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WASHINGTON — According to press reports late Wednesday night, Comcast is preparing to announce a $44 billion deal to buy Time Warner Cable. The proposed takeover would unite the nation’s largest cable TV and Internet service provider with the second-largest cable company. The combined companies would offer service to two-thirds of U.S. homes. The deal would have to be approved by the Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department.

WASHINGTON — On Monday, in a speech at Silicon Flatirons, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler discussed the agency’s role and the possibility of a rewrite of the Communications Act. He touched on a range of issues before the FCC, including Net Neutrality.

WASHINGTON — On Monday, Sens. Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal and Reps. Henry Waxman and Anna Eshoo introduced the Open Internet Preservation Act of 2014, which would reinstate the Federal Communications Commission’s open Internet rules. Last month the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned these rules, which prohibited Internet service providers from blocking or discriminating against Internet traffic.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday at its open meeting, the Federal Communications Commission issued an order to proceed with service-based trials under the IP transition.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, Free Press led a coalition of organizations that delivered more than 1 million petitions to the Federal Communications Commission urging the agency to restore Net Neutrality.

On Tuesday, a federal court struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet Order. The ruling means that companies like AT&T and Verizon can censor, block and interfere with Internet traffic and content.

The court ruling struck down the Commission’s legal authority to protect an open Internet.

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet Order. In its decision, the court said that the FCC lacked the authority to implement and enforce its rules under the legal framework the agency put forth.

OAKLAND, Calif. — On Thursday, it was standing room only in Nile Hall at Preservation Park as hundreds of Oakland residents gathered to tell Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler about the issues that matter most to them.

WASHINGTON — On Monday, AT&T announced plans to allow businesses to pay AT&T to keep their traffic from counting against AT&T data plans.

OAKLAND, Calif. — On Thurs., Jan. 9, Voices for Internet Freedom, in partnership with the Center for Media Justice, Free Press, Color Of Change and the National Hispanic Media Coalition, will host a town-hall event in Oakland featuring FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.