Amy Schatz

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U.S. Tech Giants Speak Up for China

Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 5 at 10:50 am PT

Business groups raised alarms Thursday about a provision in the recently enacted government spending bill that makes it harder for some federal agencies to buy technology made in China.

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FCC Approves AT&T’s Spectrum Plan

Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on October 17, 2012 at 11:59 am PT

Federal regulators signed off Wednesday on a plan that would resolve longstanding interference issues between AT&T Inc. and Sirius XM Radio Inc. and allow the wireless giant to expand its high-speed LTE network.

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Verizon Deal Nears Regulatory Approval

Amy Schatz and Thomas Catan, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 14, 2012 at 7:44 am PT

Federal regulators are preparing to clear Verizon Wireless’s $3.9 billion deal to acquire airwaves from several cable companies including Comcast Corp., according to people close to the negotiations, after the companies reached broad agreement to settle antitrust concerns.

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Verizon Wireless Pays $1.25 Million to Settle FCC Complaint

Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 31, 2012 at 12:35 pm PT

Verizon Wireless agreed to pay $1.25 million to settle a Federal Communications Commission complaint that it inappropriately pressured Google Inc. into blocking access to some applications on Google’s Android mobile store.

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Competition Worries Snag Verizon Deal on Airwaves

Amy Schatz and Thomas Catan, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on July 13, 2012 at 6:30 am PT

The Justice Department is holding up Verizon Wireless’s $3.9 billion deal to acquire cable-company airwaves over concerns a related agreement will hurt competition for broadband Internet service, according to people familiar with the matter.

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U.S. Probes Cable for Limits on Net Video

Thomas Catan and Amy Schatz, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 12, 2012 at 9:11 pm PT

The Justice Department is conducting a wide-ranging antitrust investigation into whether cable companies are acting improperly to quash nascent competition from online video, according to people familiar with the matter.

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FCC Proposes $25,000 Fine on Google

Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 15, 2012 at 1:18 am PT

The Federal Communications Commission proposed a $25,000 fine on Google Inc., accusing the search giant of deliberately obstructing an investigation into whether the company violated federal rules when its street-mapping service collected and stored data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks in 2010.

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U.S. Proposes Sharing Airwaves

Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on March 27, 2012 at 5:02 pm PT

Obama administration officials proposed requiring the Defense Department and other federal agencies to share a chunk of the airwaves they currently use with wireless companies after concluding it could be too expensive and time-consuming to move the federal agencies to other airwaves.

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Verizon, Comcast Defend Spectrum-Purchase Plan

Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 22, 2012 at 8:26 am PT

Verizon Communications Inc. and Comcast Corp. executives defended Verizon’s proposal to buy airwaves from cable companies for $3.6 billion, arguing at a Senate hearing Wednesday that it wouldn’t hurt competition and would improve Verizon’s wireless service.

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Bill Is a Boon for Wireless

Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on February 16, 2012 at 11:56 am PT

Wireless carriers could be among the biggest beneficiaries of Congress’s plan to extend the payroll-tax cut because the legislation currently includes a provision to raise billions of dollars by auctioning off television airwaves.