WASHINGTON -- At the first meeting of the Federal Communications Commission under Julius Genachowski, the new chairman pledged a "process for public participation that will be unparalleled for this agency" in crafting a national broadband strategy.

A planned Washington Post "salon" offering lobbyists "off-the-record, non-confrontational" access to the paper's own reporters and editors for upwards of $25,000 would have been an outrageous violation of journalistic standards. While journalism is in crisis around the country, the future of our newsrooms is not in selling access to reporters and contacts to the highest bidder.

Because iPhones are married to AT&T, frustrated users can't abandon the telecom company for another, more savvy, carrier. So much for innovation. So much for consumer choice.

WASHINGTON – The National Telecommunications Information Administration, along with the Rural Utilities Service, today unveiled grant guidelines for the $7.2 billion allocated for broadband deployment in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama in February.

WASHINGTON -- Today, the Senate confirmed Julius Genachowski as the new chair of the Federal Communications Commission.