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The National Hispanic Media Coalition applauds the FCC for taking a major step in combating the unjust financial burden placed on incarcerated people and their families.

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, Free Press filed a “petition to deny” Charter Communications’ proposed $78.7 billion merger with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. The petition, submitted to the Federal Communications Commission, presents a definitive account of how the deal fails both the public interest and the antitrust tests required for regulatory approval.

Washington, D.C. — The National Hispanic Media Coalition today filed an amicus brief on behalf of several other civil rights, racial justice, and public interest groups petitioning the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm the FCC’s open Internet rules.

WASHINGTON — Free Press on Monday intervened with nearly two-dozen advocacy groups and tech-industry leaders in defense of the Federal Communications Commission’s Net Neutrality order.

WASHINGTON — The Rev. Dr. Everett C. Parker, the founder of the Office of Communication, Inc., at the United Church of Christ, died on Thursday morning at the age of 102.

WASHINGTON — On Monday, Free Press submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission as part of the agency’s proceeding to update the Lifeline program.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday the Federal Communications Commission voted on several items pertaining to next year’s Mobile Broadband Incentive Auction. Pursuant to the auction, the FCC will allow broadcasters to sell valuable spectrum, which will then be repurposed for mobile use. Today’s rules will also make more spectrum available for unlicensed uses, like Wi-Fi, in the post-auction TV band.

WASHINGTON — Phone and cable companies and their lobbying groups filed an initial series of legal briefs on Thursday as part of their legal challenge against the Federal Communications Commission’s Feb. 26 Net Neutrality order.

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the FCC is poised to grant AT&T’s proposed acquisition of DIRECTV. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler subsequently issued a statement confirming that he would circulate for a full Commission vote an order proposing approval of the deal.

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, more than 60 organizations sent a letter to the chairman and ranking member of the House Committee on Appropriations urging them to “remove from the Financial Services appropriations bill Sections 628-630 of that legislation, which threaten implementation of the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet Order.”