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WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission chairman reportedly is continuing to hold closed-door meetings with a few large phone, cable and Internet content companies to negotiate a “compromise” on the crucial issue of Network Neutrality that could jeopardize the free and open Internet.

WASHINGTON – Free Press today responded to unfounded attacks from the Alliance for Digital Equality, an AT&T-funded group that opposes Net Neutrality. The ADE made claims about Free Press and an independent study conducted and written by the Harmony Institute on messaging the public about issues surrounding the future of the Internet.

WASHINGTON – Today, the Library of Congress announced that cell phone users who unlock their phones for use on a different, compatible network or to access third-party applications are not in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

WASHINGTON — Responding to reports that T-Mobile is planning to abandon Net Neutrality for mobile video, Free Press Political Adviser Joel Kelsey said:

WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission filed a brief today with a U.S. appeals court defending the agency’s 2007 decision under former Chairman Kevin Martin to weaken the Newspaper-Broadcast Cross-Ownership (NBCO) Rule.

WASHINGTON – Today, the Federal Communications Commission released the findings of its sixth Section 706 report, determining that broadband services are not being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely manner. The report, mandated by the 1996 Telecommunications Act, requires the FCC to assess the status of broadband deployment.

WASHINGTON – Today, a bipartisan group of senators sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski reminding him that the Senate continues to be concerned about the dangers of media consolidation. Sens.

WASHINGTON – In response to the release this morning of the Progressive Policy Institute’s study titled “The Coming Communications Boom,” Free Press Research Director S. Derek Turner made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – SavetheInternet.com Coalition members, including Free Press and ColorofChange.org, filed petitions with more than 100,000 signatures last week in support of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski’s “Third Way” approach to protecting Net Neutrality and restoring broadband authority.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Senate Communications Subcommittee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) introduced the Spectrum Measurement and Policy Reform Act today. The bill starts the process of implementing the recommendations of the Federal Communications Commission in the National Broadband Plan related to spectrum policy.