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The Federal Communications Commission is debating instituting significant policy changes that Height Securities expects to positively shake the communications sector. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai recently announced proposed amendments to calculate national television market share accounting for new...

Energous Corp (NASDAQ: WATT) stocks spiked 7.5 percent Tuesday seemingly on news that the Federal Communications Commission’s Office of Engineering and Technology posted an exhibits list for the company’s NF-130 wireless charger and receiver. Traders appear to have interpreted the move...

The U.S. Senate voted 50–48 Thursday to repeal web privacy rules that prevent broadband service providers and telecommunications carriers from selling customer data without consent. Repealing Privacy The measure required companies such as Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA), Verizon...

Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX) and AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) are expected to gain regulatory approval and finalize their merger by the end of the year — but that doesn’t necessarily bode well for Time Warner investors. Viewing little potential upside and balanced risk-reward in light of the...

President Donald Trump's appointment of Ajit Pai as head of the Federal Communications Commission is prompting many experts to believe that the agency will change the television station cap rule in the United States. Backdrop The FCC has a cap on TV and radio stations a single entity can own....

One of the more pressing and controversial topics of the past few years appears to be front and center in 2017: net neutrality. Net neutrality is the principle that companies who provide internet service should provide customers with equal and consistent access to all content and applications...

President Donald Trump has named Ajit Pai as the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Pai, a FCC commissioner, has been elevated to the top position at the commission following the resignation of Tom Wheeler last month. In a statement acknowledging the offer, Pai said he looks...

Straight Path Communications Inc (NYSE: STRP) is going through the roof on Thursday. The stock is currently at its highest level in over 15 months on unusually heavy volumes (roughly 11 times average volume). Reason Behind The Spike Straight Path announced that it has entered into a...

Shares of Straight Path Communications Inc (NYSE: STRP) soared higher by more than 60 percent Thursday morning after the company announced it reached a settlement with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Straight Path Communications, one of the largest holders of flexible mobile and...

The mega merger between Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX) and AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) now has to clear some hurdles before the union can be declared effective. Given that the deal has to receive the blessings of the shareholders of Time Warner and pertinent regulatory agencies and possibly the...

Globalstar, Inc. (NYSE: GSAT) shares are up 6.3 percent on Friday after the company reported that the Federal Communications Commission has adopted a Report and Order based on Globalstar’s recently-submitted revised proposal to use satellite signal frequencies to distribute its mobile...

Text messages from Donald Trump? You could soon be receiving them starting January 20. President Trump will be able to send unblockable mass text messages to the entire nation, according to the WARN Act that passed in 2006. The WARN act allows for targeted messages to be sent to every cell...

Sprint Corp (NYSE: S) stock has had quite the month. The wireless carrier’s stock price has shot up 27 percent since Election Day on November 8 due to speculation that a Trump administration will be more lenient regarding a potential merger between the company and T-Mobile US Inc (NASDAQ:...

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) has recently been pulled up by the Federal Communication Commission for allowing its mobility customers, who also subscribe to DIRECTV's satellite TV service, to stream content through the DIRECTVApp on a zero-rated basis. Zero-rated service would mean the usage of data...