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Experimental Radio Applications at the FCC

This summarizes a selection of applications for the Experimental Radio Service received by the FCC during March 2011. These are related to VHF propagation, satellite communications, TV white space, military…

Steven Crowley April 15, 2011 0

What we are reading: 4/14/11

Stearns Privacy Bill Balances Consumer, Corporate Needs – Tech Daily Dose Senate security will use Internet data mining to identify lawmaker threats – The Hill’s Hillicon Valley NCTA: FCC Needs…

Virginia April 14, 2011 0

What we are reading: 4/11/11

FCC adopts rules to drive wireless competition (Newsday) The week ahead: Telecom subpanel takes on the D Block (Hillicon Valley) Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt (Techdirt) Remembering…

Virginia April 11, 2011 0

Smartphone data explosion and spectrum

A recent report on the mobile spectrum crunch (PDF) by Rysavy research and MobileFuture highlighted the urgent need for wireless spectrum to avoid a potentially stagnant mobile broadband market due…

George Ou April 11, 2011 6

The Internet’s First Turning Point

Watching today’s House debate on net neutrality and discussing Internet architecture in a meeting today reminded me that the Internet’s history is very poorly understood, if it’s understood at all….

Richard Bennett April 8, 2011 3

What we are reading: 4/8/11

FCC Net Neutrality | House moves against net neutrality but obstacles remain (Daily Caller) Medvedev criticizes illegal attack on his blog (Reuters) Mass BlackBerry confusion in looming shutdown (CNN.com_ Report:…

Virginia April 8, 2011 0

What we are reading: 4/7/11

Netflix to Stream ‘Mad Men’ (WSJ.com) White House Hosts Spectrum Auction Event (Broadcasting & Cable) House Lawmakers Want Info About Data Breach (Tech Daily Dose) Georgian woman cuts off web…

Virginia April 7, 2011 0

What we are reading: 4/6/11

Understanding Verizon v. FCC (Digital Society) House passes anti-net neutrality resolution, veto likely (ArsTechnica) News bites: Verizon settles GSA overcharging allegations for $93.5M (Hillicon Valley) House Judiciary Could Be First…

Virginia April 6, 2011 0

The irrational infatuation with a la carte TV

I’ve personally never liked the idea of metered Internet service or even small usage caps, but I came to terms with it because different usage tiers means lower broadband prices and higher broadband…

George Ou April 5, 2011 2

What we are reading: 4/5/11

Google Bids $900 Million for Nortel Patent Assets (NY Times) Epsilon Breach: What’s the Value of an Email Address? (ZDNet) Sprint to launch wave-and-pay service in 2011, before AT&T, T-Mobile…

Virginia April 5, 2011 0