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• FCC denies requests to delay net neutrality rules

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has denied the requests of several broadband providers and trade groups asking the agency to delay its net neutrality rules.

• Coalition gears up to oppose trade legislation pushing Trans-Pacific deal

  Protests over a controversial international trade agreement have taken on new urgency in recent days, after U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation that would give President Barack Obama's administration broad authority to negotiate the deal.

• Obama resurrects cyberthreat sharing proposal despite privacy concerns

  The centerpiece of U.S. President Barack Obama's new cybersecurity proposal is a controversial plan that would allow companies to share more cyberthreat information with government agencies, something that worries some privacy advocates.

• 33 equipment manufacturers oppose public-utility broadband

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should resist calls to reclassify broadband as a regulated public utility as a way to enact strong net neutrality rules, more than 30 broadband equipment manufacturers, including Cisco Systems, IBM and Intel, have said.

• FCC clears the way for faster Wi-Fi

  U.S. regulators are opening up spectrum that could allow for Wi-Fi services with speeds of one gigabit per second and faster.

• NSA's Alexander asks telecom industry to trust him

  The director of the U.S. National Security Agency wants you to trust his people.

• Obama nominates Wheeler as new FCC chairman

  U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated telecom trade group veteran Tom Wheeler to be the next chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

• After WCIT: Some observers fear content proposals

  Expect no major changes to the functioning of the Internet in the coming months after a controversial ending to the International Telecommunication Union's World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), but an agreement hammered out there may encourage countries to censor Web content in the longer term, participants and observers said.

• FCC moves to open radar spectrum to commercial uses

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to move forward on plans to have the U.S. military share wireless spectrum in the 3.5GHz band with commercial users.