Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   FCC Phone Rules Off Target, Australian Firm Says - Telstra is trying to force the Federal Communications Commission to scrap an order slashing rates for international calls. The telco argues that the agency must address inequities in how US firms sell Internet capacity to foreign companies. [Wired News]   FCC Praises Ameritech Filing, Then Buries It - After complimenting the local phone company's effort to meet the spirit of the Telecom Act, regulators pointed to a few more hurdles it wants Ameritech to cross. [Wired News]   FCC Slashes International Phone Rates - In anticipation of the lowering of global barriers to telecom competition next year, the commission tells foreign companies that the amount they can charge will be reduced by as much as 80 percent. [Wired News]   FCC Studies Town's Attempt to Regulate Telcos - A 1995 law passed in Troy, Michigan, requires cable and phone companies to get a franchise license to operate there. The companies are screaming excessive regulation. [Wired News]   FCC Wants ATT to Pass Savings on to You - Long-distance companies want to keep jacking up phone rates, but the FCC says enough is enough. [Wired News]   FCC's Internet Paper: Who Will Make It So? - A new working paper on the Net is filled with talk about the need for regulatory restraint. Will anyone back up the FCC's talk? [Wired News]   FCC, Universal Service: Picard Meets Yogi Berra - The Federal Communications Commission continues its marathon effort to put the '96 Telecom Act into practice. Also, a capsule history of telecom reform. [Wired News]   FTC Gives Web Suckers an Even Break - The trade commission works out a settlement between a group of East Coast entrepreneurs and Web surfers they reconnected to Moldovan phone numbers. Also: Kennard promises active stance, and Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Novell) says Microsoft could "annihilate" competitors. [Wired News]   FTC Hosts Spam Roast - Although the king of junk email told the Federal Trade Commission that spam doesn't hurt anyone, a wave of negative testimony leads one member of the agency's board to call for prosecuting fraudulent junk email. [Wired News]   FTC Pushes for Net Marketing Boundaries - Online marketing practices "could jeopardize personal privacy and facilitate fraud and deception," a new study says. [Wired News]   FTC Scans Horizon for Scams - The head of the Federal Trade Commission's Internet committee says that although the agency's online anti-fraud efforts have borne some fruit, new challenges are appearing. [Wired News]   FTC Sticks with White House on Net Privacy - The commission tells Congress that it intends to follow Clinton's hands-off doctrine and let industry devise its own info privacy safeguards. Activists appeal to Congress to act. [Wired News]   FTC Takes Net Comment on Antitrust Case - The commission, acting after prodding by a host of Net activists, is taking comment via the Web for the first time as it tries to block the merger of Office Depot and Staples. [Wired News]   FTC Urged to Take Strong Stand on Privacy - Too much is known by too many people about too many people, privacy advocates warn, and a new set of voluntary guidelines from eight big consumer database companies does nothing to change that. Plus, tracking down deadbeat parents online. [Wired News]   Faceless Freedom on the Net - A conference on electronic anonymity focused on high principles. One entrepreneur's experience suggests that everyday realities are just as important in providing a needed service. [Wired News]   Farewell to .hk? Not So Fast - On the Richter scale of rumors, this one registers about 2.1. But the very notion that China will abolish Hong Kong's top-level domain name raises hackles. [Wired News]   Fears, Assurances Orbit Around Cassini Study - NASA takes a new look at the risks of launching a space probe carrying plutonium and concludes they are negligible. But critics see an opening in their fight to change the mission plan. [Wired News]   Feathers Fly on Bird Chat - Blocking software catches bird-lover using Latin! Jon Katz has all the shocking details. [Wired News]   Federal Anti-Spam Bill on the Way - New legislation will try to attack the problem by amending a law that bans junk faxes. The trick, an aide to the bill's sponsor says, is to avoid criminalizing innocuous behavior. [Wired News]   Federal District Judge in Georgia Takes 'Cyber Tour' - A judge gets a tour of the Internet, in a case challenging a state law barring anonymous communication online. [Wired News]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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