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El fiscal general del estado de Washington, Nick Brown, se unió a otros 18 fiscales generales y la ciudad de Nueva York para solicitar que la Comisión Federal de Comunicaciones (FCC, por sus siglas en inglés) publique de inmediato una norma que amplíe el acceso lingüístico a las alertas gubernamentales de emergencia. El grupo envió una carta a la Comisión el pasado viernes.

Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown has joined a coalition of 18 other attorneys general and New York City in calling for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to immediately publish a rule that would expand language accessibility for government emergency alerts. They sent a letter to the FCC last Friday.

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At a time when many of us are going online to do everything from work to school to shopping to health care, the COVID-19 crisis is shining a big light on the haves and have-nots when it comes to the Internet. The federal government estimates upwards of a third of all people in rural America have little or no access to the Internet.

Distance learning, ordering groceries online or applying for unemployment, those are all kind of difficult without a good internet connection. So, at least seven public utilities spanning Washington state are setting up drive-up Wi-Fi hotspots amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The proposed merger "is not reasonably likely to substantially lessen competition" in the mobile wireless market, the judge said. The deal would unite the nation's third- and fourth-largest carriers.

The Federal Communications Commission opened a window Monday for federally recognized tribes to apply for licenses that could help establish or expand internet access on their lands. The FCC estimates that about one-third of people living on tribal lands don’t have access to high-speed internet, but others say the figure is twice as high.

The Federal Communications Commission said in a news release Thursday that Scott Rhodes violated the Truth in Caller ID Act that bars the manipulation of caller ID information so calls appear to come from local numbers — a technique called “neighbor spoofing.

A proposed change could see more radio stations ending up in the hands of fewer executives, which would have a homogenizing effect on radio dials around the U.S. The thing is, that's already happened.

Activists are asking city or county governments of at least seven Pacific Northwest communities to defy the federal government. They want to stop the deployment of next-generation 5G cellular service.