That Pesky Spectrum Crunch

With the election nearing, we’ve entered the busy season for fact-checking. The convention speeches are examined line-by-line, and every claim that’s plainly false, possibly misleading, imprecise, or simply a matter…

September 5, 2012 0

Obama vs. Romney – The Mobile Game!

Some Friday fun … Are you suffering from stress due to the upcoming election?  Do you want to take your friends who support the other guy by the throat and…

August 24, 2012 0

Upgrade and Repack; Repeat Forever

The DTV transition increased TV program capacity by three times while reducing TV’s spectrum footprint by half. The method that made his happen has general application. Contrary to some of the claims you’ve heard recently, clearing spectrum by upgrading existing systems and reassigning their excess spectrum is a sustainable practice. In fact, it’s the only sustainable practice. Read on to see why.

August 8, 2012 3

Spectrum and Wishful Thinking

There are two very good pieces on spectrum today.  Jonathan Salter at Mobile Future has a written one of them (Spectrum Sharing and the Elusive Silver Bullet) in Fierce Broadband Wireless. …

July 30, 2012 0

The Impractical PCAST Report

Here’s the press statement we issued from ITIF about the PCAST report: Contact: Steve Norton Communications Director 202-626-5758 [email protected] WASHINGTON (July 23, 2012) -Richard Bennett, Senior Research Fellow at the…

July 23, 2012 0

Peter Rysavy Addresses Complexities of Spectrum Management

Engineer Peter Rysavy, who has been a contributor to High Tech Forum, recently released an important paper “Mobile Network Design and Deployment: How Incumbent Operators Plan for Technology Upgrades and…

July 2, 2012 1

Van Schewick’s View of Net Neutrality and Quality of Service

Network Quality of Service (QoS) is the technical issues that lurks behind the policy issue of net neutrality. While there are many subtle variations of net neutrality, the concept as…

June 14, 2012 0

A ‘Competitive’ Alliance in Name Only

The language in the policy debate over the future of broadband ranges from the imprecise to the Orwellian. An “open” Internet, for example, means to some an uncensored one, to…

June 14, 2012 0