AT&T has filed FCC applications to acquire another competitor. The FCC must decide whether the proposed license transfers are in the public interest . The FCC has already found deficiencies in competition among nationwide wireless carriers in its latest report. Recent Sprint deals with cash-poor Clearwire and spectrum starved non-operational start-up Lightsquared hardly alter the…
Senators Kerry and McCain introduced a privacy bill yesterday, that aims to protect consumers without unnecessarily burdening privacy industry. Privacy, trust, and innovation can go hand in hand and the Kerry/McCain bill is a great start to achieving that. Consumer privacy, however, is not the last word, and Congress must also act to strike a…
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services started accepting visa petitions for FY 2012 for highly skilled workers this month. Last week, the Immigration Policy and Enforcement Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee held its hearing, “H-1B Visas: Designing a Program to Meet the Needs of the U.S. Economy and U.S. Workers.” As Chairman Elton Gallegly…
AT&T asserts that acquiring T-Mobile will allow it to roll out its next-generation wireless network. However, what they don’t say is that the potential merger will actually delay, rather that precipitate AT&T’s (and T-Mobile’s) investment and expansion of its next-generation wireless network. The reasons for this are many. First, the financial facts of the merger…
AT&T asserts that acquiring T-Mobile will allow it to roll out its next-generation wireless network. However, what they don’t say is that the potential merger will actually delay, rather that precipitate AT&T’s (and T-Mobile’s) investment and expansion of its next-generation wireless network. The reasons for this are many. First, the financial facts of the merger…
This all seems eerily familiar. AT&T uses JP Morgan’s money to buy-out up-start competitors. The firm argues to antitrust authorities that its monopolist tendencies will provide the benefit of expanding connectedness to more Americans. Thus, the argument went, elimination of competition was really for the public’s benefit. Whether these events recall the creation of the…
This all seems eerily familiar. AT&T uses JP Morgan’s money to buy-out up-start competitors. The firm argues to antitrust authorities that its monopolist tendencies will provide the benefit of expanding connectedness to more Americans. Thus, the argument went, elimination of competition was really for the public’s benefit. Whether these events recall the creation of the…
How should the government free up bandwidth and balance the interests of those involved? Panelists weighed in at a Brookings Institution event Wednesday “A Framework for Innovative Federal Spectrum Policy.” Panelists including James Cicconi of AT&T, Blair Levin of the Aspen Insitute, Adele Morris of the Brookings Institute, Richard Whitt of Google, and Roger Entner…
How should the government free up bandwidth and balance the interests of those involved? Panelists weighed in at a Brookings Institution event Wednesday “A Framework for Innovative Federal Spectrum Policy.” Panelists including James Cicconi of AT&T, Blair Levin of the Aspen Insitute, Adele Morris of the Brookings Institute, Richard Whitt of Google, and Roger Entner…
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