I hope USA Today got it wrong on Kevin Martin and local franchising of telco...
After a brief vacation from the 21st Century, I am back on the job and as puzzled as ever by this USA Today story. As regular readers know, one of the big issues in telecom right now is whether...
View Article700 MHz, Part I: How Do the Bidders Compare to AWS-1?
This is the first installment of a three-part essay on the upcoming 700 MHz auction which the FCC will be starting in January 2008. Part I looks at the aggregate data on potential bidders and compares...
View ArticleMy Simple Net Neutrality Fix.
In what Rob Friedan accurately describes as an obtuseness so thorough it looks suspiciously like deliberate misinformation , the Wall St. J. has yet another piece on what it imagines the network...
View ArticleRepublicans Finally Make FCC Picks. McDowell and Baker to Take R Slots. Now...
At long last, it looks like the Senate Republicans got their act together enough to settle on two FCC candidates: Current Republican FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell and former NTIA Administrator...
View ArticleThe FCC Never Regulated DSL, Oceania Has Always Been At War With Eastasia,...
Hank Hulquist over at AT&T writes that the FCC never regulated internet access. It's a funny thing, because I distinctly remember going through a process where the FCC reclassified DSL from a Title...
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