Media Access Project, New America Foundation, Free Press, and Public Knowledge today filed an opposition to documents submitted to the Federal Communications Commission by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association regarding the FCC’s transparency requirements for white space spectrum databases.
The groups asked the FCC to ignore NCTA’s request for more limited data collection and transparency [...]

February 22, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Kamilla Kovacs
202.454.5685
press@mediaaccess.org
WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, Free Press, Media Access Project, Media Mobilizing Project, Access Humboldt and Mountain Area Information Network filed motions to intervene in the Verizon and MetroPCS appeals of the Federal Communications Commission’s open Internet order.
Free Press, representing itself in the matter, believes that the FCC’s order failed [...]

Media Access Project submitted an ex parte document with the Federal Communications Commission today, urging the agency to adopt a requirement that Universal Service Fund recipients comply with any network neutrality rules that the Commission might adopt.
Read the ex parte here.

Public Knowledge, Media Access Project, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Open Technology Initiative of the New America Foundation filed a Brief Amici Curiae with the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, in support of ivi Inc.’s fight under the Copyright Law of the United States to retransmit online the signals of over-the-air television [...]

January 11, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Kamilla Kovacs
202.454.5685
press@mediaaccess.org
WASHINGTON – Media Access Project (MAP) and a group of public interest organizations today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, urging the agency to implement stronger rules to protect innovation and consumer choice for wireless customers. The letter follows the introduction [...]

January 10, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Kamilla Kovacs
202.454.5685
press@mediaaccess.org
WASHINGTON – Media Access Project (MAP), together with other leading public interest and consumer advocacy groups, filed joint comments today in the FCC’s “bill shock” proceeding. The FCC’s proposed rules would require wireless carriers to provide more detailed and timely usage alerts and other information to their customers, to [...]

Letter Identifies Five Key Problems with FCC Proposal that Must Be Fixed
WASHINGTON — More than 80 grassroots organizations, consumer groups, civil rights organizations, innovative businesses, technology experts and public interest advocates filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission on Friday, signaling broad support for strong Network Neutrality rules. The letter highlighted five key areas [...]

Media Access Project, the Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown University, the Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ, Inc. (“UCC”), Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, and Free Press wrote a letter to the FCC today, urging Commissioners to engage in prompt action on the long-pending matter of the renewal of the licenses of two television [...]

Update: Read letter to the Federal Communications Commission by MAP, Free Press, New America Foundation, and Public Knowledge on this issue, filed on November 30, 2010.
For Immediate Release:
November 29, 2010
Earlier today, modem manufacturer Zoom Telephonics filed a complaint at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) against Comcast, setting out a string of facts which [...]

WASHINGTON — Media Access Project (MAP) sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski today, complaining that Fox’s failure to comply with FCC ownership rules is giving it an unfair advantage in its dispute with Cablevision over TV program carriage in the New York market.
Fox has failed to comply with [...]