Wednesday, March 11, 2009
FCC Promises Open Process on National Broadband Strategy
Get ready for an excruciatingly inclusive process in figuring out how the government will implement its national broadband strategy.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Handicapping the Genachowski Honeymoon
The news that President Obama has formally nominated Julius Genachowski to chair the Federal Communications Commission has been received with something slightly short of euphoria by a large portion of the broadcasting and telecommunications sector. Over the last eight hours Ars Technica has been deluged with statements of pure, unadulterated happiness about the pick….
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
The Very Expensive Myth of Long Distance
A showdown over the billions of dollars traded in the dark underside of the telephone system was postponed on Monday. Kevin Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, had proposed a complex plan to restructure how long distance carriers pay local phone companies to complete calls. Facing opposition from the other four commissioners, Mr. Martin abandoned a vote on the plan scheduled for Tuesday.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Rockers Refuse to Throw the Horns for White Space Broadband
As a vote on the question looms, the Federal Communications Commission’s docket continues to fill up with an amazing number of statements, position papers, petitions and pronouncements, all focused on whether the agency should authorize unlicensed devices to pick up and receive wireless broadband via temporarily unused TV channels–aka white space.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Comcast Discloses Throttling Practices–BitTorrent Targeted
Comcast came clean with the Federal Communications Commission late Friday, detailing how it throttled and targeted peer-to-peer traffic–maneuvers it has repeatedly denied.
The cable concern said it indeed hit “particular protocols that were generating disproportionate amounts of traffic.”
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Who Should Solve This Internet Crisis?
The Internet was in crisis. Its electronic “pipes” were clogged with new bandwidth-hogging software. Engineers faced a choice: Allow the Net to succumb to fatal gridlock or find a solution. The year was 1987. About 35,000 people, mainly academics and some government employees, used the Internet.
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Friday, April 18, 2008
Look Who’s Beating Up on Google
What do Cliff Stearns, John Shimkus and Fred Upton have in common? They’re all members of the House Telecommunications Subcommittee, and they’ve each publicly accused Google of having “duped” the Federal Communications Commission by “gaming” a recent multibillion-dollar auction of wireless frequencies, shortchanging federal coffers. They also have this in common: Each has received more than $100,000 in campaign contributions over their careers from telephone and cable interests locked in a battle with Google over the use of those frequencies.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Verizon Licks Its Cheap Megahertz Pops
Here’s the telecom geek quiz of the day: What’s a megahertz pop?
A) What a Federal Communications Commission lawyer eats to cool off on a hot day
B) An ultrasonic explosive device used for pranks at MIT
C) A shiny prize horded by large phone companies
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Comcast: We Need to Play Internet Traffic Cop
Comcast, the second largest Internet service provider in the country, is making the controversial and aggressive case that Internet service providers should be allowed to serve as traffic cops on the Internet. In an 80-page filing with the Federal Communications Commission yesterday, the company says it has a right to clamp down on the use of peer-to-peer file-sharing programs on its network to preserve the smooth flow of bits to and from all its customers. The filing was in response to an FCC complaint from network neutrality groups in November after the Associated Press revealed that Comcast was stopping some customers from using BitTorrent, a file-sharing program often used to swap copyrighted copies of songs and movies over the Internet.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the 700-MHz Auction but Were Afraid to Ask
When analog television broadcasting goes dark in the United States on Feb. 17, 2009, and the huge analog transmitters of more than 1,600 broadcast stations are turned off, what will happen to those radio frequencies formerly used for analog TV? Well, for UHF channels 60 to 69, the future will be decided starting this week, as the Federal Communications Commission begins to auction that reclaimed bandwidth, bringing at least $10 billion into the treasury from auction winners and possibly allowing a dramatic expansion of wireless spectrum for cellular voice and data communication.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
What Problem Is the FCC Trying to Solve?
Remember the eighties, the decade when pop killed off punk, and when Jerry Bruckheimer got rich making loud and lame movies? OK, so some things never change. Another loud and lame idea from the eighties has come back to haunt us. The Federal Communications Commission has loosened the rules preventing companies from owning television stations and newspapers in the same market.
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