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WASHINGTON — The public interest group Free Press commends Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) for his efforts to marshal public resources for improvements to broadband that will benefit consumers.

WASHINGTON — Today at its December open meeting, the Federal Communications Commission heard an update on the progress of the National Broadband Plan. Promoting competition was a promised theme of the plan.

WASHINGTON — Free Press today released Making the National Broadband Plan Work for America, a public interest guide that lays out the central questions that must be answered by the Federal Communications Commission in its efforts to build a National Broadband Plan for America.

WASHINGTON — Comcast Corp. announced on Tuesday the launch of “TV Everywhere,” an online video service that is available only to Comcast cable subscribers. The new business model poses a serious threat to online video competition.

Washington, DC — Today, AT&T sent a letter to the FCC outlining their new approach to Net Neutrality rules. Free Press Policy Director Ben Scott made the following statement:

WASHINGTON — High early termination fees are a major barrier to consumer choice in the mobile phone marketplace and are preventing millions of consumers who want a new carrier from making the switch, according to a new report released on Thursday by the Government Accountability Office.

WASHINGTON — C. Edwin Baker, a prominent communications law scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, defender of the First Amendment, and advocate for media and democracy, died Dec. 8. He was 62.

WASHINGTON — Free Press, Consumers Union and Consumer Federation of America today released a new analysis of the “public interest commitments” offered by Comcast following the announcement of its merger with NBC Universal.

WASHINGTON — In response to the Comcast-NBC merger announcement this morning, Free Press and the Consumer Federation of America released a new analysis showing why the deal poses a major threat to video competition that would seriously harm the public interest.

WASHINGTON — In a speech at the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, identified policy priorities to support the future of news. “This is a policy issue,” said Waxman of the current state of journalism. “Government is going to have to be involved in one way or another.”