Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said Thursday that the commission has rejected China Mobile USA's application to provide phone services between the United States and other countries because of national security risks. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has unveiled his plan to undo the 2015 "net neutrality" rules that had placed Internet providers under the strictest-ever regulatory oversight. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Telemarketers are prohibited from making prerecorded phone calls to people without prior consent. It's also illegal to deliberately falsify caller ID with the intent to harm or defraud consumers. PeopleImages/Getty Images/iStock hide caption
The Blue Alert, a new kind of public emergency notification was named after two New York Police Department officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, who were killed in an ambush attack by a man who hours earlier had shot a woman near Baltimore. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is proposing first privacy regulations for Internet service providers. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear the latest challenge to the FCC's attempts to regulate Internet access. kynny/iStockphoto hide caption
Republicans in Congress are no fans of FCC Chairman Thomas Wheeler's "net neutrality" plan. Jose Luis Magana/AP hide caption
Randall Stephenson, chairman and CEO of AT&T, introduces President Obama before the latter's remarks Dec. 3 at the quarterly meeting of the Business Roundtable, a group Stephenson chairs. Stephenson has said that increasing regulation of the broadband industry — as proposed by the president — would have a substantial chilling effect on its investment in infrastructure. Pool/Getty Images hide caption
Slow-loading messages will appear on some of your favorite sites Wednesday as part of a protest for net neutrality. But the sites won't actually be loading slower — the banners will be displayed just to make a point. iStockphoto hide caption
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (right) and Facebook lobbyist Joel Kaplan are part of the Internet Association, which filed comments in support of net neutrality Monday. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
Critics told Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler his agency's proposed news media study would threaten press freedom. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption
The future of the Internet is at stake in a case before a D.C. court. Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Federal Communications Commission commissioners listen to staff recommendations. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption