WASHINGTON, DC – The National Black Chamber of Commerce, U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce hosted a teleconference this week to discuss the joint letter they submitted to the FCC’s NPRM on net neutrality. The letter, also signed by the U.S. Pan Asian Chamber of Commerce, disagreed with [...]
WASHINGTON, DC — High-stakes political maneuvering is dragging Hispanic advocacy groups here deeper into battle over the future of the Internet.
As the Federal Communications Commission moves ahead with plans to create a set of rules designed to block online monopolies from forming, supportive consumer protection organizations are pressing ethnic advocacy and civil rights groups, including [...]
WASHINGTON, DC - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has announced the appointment of Joel Gurin as Chief of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau and Thomas Wyatt as Chief of the Office of Workplace Diversity. Stuart Benjamin will be joining the Commission as the agency’s first Distinguished Scholar in Residence. He will reside in [...]
The Minority Media and Telecommunications has asked the FCC not to accept applications specifying channels 5 and 6 in its January 2010 filing window for low-power TV stations and TV translators, and would also like the FCC to delay processing those applications in the August 25, 2009 window.
MMTC Exec. Director David Honig notes in the [...]