The FCC has just submitted its National Broadband plan to Congress. The plan is pretty ambitious; the FCC wants at least 100 million U.S. homes to have access to affordable broadband of at least 100Mbps download speeds. Likening broadband to electricity, the executive summary calls the technology “a foundation for …

A pair of iPads was just revealed in the FCC’s system in perfect synchrony with that little pre-order sitch with which you may or may not already be familiar. Apple, of course, has a track record of timing its FCC filings perfectly so that virtually nothing is revealed before Cupertino wants it …

Leave it to Google to make even the FCC ’s ambitions look meager. But hey, for the vast majority of Americans who will never have access to an ISP with 1Gbps , we’ve got nothing but kudos to send to Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski. As the story goes, the FCC has unveiled…

Oops. Those two pics looks familiar, eh? And if we’re not mistaken, Microsoft’s Pink phone is rumored to be made by Sharp . This wirerame for model PB10ZU just hit the FCC looking every bit the ” Turtle ” device that was leaked last year. Of course, seeing Sharp behind Pink is …

The feds simply aren’t backing down from their incessant warnings of a wireless broadband spectrum crunch the likes of which the world has never seen, and they’ve seemingly found a great vehicle — the iPad — to help spread the message just a little further (and at a higher volume) than before. This time around…

You had to know Microsoft would respond to former VP Dick Brass saying the company didn’t have “a true system for innovation” in the New York Times this morning, and it looks like Redmond’s VP of corporate communications Frank Shaw is on the move: he’s just posted up a reply on The…

By all appearances, Google’s trying to break Android free of the surly bonds of the manufacturers and carriers that support it, opening its own online store and selling unlocked Nexus Ones to anyone willing to pony up the $529. Problem is, the Nexus One as we know it today is only available in a configuration…

Before the Nexus One and the HD2, there was the Toshiba TG01 , sprinting along with a 1GHz Snapdragon in its belly and a 4.1-inch front end. Alas, that phone was hamstrung by a resistive touchscreen and a poorly thought-out skin atop an even worse OS (WinMo 6.1), but even by today’s standards its …

It’s been a couple of months since Verizon doubled their Early Termination Fee (ETF) for “advanced devices,” which essentially means smartphones and netbooks. During that time, the FCC got suspicious of the cell carrier’s hefty increase in the fee that’s meant to discourage customers from breaking out…

Comcast has been hampering the peer-to-peer downloading protocol BitTorrent, and a federal appeals court will likely reject the Federal Communications Commission’s attempt to sanction the company for it. The FCC moved against Comcast as part of an overall strategy to defend and promote Net Neutrality . Proponents of Net Neutrality — which include…