News flash: Comcast won't promise to tie its cable rate increases to inflation. In response to questions about its plans to acquire control of NBC Universal, Comcast told Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) that it would not make such a commitment.

The need to move away from flat-rate, all-you-can-eat data pricing has become increasingly clear as data usage continues to proliferate amongst a disproportionate group of heavy users. While pay-per-use pricing may solve wireless operators' data constraints, consumers won't accept them.

Cablevision has agreed to pay $25,000 and inform its customers when it is delivering programming in a two-way, switched-digital-video format that can't be received by unidirectional equipment.

It's being called a 21st-century road map to power up economic growth. The FCC presented Congress with the nation's first broadband plan. The goal -- to make super- fast, affordable Internet connections available to every American over the next decade. The price tag: $20 billion. That's for building new broadband infrastructure.

For many, it's been years since they heard the whirs and beeps of dial-up internet. But around 100 million Americans still lack broadband at home. However, those number might be changing. A plan from the FCC includes goals of connectivity, affordability and leadership in the world market, all made possible through high-speed broadband.

Comcast won't limit cable rate hikes to the inflation rate as a condition of the company's proposed merger with NBC Universal. Cable rates that have risen twice as fast as the rate of inflation since the 1990s.

The FCC says that, in exchange for the right to use the airwaves we all own, a broadcaster must operate in the "public interest," airing "programming that is responsive to the needs and problems of its local community." Yet a new study shows that Los Angeles area news broadcast devote only 22 seconds per 30 minutes to local government coverage. Is it likely to get better?

There are a lot of very good things in the FCC's national broadband plan's 376 pages, including pledges to reform the Universal Service Fund and to re-allocate spectrum for broadband. But the plan glosses over some of thorniest problems plaguing U.S. Internet users: High prices, slow speeds and a lack of choices among providers.

Among the dozens of policy recommendations in the FCC's national broadband plan, the impact on consumers varies. The following are answers to some of the top questions about how the broadband manifesto affects individuals.

Communications regulators submitted to Congress a national broadband plan that aims to expand access, increase Internet speeds and shift airwaves to mobile services. The five members of the FCC unanimously approved a summary of the plan that will need action by Congress, the commission and the communications industry to become reality.