Senate State of Wireless Communications Hearing
The Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet is beginning its hearing on the State of Wireless Communications shortly, and I’ll be live-blogging it here. The subject matter is…
Exploiting Boston
Predictably, the terrorist attack of the Boston Marathon brought the hucksters out of the woodwork more or less immediately. One of the first stories – and still the worst one,…
Global Broadband Woes
The New York Times reports that broadband networks in Germany fail to deliver advertised speeds: BERLIN — A government study released Thursday supports what many German consumers have long suspected:…
PBS News Hour Broadband Series
Quick note: I discuss broadband networks on the PBS News Hour today (Thursday.) They’re doing a three-part series on the state of U. S. broadband with a lot of focus…
How to Kill Wi-Fi
As we all know, Wi-Fi is a killer technology that’s been enormously important to innovators, consumers, and the Internet. It’s a very humble technology that only tries to replace Ethernet…
A Tale of Two Hearings
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…
Spectrum – All Options Essential, Including Incentive Auctions
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…
The Charlatan’s Cartels
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…