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Latest News in Telecommunications

  • August 25, 2026

    4th Circ. Blocks FCC Campaign Ad Pricing Guidance

    While political candidates are entitled to the lowest advertising rate radio and television stations can charge, political parties and joint fundraising committees with noncandidate members are not, a split Fourth Circuit ruled Tuesday, wiping out recent Federal Communications Commission guidance.

  • August 25, 2026

    Meta Should Keep Research Internal, Data Whiz Tells Jury

    A high-ranking Meta data analyst told a Tennessee jury Tuesday that the social media giant shouldn't release its user research publicly because he saw during a famous leak the danger that such research will be "misinterpreted and misrepresented."

  • August 25, 2026

    DC Circ. Won't Revive Standard General's FCC Bias Suit

    The D.C. Circuit does not believe that the Federal Communications Commission took part in a racist conspiracy to kill Standard General hedge fund manager Soo Kim's $8.6 billion merger with broadcaster Tegna and has affirmed the dismissal of his lawsuit claiming such.

  • August 25, 2026

    Feds Seek Dismissal of Tribe's Burial Site Construction Claims

    The U.S. Department of Commerce is looking to exit a Lummi Nation lawsuit claiming broadband construction disturbed ancestral remains, saying a Washington federal court lacks jurisdiction over the Native American tribe's suit because the department has not yet taken any final agency action.

  • August 25, 2026

    Bid For FCC Preemption 'Dead On Arrival,' Minn. City Says

    A Minneapolis suburb called on the Federal Communications Commission to reject a broadband provider's request for FCC preemption in a local franchise dispute because of court rulings declaring that broadband does not qualify as a telecommunications service.

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