AND MOBILE ADVERTISING III. M-ADVERTISING RAISES PRIVACY CONCERNS FOR CONSUMERS IV. PRIVACY REGULATION AND MOBILE ADVERTISING V. FEDERAL PRIVACY REGULATION AND M-ADVERTISING A. Breach of Privacy Policies as Unfair Trade Practices B. Spamming as an Unfair Trade Practice 1. "Opt-out" Consent is the Minimum...

Chain versus independent television station ownership: toward an investment model of commitment to local news quality.
In June 2003 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-2 to relax ownership restrictions of broadcast and print media, allowing a single company or individual to own up to three television stations, eight radio stations, one daily newspaper, and one cable operation in the largest media markets. Further, the...

Responses by the Federal Communications Commission to WorldCom's accounting fraud.
WorldCom's disclosure of billions of dollars of financial fraud on June 25, 2002 challenged the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") in several major ways. The FCC proclaimed its commitment to enforce its rules to protect consumers against service discontinuance as well as the priority of rooting out corporate fraud. The...

Municipal broadband: challenges and perspectives.
I. INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY II. BROADBAND DEMAND III. POSSIBLE JUSTIFICATIONS FOR MUNICIPAL BROADBAND IV. SPEED, FEATURE, AND PRICE CONSIDERATIONS V. MUNICIPAL BROADBAND STATUS A. Municipal Broadband Deployment B. State and Federal Legislation C. Nixon v. Missouri Municipal League VI. LEVEL PLAYING FIELD AND TECHNICAL ISSUES VII. MUNICIPAL BROADBAND REGULATORY...

Traditional paradigms for new services? The Commission proposal for a 'Audiovisual Media Services Directive'.
Abstract: For over 10 years the European Community has strived to develop suitable and proportionate answers to the phenomenon of convergence in its audiovisual regulatory policy. This article outlines the regulatory process at an EU level since the early 1980s as far as media, telecommunications and Information Society services...

Television as something special? Content control technologies and free-to-air TV.
[Many areas of digital communication, including digital television, raise concerns about unauthorised reuse of content. Proposals exist in the United States and Europe for applying content control technologies to free-to-air digital television to limit the reuse of broadcast content. These proposals have implications for regulatory options, and for the...

Tecnologias PLC/BPL en Mexico y sus retos para las regulaciones: ¿existen oportunidades de desarrollo? (1).
Las telecomunicaciones se han abierto a la existencia de múltiples tecnologías. Unas son las comunicaciones por cable eléctrico, o PLC/BPL. Las comunicaciones por las redes eléctricas, con cobertura mayor que las de telecomunicaciones en zonas tradicionalmente no económicas, podrían reducir la brecha digital en países en desarrollo, pero presentan...

Private eyes are watching you: with the implementation of the E-911 mandate, who will watch every move you make?
The FCC's E-911 mandate, which will ensure that emergency operators automatically receive a caller's location information, should help save lives. However, privacy advocates have expressed concern over the potential for wireless carriers, the government, and third parties to collect and store personal information. Congress has addressed these concerns with...

Anglo-American privacy and surveillance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. SURVEILLANCE AND THE LAW 1N THE UNITED STATES A. REASONABLE EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY B. NATIONAL SECURITY AND SURVEILLANCE 1. The Red Scare 2. Title III 3. Executive Excess a. NSA: Operation SHAMROCK and MINARET b. FBI: COINTELPRO and the Security Index/ADEX. c. CIA: Operation...