GTT’s Growing Pains Behind Over-Hyped Congestion Claims
Last Wednesday, I filed a story on claims by Free Press’s “Battle For the Net” that AT&T and other ISPs were causing massive Content Delivery Network (CDN) slowdowns at several…
Internet Slowdown Rumor Greatly Exaggerated
The Guardian ran a story on Monday, June 22nd claiming that major US ISPs are slowing traffic speeds for thousands of users. Given that 70 million US households have broadband…
5G: A Revolution in Networking
A couple of weeks ago I went to the ATIS 5G Symposium in Chicago held in conjunction with the Light Reading Big Telecom Event. ATIS is the chief organization of…
Time Warner Cable will be the first to get hit with a net neutrality complaint
The ink is still wet on the FCC’s Title II Internet regulations, and already there’s a rate regulation complaint: The government’s new net neutrality rules have only been active since…
Unlicensed Spectrum is Important
For part 2 of our spectrum infographic series, we’d like to discuss a little more about why unlicensed spectrum is so important, and what the difference is between LTE-unlicensed and…
How LTE Unlicensed Actually Works
The issue of LTE Unlicensed is a hot topic in spectrum policy circles, but there’s a lot of confusion about the pros and cons of LTE-U technology. So High Tech…
Court Denies Title II Stay
Hot off the wire, the DC Circuit has denied a stay of the Open Internet Order so the new rules go into effect on Friday. They’re already having an effect:…
The Internet Goes Mobile
One of policy wonkdom’s annual milestones is the publication of Mary Meeker’s slide deck on Internet trends (2015 Internet Trends.) Meeker’s slide deck is a massive overview of national and…
Redesigning the telephone network
The telephone network as we’ve known it is on the way out, obviously. Its replacement is a somewhat smarter Internet Protocol network. One part of the transformation is “CORD”: It’s…
Networks on Demand: The Promise of Software-Defined Networking
This is an exciting time for the Internet. You already know some of the reasons for this: Internet use is shifting from desk-potato systems and applications to mobile ones; mobile…