Verizon Gives Up FCC Suit
After sufficient sound and fury from Verizon’s camp filing suit against the Federal Communications Commission to overturn rules governing a block of 700 MHz wireless spectrum, the telecom has dismissed its suit. Not because of any crisis of conscience, mind you, but because the Court of Appeals refused to hear the case in advance of [...]
Net Neutrality, Now With Less Spin
Have the telecoms and cable companies just abandoned the Net Neutrality fight altogether? It used to be they staged aggressive rhetoric battles, created questionable studies, and pretended to honor Net Neutrality on their own – without legislation. Lately though, they seem to have gone radio silent about the matter and have even abandoned the so-called [...]
AT&T Sets Spectrum Price, Buys Out Aloha
The remaining frontier is in the sky, as you might guess, and AT&T’s buyout of Aloha’s chunk of 700 MHz spectrum in advance of January’s government auction is a strategic move to conquer that frontier. AT&T announced today that they will pay about $2.5 billion for Aloha Partner’s 12 MHz of spectrum, which covers about [...]
Google Challenges Verizon On Open Access
Verizon has been lobbying for changes to the 700MHz wireless auction that would remove an open access requirement permitting subscribers to use any handset they like with that spectrum.Google cited Verizon’s chat with Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin on September 17th about open access, a meeting that ran counter to FCC rules. Consumer Affairs [...]
(Woops) Telecoms Help Make Case For Neutral Net
One of the more parroted talking points against Net Neutrality has been verbalized this way: It’s a solution in search of a problem. Rather snide, really, if you think about it, and is a remark that usually accompanies a brush off to concerns of gatekeeper abuses. As if to ask: "Would we do that to [...]
A Car In Every Garage, Fast Internet On Every PC
It’s a slow, but moving boulder. Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) called on the Bush administration to make a commitment to making high-speed Internet access more widely available to small businesses and all Americans. This involves, he said, changes in regulations to ensure universal broadband access and adequate competition in the marketplace. "To compete and win [...]
Hong Kong’s Broadband Is How Fast?
In case you’re still convinced there’s a true open market in broadband space and the handful of companies running it are sufficient competition for each other, consider this: in Hong Kong, you can get a fiber-to-the-home connection 20 times faster than Verizon’s FiOS connection for about the same price. Gizmodo was quick to point out [...]
Idearc Media Partners With YellowUSA
Idearc Media Corp, home to Superpages.com and publisher of the Verizon Yellow Pages, and YellowUSA.com have signed a distribution agreement that allows Idearc to put its Superpages.com performance-based advertisers on YellowUSA.com’s search platform. "YellowUSA.com’s unique search platform gives Superpages.com advertisers exposure to traffic that is both geographically and categorically targeted," said Eric Chandler, President – [...]
Google Calls Out Verizon Over Lawsuit
Verizon Wireless has sued to prevent the eventual winner of the 700MHz wireless spectrum from conforming with FCC requirements for open devices and applications. A little openness would be a bad thing, if we are to believe Verizon Wireless. Google’s Public Policy blog wants everyone to know just what Verizon thinks of the requirements for [...]
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