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WASHINGTON — Today, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski revealed select portions of the National Broadband Plan designed to spur small-business adoption of and access to high-speed Internet services.

WASHINGTON — With top Comcast and NBC executives headed before Congress on Thursday, Free Press urged members of the House Judiciary Committee to challenge the CEOs about how a merger of their companies would affect consumers.

Free Press filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission today urging the agency to protect consumers and promote competition. Ben Scott, policy director for Free Press, made the following statement:

WASHINGTON — Today, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile and Google responded to an inquiry from the Federal Communications Commission about high early termination fees.

WASHINGTON — Free Press has asked the Federal Communications Commission to grant interested parties the opportunity to review recent data collected on broadband subscribership.

WASHINGTON — Today consumer and industry groups concerned with the proposed Comcast-NBC Universal merger called on Comcast Corp. to back up its new promises of good behavior before Congress by withdrawing from its court attack against the Federal Communications Commission on critical pro-competition rules for the pay-TV distribution market.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission will consider an Order and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to enable schools that receive funding from the E- Rate program to allow members of the general public to use the schools’ Internet access during non-operating hours at no additional cost to the Universal Service Fund.

WASHINGTON — New Commerce Department figures released today highlight the challenges in bringing affordable broadband connections to all Americans. The National Telecommunications and Information Agency (NTIA) reports that 40 percent of Americans still don’t have high-speed Internet at home.

WASHINGTON — FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski spoke today about some of the likely recommendations in the National Broadband Plan. Among them is a goal of 100 million households at speeds of 100 Megabits per second.

WASHINGTON — Responding to Google’s announcement today of a plan to build new, ultra high-speed broadband networks, Ben Scott, policy director for Free Press, said: