Tom Wheeler

Windstream Communications Inc. will receive about $13.2 million in annual payments from the FCC's Connect America Fund to support broadband in rural Arkansas. read more >

Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, made a strong case last week when he announced that he would ask his fellow commissioners to adopt what’s known as the “Title II” approach to Internet neutrality. read more >

Internet service providers, including those selling wireless connections, would be prohibited from slowing down or speeding up web traffic, under rules proposed Wednesday by a top U.S. regulator that would subject the broadband industry to unprecedented regulation. read more >

Let's say President Barack Obama gets his way and high-speed Internet service providers are governed by the same U.S. regulations imposed on telephone companies 80 years ago. read more >