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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...
On Wednesday I wrote about the Google-Verizon net neutrality kerfuffle relative to the outcries about its exception of wireless broadband from most open Internet regulations. Today I want to address the other major sticking point among net neutrality supporters, namely...
In all the lamenting about Google and Verizon's attempt at finding an industry-based solution to net neutrality there's been a very important point that's been made but that the significance of which has not been acknowledged, namely that wireless broadband...
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...
While there's nothing new about lamenting over America's falling in the standings relative to broadband in the rest of the world, I continue to be amazed at how that gap seems to be widening, not just in the capacity and...
Below is the abstract I submitted to the Open Technology Initiative's call for papers for their Broadband Act of 2011 invitation-only event in late September. I thought I'd share it with you all as it sums up points I've tried...
During the course of packing and getting ready for our move to Lafayette, LA, I happened to meet someone who works at the Commerce Department. While making small talk, I shared my interest in fiber. The gentlemen had an interesting...
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...
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...
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 there's a lot of talk about how, for good or bad, public broadband competes with private networks. Supporters of public broadband say that the impetus for these projects is a need for greater competition. Critics of public broadband paint...
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...
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