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FILE - In this April 2, 2019, file photo, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, speaks during a hearing with Energy Secretary Rick Perry on the President's budget request for Fiscal Year 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Federal Communications Commission's broadband report is being hammered by critics who say it paints too rosy a picture of high-speed internet availability in the U.S. Manchin joined two dissenting FCC commissioners in criticizing the report released Wednesday, May 29. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Critics say FCC report overstates broadband availability

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 12, 2019 file photo, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai speaks during an event with President Donald Trump on the deployment of 5G technology in the United States, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, in Washington. Pai says he plans to recommend the agency approve the $26.5 billion merger of wireless carriers T-Mobile and Sprint, saying it’ll speed up 5G deployment in the U.S. Pai also said Monday, May 20 that the combination will help bring faster mobile broadband to rural Americans. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Weighing the Sprint, T-Mobile merger

By Gerard Scimeca

Miss Piggy and friends used sexual innuendo and drug and alcohol references in a reboot of “The Muppets” with a family-friendly rating. (Associated Press)

TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board rife with inaccurate grading, FCC report reveals

By Christopher Vondracek - The Washington Times

This undated photo provided by Amy Martin shows Ophelia Watahomigie-Corliss, a member of the Havasupai Tribal Council, at Red Butte, a site that the Havasupai consider sacred about 15 miles south of Tusayan, Ariz. Native American tribes are pushing the federal government to give them priority when it issues licenses that could expand internet coverage in their communities. Tribes in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Washington, Idaho and others in Arizona also are pressing the FCC for a priority filing window. On the Havasupai Tribal Council, Watahomigie-Corliss is dubbed the telecommunications member. (Amy Martin via AP)

Havasupai secures license to retain, expand internet access

By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 4, 2018, file photo a man talks on the phone in a hallway adorned with the palm tree-printed wallpaper at a hotel near the Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles. U.S. regulators are proposing new measures intended to thwart billions of annoying robocalls received by Americans each year. The rising volume of unwanted calls in the last few years has created pressure on Congress, regulators and phone companies to do something to act. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Help coming on blocking scam calls for robocall-plagued US

By TALI ARBEL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2017 file photo, personnel from Liberty Cable work to restore fiber optic lines on the third day after the impact of Maria, a Category 5 hurricane that crossed the island, in Carolina, Puerto Rico. A report issued Tuesday, May 13, 019, by the group Free Press, a consumer activist group, is calling on the U.S. government to investigate the collapse of communications in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria to avoid a repeat of the situation as the island prepares for another storm season. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti, File)

Report calls on FCC to probe storm aftermath in Puerto Rico

By DÁNICA COTO - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by Amy Martin shows Ophelia Watahomigie-Corliss, a member of the Havasupai Tribal Council, at Red Butte, a site that the Havasupai consider sacred about 15 miles south of Tusayan, Ariz. Native American tribes are pushing the federal government to give them priority when it issues licenses that could expand internet coverage in their communities. Tribes in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Washington, Idaho and others in Arizona also are pressing the FCC for a priority filing window. On the Havasupai Tribal Council, Watahomigie-Corliss is dubbed the telecommunications member. (Amy Martin via AP)

Tribes across country push for better internet access

By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press

In this Friday, April 5, 2019, photo, Kelly Povroznik grabs a few carrots from inside her storage space to give to her horses in their pasture outside of Clarksburg, W.Va. Povroznik teaches an online college course that has been hampered by slow connections on her computer and phone. There is widespread agreement that expanding broadband internet in rural America is desperately needed. (AP Photo/Craig Hudson)

With billions to spend, feds unsure who lacks broadband

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE - Associated Press

Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., center, accompanied by then-Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., left, and Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., right, speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 16, 2018, after the Senate passed a resolution to reverse the FCC decision to end net neutrality. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

House votes to bring back Obama-era ‘net neutrality’ rules

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Workers are seen at the construction of a cellular telephone antenna tower in Lakewood, N.J.,Wednesday, July 16, 2008, (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

FCC rules on 5G cellphone upgrade spark antenna fight

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, file photo, a person with a smartphone enters the Federal Communications Commission building in Washington. Tech companies and nearly two dozen U.S. states clashed with the government in federal court Friday, Feb. 1, 2019, over the repeal of net neutrality, a set of Obama-era rules aimed at preventing big internet providers from discriminating against certain technology and services. The action rolling back the neutrality rules &quot;is a stab in the heart of the Communications Act,&quot; said attorney Pantelis Michalopoulos, referring to the Depression-era law that established the FCC. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Tech companies, states spar with govt over net neutrality

By MARCY GORDON and TALI ARBEL - Associated Press

FILE- In this Oc. 29, 2014, file photo honoree Perry Sook, Chairman, President and CEO of Nexstar Broadcasting Group, attends the 24th Annual Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame Awards at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. Nexstar is offering to buy Chicago’s Tribune Media for about $4 billion, four months after the collapse of a similar bid from Sinclair Broadcast Group. The offer Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, would make Nexstar, whose stations reach nearly 39 percent of all U.S. television households, the biggest operator of local TV stations in the U.S. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Nexstar offers just over $4B for Tribune Media

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USDA’s rural broadband plan met with criticism, concerns

By CHRISTOPHER WALLJASPER of Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting. - Associated Press

Telecom official crisscrosses Vermont to check cell coverage

By JOHN LIPPMAN - Associated Press

Space company plans first Kodiak launch

Associated Press

Cutting Off Veterans' Phone Program Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Changes to the Lifeline program could hurt veterans most

By James Fisher and Keith David

More than 100,000 rally in support of Congo ruling coalition

Associated Press

In this Oct. 13, 2005, photo Jeffrey Ansted, founder of American Broadband and Telecommunications, poses for a photo. The Federal Communications Commission accused Toledo-based American Broadband and Telecommunications Co. of creating fake accounts by using the identities of dead people and manipulating the information from existing customers to get government reimbursements. The company's founder, Ansted, used the money to buy country club memberships, a Ferrari convertible, a Florida condominium and an $8 million Cessna jet, the FCC said. (Andy Morrison/The Blade via AP)

FCC: Company created fake accounts, misused funds to buy jet

By JOHN SEEWER - Associated Press

FCC proposes $37.5M fine vs Tucson company for spoofed calls

Associated Press

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai speaks with Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., as the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation holds an oversight hearing on the Federal Communications Commission, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai calls for more transparency, not regulation of major tech companies

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times