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”.
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Intelsat has responded to comments by the by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Ajit Pai about C-band spectrum.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has authorised almost $89.2 million in funding over the next ten years to expand broadband to rural homes and businesses.
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Ajit Pai (pictured), chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has announced plans to establish the 5G Fund, a $9 billion Universal Service Fund available to carriers to deploy 5G mobile wireless services in rural America.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has authorised $166.8 million in funding for the expansion of broadband to 60,850 rural homes and businesses in 22 states.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has denied China Mobile USA’s application to provide telecoms services between the US and other international locations.
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“By the end of 2019, the United States will have 92 5G deployments in markets nationwide.” These are the bold claims made by President Donald Trump at a White House event on 5G deployment in April 2019.
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Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has publically opposed granting China Mobile’s application to offer telecoms services in the US.
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Three US Senators have accused four US mobile carriers of slowing down online traffic and effectively ‘throttling’ video services.
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New York’s attorney general is leading a legal attack on President Donald Trump’s ban on net neutrality, saying it is “arbitrary and capricious” and that it will have a “devastating impact on millions of Americans”.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has established the applications and bidding procedures for its upcoming Spectrum Frontiers auctions.
