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…
Van Schewick’s View of Net Neutrality and Quality of Service
Network Quality of Service (QoS) is the technical issues that lurks behind the policy issue of net neutrality. While there are many subtle variations of net neutrality, the concept as…
A ‘Competitive’ Alliance in Name Only
The language in the policy debate over the future of broadband ranges from the imprecise to the Orwellian. An “open” Internet, for example, means to some an uncensored one, to…
Spectrum Talk
But they are not enough to solve wireless capacity problems—not when nearly half the American adult population owns a smartphone and data usage continues to explode. For example, AT&T’s 30,000 Wi-Fi hotspot network is the largest provided by any U.S. wireless carrier, but it offloads a mere 1% of all the mobile data traffic we carry …