AT&T has proposed a lose-lose deal for consumers with its plans to grow even bigger with its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile for $39 billion. Consumers, industry and innovation will all lose if AT&T is allowed to amass even more power and control over our communications and Internet infrastructure. The tremendous advances in technology and price…
DetailsAT&T has proposed a lose-lose deal for consumers with its plans to grow even bigger with its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile for $39 billion. Consumers, industry and innovation will all lose if AT&T is allowed to amass even more power and control over our communications and Internet infrastructure. The tremendous advances in technology and price…
DetailsThe FCC’s National Broadband Plan, released on March 17, 2010, turned a year old this week. Although the Plan is designed around a ten-year timeframe, as PC Mag notes, you have to start somewhere. So, just what has the FCC done, and not done, with its first of ten years? Yesterday, the FCC followed through with the Plan’s call to…
DetailsPresident Clinton spoke last night at the 40th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), currently convening in San Francisco. He urged the members of the international non-profit, which manages the domain name system to keep “stumbling forward” and to remain adaptable as it ages. He didn’t offer particular advice, however, on the…
DetailsThe White House’s IP czar Victoria Espinel is calling on Congress to further expand and toughen U.S. intellectual property law, which is already among the most sweeping and strictest in the world. Copyright regulation has grown into a massive and complicated bureaucratic system, which has lost sight of it purpose and limits. The capture of this Administration…
DetailsSprint, T-Mobile and associations representing rural wireless carriers are asking the FCC to put action on data roaming on its April agenda. In its National Broadband Plan released almost a year ago, the FCC indicated a need to issue rules on data roaming to make customers’ wireless service more reliable and interoperable while preserving consumer…
DetailsUSTR Ron Kirk testified yesterday before the Senate Finance Committee on the President’s 2011 Trade Agenda and the three pending free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama.Disagreement remains between the Obama Administration’s stated intent to submit the KORUS FTA to Congress first, and the position of Republican Senators like Sen. Hatch, R-Utah, and…
DetailsMonths after the FCC’s December vote to approve the Open Internet Order we’re still talking about net neutrality. Nonstop. The House Committee on Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology holds a hearing today on a resolution to express disapproval of the net neutrality rule and, at the hearing’s conclusion, immediately markup and vote…
DetailsMonths after the FCC’s December vote to approve the Open Internet Order we’re still talking about net neutrality. Nonstop. The House Committee on Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology holds a hearing today on a resolution to express disapproval of the net neutrality rule and, at the hearing’s conclusion, immediately markup and vote…
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