Economics and Analytics Blogs

June 5, 2019 - 2:35 pm

Babette Boliek | FCC Chief Economist

Eric Burger | FCC Chief Technology Officer

In the three minutes it takes to read this page, American consumers will receive about 350,000 unwanted calls to their homes...

July 12, 2016 - 3:00 pm

Richard Mansfield | Associate CIO for Stakeholder Relations, Office of the Managing Director

Allison Baker | Senior Data Analytics Manager, Office of Strategic Planning & Policy Analysis

Perryn Ashmore | Associate CIO for Tailored Platforms and Data, Office of the Managing Director

Maps and geospatial analysis have become increasingly important as they allow the FCC to display information to the public in...

July 1, 2016 - 11:00 am

Gary Epstein | Chair, Incentive Auction Task Force

Howard Symons | Vice-Chair, Incentive Auction Task Force

Earlier this week we witnessed the end of bidding in the initial stage of the world’s first broadcast incentive auction. We...

December 24, 2014 - 9:10 am

Recently, the FCC released a full list of bidders in the Rural Broadband Experiment auction, collected information from the...

August 20, 2014 - 11:28 am

Eric Spry | Deputy Geographic Information Officer

Today we are pleased to release our first update to the FCC E-rate Maps of Fiber Connectivity to Schools and Libraries...

March 11, 2014 - 5:37 pm

In his office at home, the Chairman of the FCC keeps a slice of an old C&P telephone pole, a small piece of history...