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In the latest batch of the second round of the broadband stimulus, RUS announced $100 million worth of grants to satellite "broadband" providers. To some degree it isn't news that RUS is subsidizing satellite as they'd announced plans to set...
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...
A few weeks ago RUS released the first batch of winners for the second round of the broadband stimulus program. While critical of how they handled the selection process and of how they chose primarily private closed networks in the...
Earlier this week I came across this interesting study by BroadbandChoices that suggested consumers care more about broadband reliability than speed. While our national broadband plan does touch on the issue of broadband reliability, suggesting it's a topic worth researching...
Over the weekend during my travels through Paris with my wife I had a chance to visit with Michael Curri of SNG Networks at his home. While there he highlighted something that while I knew as a data point hit...
One growing trend among America's communications providers is the offering of "price for life" services. These promise to deliver a guaranteed price for service for the life of a customer. But there's a bizarre assumption underlying these offers, namely that...
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...
Yesterday, Ookla released the Net Index, a ranking of average broadband speeds by city, state, and country. As background, Ookla is the company that powers the bandwidth tests at Speedtest.net and Pingtest.net. They also license their bandwidth testing engine 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...
On Friday I found a link to this UK article on DSLReports.com with the title "Government should concentrate on 2Mbps broadband." In it is the statement from Simon Piper of ConsumerChoices, "Focussing on national superfast rollout is great for government...
There are so many things wrong about the way we debate broadband policy, but one of the most erroneous is the conflation of regulating the Internet vs. broadband. Now, I don't necessarily blame people for this confusion as the terms...
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 I had the opportunity to address the Net Squared meetup group in New Orleans about my work advocating for broadband in general and fiber specifically. The NetSquared crew is a group of local techies who are committed to seeing...
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...
Too often in broadband policy circles we allow personal biases to cloud our thinking. We let preconceived assumptions get in the way of the truth of what really matters. One area where this habit is especially egregious is in our...
The foundation of American broadband policy to date has been that the best way to stimulate deployment is to leave it up to the market, to let private, profit-maximizing companies compete to lower prices, improve service, and expand networks. While...
Beyond eating criminal amounts of turkey, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie, Thanksgiving is the time of year we're supposed to give thanks for what we have. To that end, I wanted to take a moment to point out the facets...
So apparently there's some level of consensus getting entrenched among DC policy circles that setting the residential broadband bar at 3Mbps down and 1Mbps up is adequate. Well I'm here today to refute that thinking, to show that this isn't...
As I recently wrote, most people don't understand even the basics of broadband, including many of our policymakers. Because of this, the discussions surrounding broadband policy-making often must resort to the use of analogies to simplify the explanation of complex...
I've been meaning to say this for a while, so here it goes: Death to T1s! Before going any further let me pause to give them some credit. They've been a great way to get reliable access to the Internet...
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