Resource Library

A collection of research reports, white papers, FCC filings, activist tools and much more.

  • Consumer groups, including Free Press, filed this Reply to Opposition to Petition For Reconsideration. The filing rebuts arguments made by phone and cable companies claiming the groups' petition to the agency was not valid.

  • Commissioned by the FCC, the Mitre Report found that increasing the number of LPFM stations would not interfere with full-power stations.

  • Letter by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) re. the impact on minority ownership of the FCC's vote to lift the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rule.

  • Law professors Jack Balkin and Barbara Van Schewick wrote this letter to the FCC regarding Comcast's interference with peer-to-peer applications.

  • Despite overwhelming public opposition from across the country and the political spectrum, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin isn’t letting up in his relentless push to let a small handful of big media corporations swallow up even more local outlets.

  • U.S. Senators Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) introduced S. 215, the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, to ensure that broadband service providers do not discriminate against Internet content, applications or services by offering preferential treatment.

  • In these August 2008 reply comments to the FCC, consumer groups, led by Free Press, discuss the agency's intended collection of improved broadband availability data.

  • In this policy brief, Free Press demonstrates why the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to prohibit blocking by Internet service providers is unlikely to lead to a radical, industry-wide switch to metering.

  • In this July 2008 filing with the FCC, Free Press General Counsel Marvin Ammori corrects inaccuracies found in ex parte documents submitted to the agency by the cable industry.

  • This letter by Free Press General Counsel Marin Ammori to the FCC is a short reaction to Comcast's two ex parte filings submitted on July 10, 2008.

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