Broadcast Spectrum or Broadband Spectrum? We Want Both

Release Date 31 Mar, 2010 in Wired News

 
   
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FCC to Consider How to Fund Internet Use and Rules on Roaming

BusinessWeek - Todd Shields - 31 Mar, 2010
March 31 (Bloomberg) -- Federal regulators said they plan to consider how to redirect a $4.6 billion federal fund that helps pay for ...

Broadcast Spectrum or Broadband Spectrum? We Want Both

Wired News - Eliot Van Buskirk - 31 Mar, 2010
Television broadcasters are crying foul over the FCC's recently announced vision for the nation's wireless broadband plan, ...

FCC begins rollout of national broadband policies

Washington Post - Cecilia Kang - 31 Mar, 2010
The Federal Communications Commission will begin the long process of creating regulations out of its national broadband plan, starting with ...

IPhone-Weary TV Broadcasters Gear Up to Fight FCC for Airwaves

BusinessWeek - Kelly Riddell - 31 Mar, 2010
March 31 (Bloomberg) -- TV broadcasters are getting ready for a fight over a US government attempt to redistribute airwaves and help ...

Unleashing American Broadband

Wall Street Journal - 31 Mar, 2010
By ERIC SCHMIDT Innovation in technology and business is one of America's major comparative advantages in the global information economy. ...

Google Goes Evil? Gets in Bed With Verizon

Huffington Post (blog) - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
Tuesday's Wall Street Journal features an Op-ed by the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, and the CEO of Verizon, Ivan Seidenberg, about the importance of ...

Google, Verizon CEOs advocate for light Net regs

CNET - Marguerite Reardon - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
Google and Verizon Communications have teamed up once again to ask the Federal Communications Commission to take it easy on regulating ...

Google, Verizon tell FCC to ease off on broadband regulation

Washington Post (blog) - Cecilia Kang - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
Google and Verizon Communications came out yet again as bosom buddies, this time in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal calling for "minimal regulation" ...

AT&T Asks FCC to Change Its Mind Over Harbinger

GigaOm (blog) - Stacey Higginbotham - 31 Mar, 2010
AT&T today filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission asking it to reconsider ...

TV stations quail before all-conquering iPhone

Salon - Andrew Leonard - 31 Mar, 2010
Pity the poor broadcast TV station owner. Only 10 percent of US households now receive their TV signal over the air. ...

FCC Expected To Cover Gateways, CableCards At April 21 Open Meeting

Multichannel News - Todd Spangler - 31 Mar, 2010
The Federal Communications Commission's inquiry into requiring all TV providers to adopt ...

Verizon: Reclassifying broadband would cause 'years of court battles'

The Hill (blog) - Kim Hart - 31 Mar, 2010
The FCC will wind up in court if it attempts to reclassify broadband as a way to apply net neutrality regulations to the ...

FCC's spectrum proposals under fire on all sides

Rethink Wireless - Caroline Gabriel - 31 Mar, 2010
The spectrum proposals included in the FCC's National Broadband Plan are coming under fire from all sides. The two major telcos, ...

FCC to propose changes to USF and set-top boxes

The Hill (blog) - Kim Hart - 31 Mar, 2010
The Federal Communications Commission has a full plate to tackle at its next open meeting. In its tentative agenda for ...

Plan Would Help Subsidize Access To Broadband

89.3 KPCC - Laura Sydell - 31 Mar, 2010
In addition to expanding Internet access to rural areas, the National Broadband Plan is aiming to make access more affordable for those in low-income ...

Google/Verizon want "minimal regulation" (just sometimes)

Ars Technica - Matthew Lasar - 31 Mar, 2010
The Google/Verizon "can't we get along" roadshow on government oversight of the Internet went into ...

National Broadband Plan: Trapped in the Legacy

TMC Net - Carl Ford - 31 Mar, 2010
I ran a call yesterday about the National Broadband Plan written by the FCC as mandated in the stimulus package by congress. ...

Broadcasters already battling FCC's spectrum plan

FierceWireless - Phil Goldstein - 31 Mar, 2010
Broadcasters wary of the FCC's national broadband plan before it was released are now engaged in a fierce lobbying battle over the plan's call for ...

The Spectrum Crisis in America

Going WiMax - 31 Mar, 2010
With the expansion of wireless nationwide, it is inevitable that more and more airwaves are being used leading to less available spectrum space. ...

National Broadband Plan Recommends Uniform Pole Attachment Rates

Mondaq News Alerts (registration) - 31 Mar, 2010
This month, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) finally released Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan (download a PDF of the plan by ...

Broadcasters Gear Up For Fight With FCC (T, AAPL, NXST)

Benzinga - Ed Liston - 31 Mar, 2010
Bloomberg reports that the US government is trying to redistribute airwaves to help wireless carriers manage the increased traffic from bandwidth consuming ...

Video: How fast is your broadband?

Oromo Index - 31 Mar, 2010
Consumer columnist David Lazarus tested two services the Federal Communications Commission provides for Internet users to measure their broadband connection ...

Why Google & Verizon Won't Be BFFs Forever

GigaOm (blog) - Stacey Higginbotham - 31 Mar, 2010
Google and Verizon have teamed up once again, with its CEOs penning a jointly authored opinion ...

Telecoms Attack FCC Broadband Regulations, SkyTerra Acquisition

Satellite Today (subscription) - Jeffrey Hill - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
[Satellite News 03-30-10] Google, Verizon Communications and AT&T have joined forces to challenge the reach of certain US Federal Communications Commission ...

The Illusion of Digital Inclusion at the FCC

Black Web 2.0 - navarrow wright - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
Over the last few weeks there has been a lot of talk about digital inclusion â€" the opposite side, and some may say the answer to, ...

Verizon, Google Play Nice For WSJ Editorial

BroadbandReports.com - Karl Bode - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
Sure, Verizon lobbyists are busily lobbying Uncle Sam to push the government to investigate Google for privacy and antitrust violations, and Verizon pays ...

FCC's Broadband Plan Tells Good Story but Remains Puzzling

The Progress & Freedom Foundation (press release) (blog) - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
WASHINGTON DC â€" The Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan has a positive story to tell about the state of America's broadband ...

National Broadband Plan Wants to Increase Funding for 'Public Media'

TMC Net - Paula Bernier - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
Congress should consider increasing funding to public media for broadband-based distribution ...

Google, Verizon CEOs: Why we like the FCC broadband plan

ZDNet (blog) - Sam Diaz - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg apparently are fans of the FCC's National Broadband Plan. The two co-wrote an opinion piece in ...

Former FCC Commissioner Says Leave Broadband to Business, Not Government

BroadbandBreakfast.com - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
WASHINGTON, March 30, 2010 â€" Deborah Taylor Tate, a former commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, lauds some of the agency's National ...

 

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