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WASHINGTON — On Friday, the House of Representatives voted 240 to 179 to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s Net Neutrality rules, adopted in December. The bill would rescind the FCC’s ability to protect Internet users and would let the largest phone and cable companies discriminate against content, applications and services at will.

BOSTON — More than 2,500 grassroots activists, policymakers, journalists and scholars from across the country streamed into the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston Friday for the National Conference for Media Reform, and tens of thousands more joined in through satellite TV and online through Twitter, Facebook and the Web.

WASHINGTON — On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit dismissed challenges by Verizon and MetroPCS to the Net Neutrality rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in December. In their challenges, Verizon and MetroPCS had argued that the FCC lacked authority to adopt the rules.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission fined a pair of television stations for airing commercials masquerading as news segments.

WASHINGTON – On Sunday, AT&T announced it had reached an agreement to takeover T-Mobile USA for $39 billion. If approved by federal regulators at the Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission, the merger would unite the second- and fourth-largest wireless carriers, representing nearly 130 million subscribers.

WASHINGTON — On Friday, the Federal Communications Commission voted to approve the Qwest-CenturyLink merger.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the House voted 228 to 192 to approve a bill (H.R. 1076) that would eliminate federal funding for NPR and prohibit local stations from using federal funds to purchase NPR programming.

WASHINGTON — March 16 marks the one-year anniversary of the National Broadband Plan, aimed at increasing access and adoption of broadband nationwide.

BOSTON – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi will headline the 2011 National Conference for Media Reform in Boston on April 8-10.

WASHINGTON — The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted Tuesday to approve House Joint Resolution 37, which would nullify the Federal Communications Commission’s recently approved Net Neutrality rules.