5G vs. FTTH: The End of Wire
You can count on rural networks being built out of a variety of wireless technologies in present and near future. As needs for capacity increase, signal processing systems that enable more efficient sharing will keep the rural folks ahead of the tsunami.
DirecTV Now Too Good to be Legal
AT&T’s Monday announcement of the DirecTV Now streaming service drew nearly unanimous applause from tech pundits. This is a new business model for cable TV that harnesses some of the power of the broadband networks to provide personalized sports, entertainment, and news packages to TV viewers. But some are critical, albeit for strange reasons.
Scary Experimentation at 3.5 GHz
Experiments, essential to the scientific process, can advance understanding, but they can also fail without producing any valuable new information. At a time when the mobile broadband industry is thriving…
Streams are Fundamental to Internet Management
Last week, I criticized a blog post by the Center for Democracy and Technology for its failure to regard packet streams as an important component of the Internet: CDT’s decomposition of Internet data…
Does Netflix Have Amnesia?
I’m paying for Netflix and I’m paying for Internet connectivity, why do I care if they pay each other for faster service? Actually why aren’t they? In our instant gratification…
Improving Federal Spectrum Systems
Last Friday, the Information Economy Project (a project of the George Mason University School of Law and Clemson University) held the best little spectrum conference Washington has seen this year….
What is Masa Son talking about? (Part 1: Device-Limited LTE speed)
On Tuesday, March 11th, Sprint Chairman Masa Son gave an interesting and exciting speech on the benefits of merging Sprint with T-Mobile that relied on some rather dramatic empirical claims….
A Broader Vision for Wireless 9-1-1
Before working in public policy, I was a Silicon Valley technology developer. When they learn this, people often ask me if I’m frustrated by the slow pace of policy. I…
Presenting the Technical Facts – High-Band vs. Low-Band Spectrum Deployment in Today’s Spectrum-Constrained Environment
It’s said so often that many have accepted it as a truism: “Low-band spectrum is inherently superior. High-band is inferior, undesirable and expensive.” This is one of things that everybody…
Is a Sprint/T-Mobile Merger in the Cards?
The telecom press is hopping with speculation that Sprint is preparing to make a move on T-Mobile, thanks to an article in the Wall St. Journal: Sprint is studying regulatory…