New America et al./MAP

The New America Foundation's Wireless Future Program, as part of a broader public interest coalition, on Dec. 11 filed a petition urging the Federal Communications Commission to issue a declaratory ruling stating that "Text Messaging and Short Codes are Title II Services or are Title I Services Subject to Section 202 Nondiscrimination Rules."

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These Reply Comments were submitted on behalf of Benton Foundation, Campaign Legal Center, Center for Governmental Studies, Common Cause, Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ, Inc., and Prometheus Radio Project (collectively “Public Interest Coalition” or “PIC”) in the Commission’s Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Digital Audio Broadcasting Systems and Their Impact on the Terrestrial Radio Broadcast Service, MM Docket No. 99-325, 22 FCCRcd 10344 (2007) (“Second FNPRM”).

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With the transition to digital radio, the Commission has a rare opportunity to address documented failures in providing listeners with diverse and local programming. The transition to digital will provide broadcasters with additional programming capacity, and the Commission must use this opportunity to promote its goals of diversity, localism, and competition. The Public Interest Coalition supports the Commission’s efforts to ensure that with the additional programming capacity, broadcasters, in return for the exclusive… more

To view preliminary results from New America's testing of DTV receiver desesitization interference, conducted at the University of Kansas under the supervision of Kolodzy Consulting, LLC, and Marcus Spectrum Solutions, please see the PDF document linked below.

COMMENTS OF THE NATIONAL HISPANIC MEDIA COALITION THE NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION HAWAII CONSUMERS PROMETHEUS RADIO PROJECT MEDIA ALLIANCE THE BENTON FOUNDATION U.S. PIRG

Media Access Project, on behalf of The National Hispanic Media Coalition, The New America Foundation, Hawaii Consumers, Prometheus Radio Project, Media Alliance, the Benton Foundation and U.S. PIRG (collectively “NHMC, et al.”) respectfully submit these comments. NHMC, et al. support the Commission’s preliminary conclusion to apply the existing public… more

COMMENTS OF NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION MEDIA ACCESS PROJECT CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA WIRELESS INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS ASSOCIATION (WISPA) ACORN ACTIVE MEDIA FOUNDATION COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY CENTERS’ NETWORK CHAMPAIGN URBANA COMMUNITY WIRELESS NETWORK (CUWiN) THE ETHOS GROUP FREENETWORKS.ORG

Introduction & Summary

For close to a generation, telecom policy analysts have argued that the TV broadcast band was extremely inefficiently utilized and that parts of it should be reallocated for more efficient uses. In… more

INTRODUCTION

These reply comments are being filed by a coalition of the New America Foundation and other entities (NAF et al.) listed on the cover page. These entities include nonprofits, corporations, and professors of engineering, and they have joined in urging the Commission to complete positive action in its proposals in this proceeding. These entities have explicitly reserved the right to file reply comments individually. These coalition comments only concern issues on which the above entities were able to reach… more