Nadia Dreid

Dish Network says the private entity that administers many of the FCC's subsidy programs is trying to "shirk its own responsibilities to verify eligibility" for those programs and force telecoms to return millions of dollars they used to provide service to people previously deemed eligible.

Dish Network says the private entity that administers many of the FCC's subsidy programs is trying to "shirk its own responsibilities to verify eligibility" for those programs and force telecoms to return millions of dollars they used to provide service to people previously deemed eligible.

The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee had a productive morning Tuesday, consolidating 28 bills largely related to broadband permitting into seven and passing them along to the full committee for review.

Verizon is hoping that the court of last resort will take up its case challenging the $46.9 million fine that the Federal Communications Commission slapped it with after the company was found to have been selling off people's location data and the Second Circuit ruled the fine would stay in place.

The FBI, the U.S. Department of Justice and D.C. federal prosecutors have teamed up to launch a task force that will focus on cryptocurrency scams the government says originate from criminal networks in Southeast Asia and bilk millions out of their digital currency each year.

Mobile device users have come to terms with data analytics provider Kochava to end their claims that the company had been selling their geolocation data without proper consent after nearly three years of litigation.

Fired Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter has argued that in taking up her appeal over President Donald Trump's decision to remove her before her term was up, the U.S. Supreme Court is really mulling whether it has "gotten it wrong for the last 90 years."

Attorneys general from more than a dozen states have asked to pitch their two cents in to a suit brought earlier this year against Zoominfo that accused the data broker of illegally posting people's phone numbers in violation of Colorado law. 

SpaceX's plan to buy $17 billion in spectrum shouldn't be approved until the FCC looks into Elon Musk's "deep reliance" on the Chinese Communist Party for financing his space exploration company's operations and manufacturing its equipment, a consumer group says.

SpaceX's plan to buy $17 billion in spectrum shouldn't be approved until the FCC looks into Elon Musk's "deep reliance" on the Chinese Communist Party for financing his space exploration company's operations and manufacturing its equipment, a consumer group says.