The final round of public comments on the FCC’s Open Internet initiative are due today. With this step completed, the record is now ready for the FCC to make a decision on open Internet rules by January – if not later this year.The Computer & Communications Industry Association filed its comments today, saying that wireless broadband is…
Tech policy lobbyists took the net neutrality debate to more neutral territory Thursday as they explained the issue and why it matters to business executives at a panel discussion in Tysons Corner. Lisa Youngers of XO Communications gave a brief summary of the FCC initiatives in play from the National Broadband Plan to net neutrality…
A day ahead of the FCC’s summit on wireless spectrum, several Obama officials spoke at a Brookings Institution event Wednesday about what to do about the looming spectrum shortage. The FCC is working to help free 300m megahertz of new wireless spectrum within the next five years, which is seen as a help. Many of the proposed…
A day ahead of the FCC’s summit on wireless spectrum, several Obama officials spoke at a Brookings Institution event Wednesday about what to do about the looming spectrum shortage. The FCC is working to help free 300m megahertz of new wireless spectrum within the next five years, which is seen as a help. Many of the proposed…
As the net neutrality debate drags on into another season, perhaps some historical “big picture” context is in order. AT&T was broken up in the early 1980s under the terms of an antitrust court decree because it had anti-competitively blocked MCI, which was selling alternative long distance phone calling services using new wireless microwave links. …
For many weeks, House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Waxman conducted an arduous and excruciating series of negotiations aimed at making peace among stakeholders in the net neutrality debate and trying to draft consensus telecommunications legislation. It was an honorable and serious attempt, but it’s not surprising that fundamental differences among them could not be…
The FCC unanimously has approved details of a plan to bring “super Wi-Fi” to consumers. The FCC voted on the details to transfer so called “white spaces”, the spectrum between TV signals, to unlicensed spectrum that can be used for wireless broadband. This is the biggest release of spectrum in 25 years, and will allow…
James Rucker, co-founder of Color of Change, told progressive bloggers Thursday the FCC is trying to guarantee a level playing field for all websites and Internet technologies. But he said some of the big Internet Access Providers “are fighting tooth and nail to make sure the FCC can’t institutionalize these protections.” Rucker spoke to a…
The agreement released yesterday between two major stakeholders in the net neutrality debate – an Internet Access Provider, Verizon, and a content provider, Google, — is an important development which has both positive and negative provisions related to an open Internet and Internet freedom. While it should not be too surprising that companies seek to…
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