Will the FCC have another mega merger to consider?
The Internet is blowing up not only with news of the sale of Apple’s iPhone 5, but also with the speculation that Sprint may be considering a little mischief in the mergers and acquisitions arena. One...
View ArticleOrange County hasn’t made its interference case against wireless carriers
The Orange County, California Sheriff’s Department would like the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider its order that provided spectrum management flexibility in the 800MHz band. Orange...
View ArticleSB 1161 is a move in the right direction
Even states and municipalities should be held to the no market interference rule when it comes to regulating internet protocol (IP) enabled services. Yesterday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed...
View ArticleFCC grants exception for letters of credit issued by CoBank
The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission today announced that it would allow winners of its Mobility Fund Auction (Phase I) to obtain and submit to the FCC...
View ArticleFCC signals it likes AT&T’s $14 billion broadband play
The Federal Communications Commission is whistling a tune investors should like. Today the regulator of one-sixth of the American economy hailed AT&T’s decision to invest $14 billion in Long Term...
View ArticleSection 214: Is it slowing down IP network deployment?
AT&T filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission asking the regulatory body to waive a requirement under section 214 of the Communications Act for a carrier to obtain a certificate...
View ArticleThe Hallelujah Chorus?
Nobody would ever accuse Harold Feld of playing nice with big telecom companies, so when Harold finds something to like about AT&T the rest of us should pay attention. Thanks to a prod by Harold, a...
View ArticleWhy the data roaming ruling may be bad for small carriers
Yesterday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held that the Federal Communications Commission was empowered under Title III of the Communications Act to promulgate its data...
View ArticleMotley Fool thinks AT&T is bullish when it comes to spectrum
A post in the Motley Fool describes AT&T management as “bullish” when it comes to spectrum. The post uses AT&T’s attempts at acquiring T-Mobile last year (Wow, has it been a year?) as an...
View ArticleCapital needs to keep flowing to broadband providers
This morning Georgetown University sponsored a panel on regulation and the transition to Internet Protocol networks. The panel zeroed in on the role an all IP network can play in economic development....
View ArticleHey FCC. Why the delay in the IP transition trials?
Late last week. the Federal Communications Commission issued a public notice seeking comments on proposed trials for evaluating the transition from legacy wireline networks to wireless; from copper...
View ArticleAT&T, Google press FCC for spectrum sharing in 3.5 GHz band
Last Tuesday, AT&T, Inc., and Google, Inc. filed a joint letter with the Federal Communications Commission calling for small cell use in the 3.5 MHz band. AT&T and Google believe that this...
View ArticleSpectrum: Larry Downes describes the downside of changing a social goal
Last week Larry Downes posted an article on how the Federal Communications Commission seems to have lost its way on broadband policy. With a spectrum frontier that, according to Mr. Downes, is...
View ArticleAT&T: And speaking of the inter-operability in the 700 MHz band
The following may be attributed to Joan Marsh, AT&T Vice President-Federal Regulatory: “Today, AT&T agreed to take definitive and concrete steps to bring interoperability to the lower 700 MHz...
View ArticleI thought the FCC liked it by the numbers
I admit while I respected their passion for consumers and telecommunications, I didn’t agree much with former Federal Communications Commissioners Michael J. Copps and Jonathan Adelstein. They had no...
View ArticleKovacs makes argument for regulations getting up to speed in consumer protection
Anna Maria Kovacs, one of my favorite economists, released a study last week in part arguing how regulation is lagging the changes in consumer behavior that w have been seeing within the past decade. I...
View ArticleTier-2 carriers are 21st century re-sellers on steroids
Today the Federal Communications Commission released an order on interoperability in the lower 700mMHz band where smaller competitive wireless carriers can roam on AT&T’s wireless network. I look...
View ArticleAtlanta’s entrepreneurs have choice in wireless broadband
The state of Georgia was recently named number one for business climate and at the heart of that success is the city of Atlanta. Atlanta has been particular inviting to black entrepreneurs over the...
View ArticleFree State reminds us how market manipulation skews markets
So why should the Federal Communications Commission keep conduct a least restrictive spectrum auction for broadcast spectrum? Because, according to the Free State Foundation, tying conditions to an...
View ArticleFCC’s monopoly creates a monopoly on the H block
The Federal Communications Commission may be getting closer to fulfilling FCC member Jessica Rosenworcel’s worst nightmare for the H block spectrum auction, where instead of selling 65 megahertz of...
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