Ajit Pai
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The United States Senate has voted by a large majority to confirm Jessica Rosenworcel as chair of the Federal Communications Commission for the next five years. -
Jessica Rosenworcel’s first task after her official nomination as chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been to implement a Trump-era policy to ban China Telecom from the US.
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Broadband operators in the US paid research companies to generate 18 million fake emails to the telecoms regulator and half a million fake letters to Congress, the New York attorney general is claiming.
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The private-equity shareholder in companies such as Bezeq, Liberty Latin America, Mitel and Rackspace has hired Ajit Pai as a partner.
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President Joe Biden has confirmed Jessica Rosenworcel as the person who will chair the US telecoms regulator.
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Ajit Pai left the US telecoms regulator yesterday with a final short at what he called potential Chinese espionage and threats to networks.
Forthcoming events
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Geoffrey Starks, a commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has been backed by a racial justice group for the role of chairman of the FCC.
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Hopes that the incoming US administration will reverse Donald Trump’s strategy on China faded last night when the two Democrats on the US regulator approved moves against China Telecom and Huawei.
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Satellite company SpaceX, at least three fixed-wireless companies, an electricity company and a large number of telcos are among the biggest victors from yesterday’s US government $9.2 billion hand-out to rural broadband companies.
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Ajit Pai is to leave the US telecoms and media regulator, which he has chaired since 2017, on the day Joe Biden replaces Donald Trump as president.
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US president-elect Joe Biden has appointed Mignon Clyburn, a former acting chair of the US regulator, to his telecoms transition team.
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Ajit Pai, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has declared a “massive victory” as the US Court of Appeals upheld three proposed orders from the FCC to fast-track 5G in the United States.
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The US has officially declared Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE as national security threats, a move that bans them from supplying rural US carriers via the universal service fund.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reached a $5 million settlement with voice over Internet provider (VoIP) magicJack.
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There were 2,416,135 cases of people infected with Covid-19 and 165,939 dead, as of 20 April, 12:35 (BST).
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The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Chairman (FCC), Ajit Pai, has unveiled a multi-million-dollar scheme to support the US health sector to procure the necessary infrastructure to deliver services during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has completed auction 103, which has made 3,400MHz of millimetre wave spectrum available in the upper 37GHz, 39GHz and 47GHz bands.
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The US Senate has voted to pass the Secure and Trusted Telecommunications Act that will prohibit the use of federal funds to buy equipment “untrusted suppliers”.
