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News about Tom Wheeler

• FCC requires consumer protections in telephone transition to IP

  Carriers must get permission from the FCC if they discontinue or reduce voice services during the change

• FCC rejects proposal favoring small carriers in spectrum auction

  The commission declines to streamline conditions for triggering a spectrum set-aside locking out AT&T and Verizon

• T-Mobile to pay $17.5 million fine for 911 outages

  A settlement with the FCC requires the company to improve the reliability of its emergeny dialing service

• FCC looks to protect customers during voice switch to IP

  Carriers would be required to give customers warning before retiring their copper-based networks, under an agency proposal

• FCC's Wheeler defends net neutrality rules, discounts investment fears

  Several broadband providers have announced expansions since the FCC passed the regulations, Wheeler says

• Four things to watch for as net neutrality rules go into effect

  With the rules now enforced, watch for possible complaints about net neutrality violations

Features about Tom Wheeler

• US court strikes down net neutrality: What's next?

  The FCC has several options, but many of them aren't likely to prevail