Please join MAP on Tuesday, February 7th, 9:30 am-12:30 pm at the Pew DC Conference Center for part two of MAP’s fifth annual Forum Series.
The entire series is free and open to the public. Continental breakfast will be available.
Please RSVP to Mera Szendro Bok at mera@mediaaccess.org
Ben Scott, Policy Advisor for Innovation at the Office [...]

As Media Access Project’s board chair, I take pride in MAP’s ongoing record of achievements in media and telecommunications policy.  This year has been a particularly productive one, as you will see below.   On behalf of the board and staff, I thank you for your role in helping to make [...]

November 3, 2011
For Immediate Release

Contact:
Andrew Jay Schwartzman
202 454-5681
andys@mediaaccess.org
Maura Corbett
202 525-4352
mcorbett@glenechogroup.com

MERGER OPPONENT CHALLENGES VERACITY OF AT&T/T-MOBILE COMMERCIALS
Media Access Project (MAP), a public interest law firm which has asked the Federal Communications Commission to block AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile, has called upon a Washington, DC television station to stop running AT&T commercials [...]

November 3, 2011
For Immediate Release

Contact: Andrew Jay Schwartzman
202.454.5681
andys@mediaaccess.org
Mera Szendro Bok
202.454.5685
mera@mediaaccess.org
Chrystiane Pereira
202.454.5683
cpereira@mediaaccess.org

MAP Brief Challenges Constitutionality of FCC Indecency Policies

WASHINGTON D.C. -Media Access Project today filed a brief with the Supreme Court of the United States asking that it affirm a lower court decision which found that the FCC’s policies with respect to allegedly [...]

Bloomberg News
AT&T Inc. provided the Federal Communications Commission with incomplete information about whether the proposed purchase of T-Mobile USA Inc. would lead to a net increase in U.S. jobs, the regulator said.
“AT&T to date has produced almost nothing in response” to a May 27 request about the potential for job creation [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Andrew Jay Schwartzman
202.454.5681
andys@mediaaccess.org
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of attorneys general from seven states, comprising one-third of the nation’s population, has joined the Department of Justice’s anti-trust suit seeking to block AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile. The attorneys general are from the states of California, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 27, 2011
Contact:
Andrew Jay Schwartzman
202-454-5681
andys@mediaaccess.org
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court of the United States today invalidated a California statute that prohibits the sale or rental of violent video games to minors, in a case entitled Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association.
Media Access Project (MAP) filed an amici curiae brief in the case on behalf [...]

By Peter Overby, National Public Radio
If you live in a political battleground state, you probably remember being bombarded last year by TV attack ads — including ads from Citizens for Strength and Security, Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, and other vaguely named entities.
Advocates of transparency in political campaigns are still looking for [...]

By Rahul Gaitonde, BroadbandBreakfast.com
The Media Access Project, a public interest law firm specializing in telecommunications matters, brought together leading industry experts Friday to explore issues surrounding potential spectrum auctions.
The goal of the proposed auctions is to free up spectrum for use by mobile broadband. The spectrum would come from that which [...]

[ March 11, 2011; 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. ] Friday, March 11, 2011
10:00 am – 2:00 pm (breakfast begins at 9:30 am)
Dickstein Shapiro Conference Center
1825 Eye Street, NW, Washington, DC.
The Federal Communications Commission is exploring whether to free up portions of radio frequency spectrum, currently licensed to television broadcasters, to expand spectrum availability for use by wireless broadband technologies. The Commission [...]