By Sara Jerome, The Hill

A coalition launched Tuesday to fight the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile.
The No Takeover Project is led by Sprint, the Rural Cellular Association, the New America Foundation, the Center for Media Justice, Public Knowledge, the Media Access Project and the Rural Telecommunications Group. The coalition could grow [...]

May 10, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Kamilla Kovacs
202.454.5685
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WASHINGTON – Microsoft today announced its intention to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion. Microsoft’s statements tout the benefits of the acquisition for individual and business users of real-time video and voice communications.
Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Senior Vice President and Policy Director of Media Access Project, issued the following statement in [...]

by Phil Goldstein, Fierce Wireless
WASHINGTON–Representatives from Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ), AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) and other large companies argued that mandating interoperability across different band classes of the 700 MHz band will be costly and difficult to achieve. On the other side, smaller carriers and consumer advocates argued that, without interoperability, subscribers of [...]

April 25, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Kamilla Kovacs
202.454.5685
press@mediaaccess.org
MEDIA ADVISORY
What: Matt Wood, Associate Director of Media Access Project, will present at a spectrum policy workshop organized by the Federal Communications Commission entitled “Interoperability of Customer Mobile Equipment Across Paired Commercial Spectrum Blocks in the 700 MHz Band.”
When: Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 9:00 a.m. [...]

AT&T’s controversial $39 billion bid for T-Mobile officially got under way Thursday, crystallizing a big risk and possibly a big opportunity for President Barack Obama.
The risk: allowing a deal that could, in time, leave Americans with just two choices for cellphone providers. The potential opportunity: extending high-speed wireless to virtually the entire [...]

AT&T Inc. (T) formally asked regulators today to approve its $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA Inc., saying the transaction to form the largest U.S. mobile phone company would benefit consumers.
The deal will help meet escalating demand for advanced wireless services and consumers will suffer fewer blocked calls, AT&T said in papers filed in Washington [...]

April 8, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Kamilla Kovacs
202.454.5685
press@mediaaccess.org
WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives today passed legislation that, if enacted, would reverse the Federal Communications Commission’s December 2010 network neutrality rules. The bill invokes procedures under the Congressional Review Act, a measure that permits Congress to overrule agency decisions.
The following statement can [...]

By Sara Forden and Todd Shields, Bloomberg
The Federal Communications Commission won dismissal of lawsuits in which Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) and MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) sought to overturn the agency’s rules for managing Web traffic.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today dismissed the cases after the FCC argued they were [...]

By Josh Smith, National Journal
In what may only be a speed bump in a longer legal battle, a D.C. court of appeals has thrown out Verizon’s challenge to the Federal Communications Commission’s recent net neutrality rules, saying the company filed the lawsuit prematurely.
Verizon launched the legal challenge before the rules, which were [...]

By Cecilia Kang, Washington Post

A federal appeals court threw out complaints by Verizon Communications and Metro PCS aimed at knocking down Internet access rules by the Federal Communications Commission, saying the lawsuits were filed too early.
But the decision, on a technicality, may be a short-lived victory for the FCC. [...]