Proposed FCC head is an FOB
The rumored new head of the FCC is an FOB. That’s “Friend of Barack,” people, as in a former Harvard Law School classmate of the president-elect, who definitely knows his way around Washington D.C....
View ArticleVerizon CEO comes out swinging against net neutrality
I gotta say, any trade show that opens the ceremonies with some trash talkin’ has my attention. After giving up a little hip-hip-hooray for Verizon’s long-awaited 4G network (ready for 60 devices thus...
View ArticleFCC brings down curtain on wireless mics, evicts Broadway from 700 Mhz block
Did you try doing a Google News search on net neutrality today? Like me, you probably ran into thousands of stories hemming and hawing over Google, telecom operators’ comments and net neutrality. But...
View ArticleCTIA keynote roundup: Data traffic is growing — shocking!
This one comes from the in-case-you’ve-been-hiding-under-a-rock file. Keynotes are supposed to grip the audience, set the agenda for a conference and offer fresh insight into how industry leaders see...
View ArticleCourt ruling is a major set-back for FCC’s net neutrality position
“Net neutrality” advocates took a body blow today when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit gave the FCC a big thumbs’ down on having the authority to prevent Comcast Corp....
View ArticleBroadcaster joint venture to deliver mobile device content is no accident
Sometimes telecom’ers forget that the broadcast industry is also subject to FCC whims, um, I mean regulations, and that it spends as much time trying to pacify the agency beast and positioning with the...
View ArticleAT&T to manage chaos on the horizon – if conditions are right
AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson was selling managed chaos theory in Dallas Wednesday in his keynote speech at the TIA’s “Inside the Network” conference. His kind of chaos theory has...
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