Restoring Networks After Sandy
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…
Spectrum Auctions and Sharing Take Center Stage at 4G World
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…
GigaOm Review
Three posts on the GigaOm blog deserve your attention as each one highlights a central issue in network policy. Consider this summary and analysis. Blair Levin, the czar of America’s…
This Mobile Life, Baseball Edition
I’m a big baseball fan, more precisely a big Oakland A’s fan, so being out of town on for the last game of the regular season was a big challenge…
That Pesky Spectrum Crunch
With the election nearing, we’ve entered the busy season for fact-checking. The convention speeches are examined line-by-line, and every claim that’s plainly false, possibly misleading, imprecise, or simply a matter…
Upgrade and Repack; Repeat Forever
The DTV transition increased TV program capacity by three times while reducing TV’s spectrum footprint by half. The method that made his happen has general application. Contrary to some of the claims you’ve heard recently, clearing spectrum by upgrading existing systems and reassigning their excess spectrum is a sustainable practice. In fact, it’s the only sustainable practice. Read on to see why.
The Impractical PCAST Report
Here’s the press statement we issued from ITIF about the PCAST report: Contact: Steve Norton Communications Director 202-626-5758 [email protected] WASHINGTON (July 23, 2012) -Richard Bennett, Senior Research Fellow at the…
Hanging up on the Phone System
I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend The End of the Phone System conference at Wharton in Philadelphia last week as a respondent to one of the papers….
Isenberg Defends “Infinite Spectrum Capacity” Claims
Writing on his blog, David S. Isenberg defends the claims he made to New York Times reporter Brian X. Chen on infinite spectrum: The pervasive misunderstanding of how we use…