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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 the Google Fiber project all the rage, I want to take a moment to share my plan of attack for the project if I ran Google in the hopes they find some of these ideas useful. For starters, let's...
Today I want to attempt to lay out a high-level framework for how our national broadband plan could spur broadband deployment on an ongoing basis. It starts with the idea of establishing broadband standards. These standards will be the metrics...
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...
There's been a lot of buzz around the benefits and relative viability of wiring all community anchor institutions (schools, libraries, hospitals, etc.) with fiber as the way to get the best bang for the broadband buck. But recent conversations with...
As Verizon nears the end of its initial $23 billion rollout of FiOS, it's seeming likely that they're going to focus more on marketing what they've already built rather than expanding their fiber footprint further. While I'm admittedly disappointed that...
The FCC's workshop on broadband deployment featured speakers from across the spectrum of broadband providers, except for one notable omission: they didn't have a single representative from a municipal broadband deployer. To give them some credit they did include a...
I have to admit suffering from a fair amount of trepidation heading into yesterday's FCC workshop on broadband deployment. As an advocate for fiber, I worried that we'd end up seeing another discussion where the desire to be technology neutral...
So in one camp you have folks who think broadband deployment should be purely market-driven, all broadband networks should be owned/operated by private companies, and these networks should be vertically integrated with services. In another camp you have those who...
There's a lot more to NTIA's BTOP program than just deployment--including money for demand stimulation, public computing centers, and broadband mapping--but for now I want to take a moment and outline in broad brushstrokes how I'd spend the roughly $4...
Goodness gracious, the broadband stimulus is starting to get absurd. Check out this article about WildBlue trying to position itself for stimulus dollars. They want money from the BTOP program to "develop" a new satellite broadband service. Not "deploy" but...
There's lots of talk about how there's not enough money in the stimulus to lay broadband everywhere, and that's generally true. $7 billion doesn't go all that far when spread across the entire country. But unlike the $4.2 billion set...
Last week I grabbed lunch at the fabulous Black Market Bistro in Kensington, MD with the even more fantabulous Joanne Hovis of Columbia Telecommunications Corporation. She and her team consults with cities wanting to take control of their own broadband...
Everyone I've talked to in DC either agrees with or won't deny that a best-case scenario timeline for broadband dollars to start being distributed as grants or loans is 4-6 months. Here's a quick flyby of what needs to happen...
Here's a basic principle any broadband stimulus dollars should adhere to when deciding what deployments to subsidize: don't stick rural areas with yesterday's broadband. I'm starting to hear a lot of chatter about stimulus dollars going to plain old vanilla...
To anyone in Congress trying to cut funding for rural broadband, ask yourself this: do you care about the future economic viability of the rural communities you represent? If so, how can you justify taking away money from the only...
First off let me get out of the way upfront my belief that there's a lot of good related to broadband in both the House and Senate versions of the stimulus package. Without grants and loans some areas of the...
I continue to be amazed at how many respectable, knowledgeable people still think that DOCSIS 3.0 is the answer to all our broadband problems. Take this blog post by Saul Hansell on NYTimes.com entitled: "Does Broadband Need a Stimulus?" Let's...
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