Progressive groups have escalated their actions on two key issues this week, engaging in direct phone campaigns to target a retail business spending in a Minnesota gubernatorial election, and to pressure the FCC to reclassify broadband service so they can regulate it for net neutrality. I noted yesterday that MoveOn was threatening a nationwide boycott [...]

Yesterday, the President issued a memorandum making available 500 MHz of spectrum over the next ten years, to be offered at auction for wireless broadband services. It’s part of the implementation of the national broadband strategy laid out by the FCC in a policy document earlier this year. McClatchy has a report: The president’s plan [...]

(A clearer explanation of the issues in this post, IMO, is at Balkinization) While the DC Circuit Court ruling on the FCC’s regulation of net neutrality and broadband Internet would appear to require legislative action for reversal, a key litigator in the case tells FDL News that the FCC could, if they chose, work through [...]