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Gigi Sohn Statement on Release of FCC Order Approving T-Mobile-Sprint Merger

Today, the FCC released its order approving the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, with a handful of conditions, by a 3-2 party line vote. The following statement should be attributed to Gigi Sohn: The order confirms what we’ve known for months – Chairman Pai and the FCC majority would rather…

Posted on November 5, 2019November 5, 2019 by Gigi Sohn

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Gigi Sohn Statement on FCC Release of Broadband Deployment Report Notice of Inquiry

Today, the FCC released its 15th Broadband Deployment Report Notice of Inquiry, otherwise known as the Section 706 Notice of Inquiry. Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 requires the FCC to determine annually “whether advanced telecommunications capability is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion.” The…

Posted on October 23, 2019October 23, 2019 by Gigi Sohn

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The Verge: Will the Sprint and T-Mobile merger create competition? Interview with tech policy expert Gigi Sohn.

This week for our interview series on The Vergecast, host and Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to Gigi Sohn, a distinguished fellow at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law and Policy. We’ve had Gigi on the show before to talk about the ramifications following the repeal of net neutrality. This time, we brought her back…

Posted on October 22, 2019October 23, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Gigi Sohn Statement on FCC Approval of T-Mobile-Sprint Merger

By a 3-2 party line vote, the FCC approved the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint subject to a handful of mostly behavioral conditions. In late May, the Chairman and his two Republican colleagues announced their intention to approve the merger prior to the circulation of a draft order. The following…

Posted on October 16, 2019November 19, 2019 by Gigi Sohn

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C-SPAN: Communicators Roundtable on Internet Regulation Court Decision.

Gigi Sohn, (former FCC Chair Tom Wheeler’s adviser) & Patrick Halley (USTelecom Sr. VP of Advocacy & Regulatory Affairs) discussed ramifications of last week’s DC Appeals Court decision to uphold much, but not all, of a DC Federal Appeals Court ruling. Media at CSPAN.

Posted on October 8, 2019October 11, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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The Hill: Ex-FCC counselor calls for federal consumer privacy law

Consumer advocate Gigi Sohn is calling on the federal government to pass a comprehensive consumer privacy law, warning that lack of such a protection can lead to economic or even physical harm. “Every state has privacy laws but there isn’t a comprehensive consumer privacy law that particularly deals with online privacy,” Sohn,…

Posted on October 3, 2019October 4, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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The Hill: Obama-era FCC counsel rips Yang proposal to treat data as personal property

A former counselor to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman under President Obama on Thursday criticized Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang’s proposal to turn data into a property right, warning that such a move would lead to a deluge of lawsuits and create a "huge mess." “It’s impractical and I also…

Posted on October 3, 2019October 4, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Court Allows States to Continue to Protect Net Neutrality and Assert Authority over the Broadband Market

COURT ALLOWS STATES TO CONTINUE TO PROTECT NET NEUTRALITY AND ASSERT AUTHORITY OVER THE BROADBAND MARKET In a widely anticipated decision, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Mozilla v. FCC, today struck down the portion of the FCC’s 2017 net neutrality repeal order that…

Posted on October 1, 2019October 1, 2019 by Gigi Sohn

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Statement of Gigi Sohn on Broadcast Networks’ Lawsuit Against Locast

Today, the four major broadcast networks sued Locast, a not-for-profit service that streams free over-the-air broadcast TV signals to viewers at no charge, in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The following statement should be attributed to Gigi Sohn: Despite the fact that the law is…

Posted on July 31, 2019July 31, 2019 by Gigi Sohn

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NPR: New Maine Law Aims to Restore Internet Privacy Protection Rolled Back By Trump Administration

Lawmakers in Maine have passed a bill to restore internet privacy protections — protections that were rolled back by the Trump Administration and Congress. The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission are investigating big tech companies in part to learn what they do with users' data. California is…

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