America's Communications Association is postponing its annual Washington, D.C., summit, scheduled for March 17-19, citing coronavirus concerns.

The FCC suspended "non-critical" staff travel, among other coronavirus precautions, it announced Wednesday afternoon. Also on hiatus "until further notice" is the agency's "involvement in non-critical large gatherings that involve participants" from "across the country and/or around the world."

Commerce Department Deputy Chief of Staff and Policy Director Earl Comstock is leaving the department, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross confirmed Monday. “I value his wise counsel, his deep policy expertise, his innovative thinking and leadership, and I thank him for his service to the American people,” Ross said in a statement. Comstock's positions on spectrum policy have conflicted with goals of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.

The FCC proposed fining the four national wireless carriers a total of more than $200 million over privacy concerns, the agency's chairman, Ajit Pai, announced to reporters this afternoon. He said that the proposed penalties had recently been adopted.

FCC members OK'd rules for a C-band auction, at their ongoing meeting Friday morning. The vote was along party lines, 3-2.

Disney's board picked a successor for Bob Iger. Bob Chapek was elevated to CEO, effective immediately. He was chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products.

After a few years of some stakeholders seeking one, a field hearing will be held in Puerto Rico that involves the FCC. A commissioner, not the agency itself, will host it, we were told.

The U.S. accused Huawei of conspiring to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. DOJ said Thursday afternoon that "a superseding indictment was returned yesterday in federal court in Brooklyn, New York."

The annual Mobile World Congress was canceled due to the coronavirus. Many companies had pulled out, as we previously reported.

The FTC ordered Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft to provide information about acquisitions they made since 2010 that weren't reported to that agency or DOJ under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. The FTC Act Section 6(b) orders "will help the FTC deepen its understanding of large technology firms’ acquisition activity, including how these firms report their transactions to the federal antitrust agencies, and whether large tech companies are making potentially anticompetitive acquisitions of nascent or potential competitors that fall below HSR filing thresholds," the agency said Tuesday.