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FCC chairman unhappy with cable operator’s court challenge of network-management decision.

FCC chairman Kevin Martin to flip switch to DTV if hurricanes Hanna, Ike, Josephine allow it.

Former FCC chairman appears on C-SPAN's The Communicators.

FCC chairman doesn't expect other markets to pull plug on analog service early, as Wilmington, N.C., will do Sept. 8.

FCC chairman proposes granting waiver of commission's prohibition for small cable systems.

FCC chairman: Commission should be done with its part, other commissioners must wrap up statements.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Comcast Corp has been ordered to change how it manages its broadband network after U.S. communications regulators concluded some of its tactics unreasonably restrict Internet users who share movies and other material.

In a precedent-setting decision, the five-member Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to uphold a complaint accusing Comcast of violating the FCC's open-Internet principles by improperly hindering peer-to-peer traffic.

The head of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday he will recommend that the nation's largest cable company be punished for violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the Internet.

The potentially precedent-setting move stems from a complaint against Comcast Corp. that the company had blocked Internet traffic among users of a certain type of 'file sharing' software that allows them to exchange large amounts of data.

FCC chairman Kevin Martin doesn’t expect XM Satellite Radio-Sirius Satellite Radio merger vote to come at Aug. 1 meeting.

The head of the Iowa Broadcasters Association told FCC chairman Kevin Martin in a letter that some broadcasters there have been going 24/7 with commercial-free coverage of the devastating flooding while they help to marshal volunteer efforts and battle flood waters themselves.