Happy New Year. Two tech policy hearings toward the end of the year exhibited a common theme despite very different subject matters: a Congressional hearing before the Communications and Technology…

In recent months, various articles have advanced the idea that there is no spectrum crisis. The articles assert that if operators invested more in their networks, that they wouldn’t need…

OK, this is almost too easy to bother with, but I can’t help myself. Last week a former journalist with a book to sell wrote an Op-Ed for the New…

I had occasion to hear FCC Democratic Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel’s remarks on Tuesday at the Silicon Flatirons conference on spectrum in Washington.  She is the kind of fresh voice whose…

See my post on ITIF’s Innovation Files blog in the transition from the telephone network of the past, AKA “TDM” to the IP network of the present and future. Three…

One of the unfortunate consequences of events like the Northeast “Frankenstorm” is the speed with which they’re exploited for various kinds of gain. When food and water are short, vendors…

Peter Rysavy files a report from 4G World in Chcago for Information Week on two of the major spectrum issues. The first is the FCC’s upcoming spectrum incentive auction: In…