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A hot story in the world of communications policy this week is that a federal court shot down the FCC's spectrum auction rules as it relates to when and how spectrum won in that auction can be resold. While I'm...
With net neutrality officially back on the FCC's front burner, there's been an incredible uproar over the closed-door nature of the FCC's negotiations with the major players in broadband policy in their attempts to hammer out a compromise. While I...
There's been a lot of buzz recently around Congress questioning the FCC's decision to set a universal broadband goal of 4Mbps down 1Mbps up by 2020 relative to the FCC's 100 Squared goal of 100 million homes having access to...
I'm a big believer that if you're going to do something you should do it right the first time. Also, if you're going to do something, make sure you're doing the right thing. To that end, today I want to...
With each passing day America's national broadband plan looks more and more pathetic. Yesterday I was reminded of Tasmania's broadband ambitions. They've set the goal of reaching 200,000 homes and businesses with 100Mbps within the next four years, which is...
So the FCC just released its first technical paper in support of the national broadband plan. It purports to be analyzing the "broadband availability gap" and solutions for closing it. Presumably this document is intended to make the data-driven case...
Yesterday FCC Chairman Genachowski announced his intent to reclassify broadband as a Title II service from its current position as a Title I service. Without getting into policy wonkdom, the gist of this is that broadband will move from being...
So the big news in broadband policy yesterday was that a US Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC did not have the legal authority to stop Comcast from mucking with P2P traffic on their network. In fact, the ruling...
Today the FCC released an addendum to the national broadband plan that clarified their 100 Squared initiative with a clear plan of attack for how to achieve our fiber-powered future. Acknowledging that having a 100Mbps future dominated by a cable...
In the FCC's national broadband plan an assumption is made that competition is a good thing, that having multiple facilities-based competitors unencumbered by government regulation will create a healthy broadband marketplace. But this DSLReports.com article entitled, "Time Warner's 'Surgical' Upgrades...
The signature goal of the FCC's national broadband plan is its 100 Squared initiative. That 100 Squared goal is defined in the plan as 100 million homes having access to actual-not-just-advertised service of 100Mbps down and 50Mbps up by 2020....
Yesterday the FCC released America's national broadband plan. While there are many issues worth exploring, I wanted to start my analysis by commending the FCC for establishing bold standards for universal broadband. In the plan, the FCC states that all...
Tomorrow the FCC will release its national broadband plan. Finally, ten years into the 21st century, America will have a plan for encouraging the deployment, adoption, and utilization of this most crucial of infrastructure. But how are we to judge...
Last week FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski unveiled his "100 Squared" initiative, which sets the goal of America having 100 million households connected to 100Mbps by 2020. But what does that goal really mean? Is that 100Mbps symmetrical, with as much...
I've recently come to the realization that in my desire to see the national broadband plan do great things for America and my disappointment about the lower than hoped for trajectory its goals seem to currently be on, I've failed...
Recently I had a chance to watch a December C-SPAN interview with Blair Levin, the man charged with writing America's national broadband plan. In it he spends a lot of time talking about the progress America's broadband ecosystem is making...
Yesterday the FCC featured what I found to be the most interesting, insightful, and in-depth broadband workshop yet on the topic of advanced fiber architectures. Organized and moderated by David Isenberg, this wide-ranging discussion brought up a number of excellent...
The FCC just released their top five barriers to broadband adoption. They are: - The affordability of service - The affordability of hardware - Lack of digital and technical literacy - Lack of awareness of the relevance and utility of...
"FCC reform" has become a buzzword in broadband policy circles recently, with new Chairman Genachowski committed to bringing the agency into the 21st century and everyone acknowledging that something needs to be done to improve its efficiency and effectiveness. But...
I've been thinking about something recently: I think we're being too hard on the FCC and the deliberate pace they're setting crafting a national broadband policy. Take for example their not including a representative from a municipal broadband deployer on...
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