Ajit Pai, the current chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, announced that he'll be stepping down from his role on January 20, the day that the next president of the U.S. is sworn in.
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California has reinstated the net-neutrality regulations that were recently scrapped by the Ajit Pai-led FCC. In retaliation to this state-level legislation, the Trump administration is suing.
The Federal Communications Commission is considering a change in its operating procedures that would allow the agency to ignore all informal complaints, unless accompanied by a hefty $255 fee.
A 33-year-old man from California has been arrested due to intimidating e-mails sent to FCC chairman Ajit Pai which threatened his family's lives following the vote to repeal net neutrality rules.
The United States Senate today voted in favour of overruling an FCC order repealing net neutrality protections in a 52-47 vote. A vote by the House and presidential consent are still needed.
The FCC's decision to kill net neutrality in December has finally appeared in the Federal Register today, meaning that the ruling will go into effect in 60 days, unless Congress does something.
The FCC's repeal of net neutrality is still more than 60 days away, which has given Senators seeking to overturn the ruling time to gather enough co-sponsors on a bill to force a full Senate vote.
After the controversy surrounding the repeal of net neutrality, the FCC has issued its final order "Restoring Internet Freedom." Along with the order come the official opinions of the commissioners.
The FCC chairman has come under fire for his push to repeal net neutrality. He was supposed to be at CES to talk about agency policymaking, but abruptly canceled less than a week before the event.
Weeks after the controversial ruling that repealed the Title II classification of ISPs as utilities, the final version of the order still has not been submitted and is likely still undergoing changes.
We knew there was a problem with bogus comments in favor of net neutrality, but the perpetrators had an odd sense of irony. The ex-president's name was used along with his old White House address.
If you had to work or were busy this morning, you missed a pretty interesting debate on the pros and cons of net neutrality, which ended in a 3-2 vote repealing the Title II provision. Watch it now.
Today's repeal of net neutrality by the FCC was not a real shocker. Neither is the response, which has consumer groups and politicians rushing to the aid of the beleaguered Title II provision.
Several internet personalities have signed an open letter to two subcommittees asking members to tell Ajit Pai to halt a vote which could see net neutrality vanish in the United States.
FCC chairman Ajit Pai has made it clear that he doesn't think much about feedback on net neutrality. The agency still will vote on a repeal on December 14, despite pleas from supporters for a delay.
While opponents of net neutrality are in favor of less government regulation of business, these same businesses - aka ISPs - have not demonstrated the necessary restraint to regulate themselves.
Anyone who uses the internet should be paying attention to this. The FCC is planning to roll back Obama-era rules that treated service providers as utilities, making the internet available to all.
The Federal Communications Commission has reopened the debate on net neutrality by voting in favor of reconsidering the Title II classification for ISPs. The proposal was by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.
The FCC will vote on a proposal to reverse the Title II classification for broadband on May 18, after which it will be open for public comment. A final vote will take place later this year.
As he sees it, the FCC's Ajit Pai has made a decision in the interests of the American people as well as aircrews to quash the proposal that would have allowed cell phone calls during flights.