Press Releases

WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday, Free Press filed with the Federal Communications Commission a petition to deny AT&T’s proposed takeover of T-Mobile. The merger would combine the second- and fourth-largest mobile providers and would create a duopoly where AT&T and Verizon control nearly 80 percent of the market, leading to a significant decline in innovation and investment.

WASHINGTON -- Speaking at a press conference hosted by Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, Free Press Policy Counsel Aparna Sridhar commented on the dangerous AT&T/T-Mobile merger.

WASHINGTON -- On Friday, the Federal Communications Commission released the findings of its seventh Section 706 report.

WASHINGTON – North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue today refused to veto a bill that will hinder towns’ and municipalities’ ability to build their own broadband networks, ignoring of thousands of phone calls and emails from her constituents and others around the country concerned about communities being stranded on the wrong side of the digital divide.

WASHINGTON -- House Oversight Committee Chair Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chair Julius Genachowski questioning the conduct of outgoing Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker, who announced last week she would be leaving the agency to become a lobbyist for Comcast-NBC.

WASHINGTON -- On Friday, the House Energy and Commerce communications subcommittee held a hearing on “FCC Process Reform.” Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and all four commissioners were invited to testify. However, soon-to-depart Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker was a no-show.

WASHINGTON — Free Press today endorsed a bill designed to prevent discriminatory practices by cable operators and to ensure a level playing field for community voices in an increasingly consolidated cable industry. The bipartisan Community Access Preservation Act (HR 1746), co-sponsored by Reps.

WASHINGTON -- Federal Communications Commissioner Meredith Atwell Baker reportedly will be departing the agency in June to take a job with Comcast-NBC -- a company whose multi-billion mega-merger she approved just four months ago.

WASHINGTON – In advance of a Senate hearing on Wednesday about the proposed $39 billion merger of AT&T and T-Mobile, Free Press has issued a preliminary analysis of key antitrust problems with the transaction.

WASHINGTON -- A new Free Press report released Monday reveals deep disparities between the amount of local news offered on Comcast's English- and Spanish-language stations.