What we are reading: 4/6/11

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…

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…

April 5, 2011 2

What we are reading: 4/5/11

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…

April 5, 2011 0

Misunderstanding Moore’s Law

Tom Evslin, the former head of AT&T’s dial-up Internet services unit in the 1990s, has written a blog post for CircleID that mistates Moore’s Law’s application to networking. There’s a…

April 4, 2011 6

What we are reading: 4/1/11

What we are reading: 4/1/11

Buzzblog: 35 years of ‘Apple’ Fools Day fun (Network World) FCC to Consider Data Roaming at Next Meeting  (National Journal) Bad assumptions lead to false claim about Samsung laptops (Network…

April 1, 2011 0

Now they want Device Neutrality?

Jeff Lawrence, the CEO of PlayOn, wants to add yet another definition to the list of government protected industries in the catch-all concept of “Net Neutrality”.  PlayOn wants to add…

April 1, 2011 4

What we are reading: 3/31/11

What we are reading: 3/31/11

House patent reform bill tracks Senate version closely  (The Hill’s Hillicon Valley) Analysts: AT&T, T-Mobile could face long review   (Washington Post) New online bubble different, but still a bubble  (CNN.com)…

March 31, 2011 0

AT&T and T-Mobile – Interpreting the Spin

AT&T and T-Mobile have collected their press release and associated documents on one web site. A few points caught my eye. “AT&T is now burning through 10 MHz of spectrum…

March 30, 2011 0

Should a Sales Brochure Underlie US Spectrum Policy?

The FCC relies on Cisco’s forecast of mobile-broadband data demand as a basis for spectrum policy. Called the Visual Networking Index, it comes up many times in the National Broadband…

March 29, 2011 2

The Policy Side of the Merger

Last week, I covered the technical side of the AT&T – T-Mobile merger, endeavoring to explain why it’s a good deal for the companies. This week, I’ve written a blog…

March 28, 2011 0