Tag Archives: broadband
Net Neutrality: The Market for Messaging
We are bombarded with messaging. Political messaging. Commercial messaging. All designed to get us to illicit a certain response, namely to buy a product or support a package. Net neutrality is no different. Large internet portals like Google and Facebook … Continue reading
#Liberals show naivete about the internet
In an opinion piece published last week in The Washington Post, Senator Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, and former Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler made the argument that planned attempts by current FCC … Continue reading
Posted in broadband, Democrats, Internet, Uncategorized
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Congress nudges FCC back to its primary mission
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve S.J. Res 34, a resolution that invalidates privacy rules enacted by the Federal Communications Commission last December. The rules imposed common carrier privacy restrictions on broadband providers. Opponents of the Commission’s … Continue reading
#Broadband infrastructure: So far I don’t see Congressional Republicans riding to Trump’s rescue
The markets took a beating yesterday; a one percent correction that even saw broadband stocks like Comcast (-1.09%), T-Mobile (-1.01%), and Sprint (-1.74%) take a hit. Ironically, while Verizon and AT&T were down also, (-.42% and -.75%, respectively), their decreases … Continue reading
Speaking to bad perception of broadband and infrastructure
A couple mornings ago while watching C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, a caller argued forcefully that President Donald Trump should not treat broadband as infrastructure. Infrastructure, according to the caller, included roads, bridges, airports, harbors, but not broadband. The caller didn’t go … Continue reading
For minority communities,increased broadband deployment should be about production
I just finished reading through some of the testimony presented earlier today during a hearing before the U.S. Senate’s subcommittee on technology, communications, innovation, and the internet. The subcommittee’s focus this morning was on the economic value of spectrum, the … Continue reading
Posted in apps, big data, broadband, Federal Communications Commission, Internet, Political Economy, spectrum
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Using broadband to create a data trade
Proponents of connecting more people to the internet via a high-speed connection should consider the, “and …what else?” response from consumers who have not yet taken the broadband plunge. The violation of data privacy these consumers hear about may be … Continue reading
Posted in apps, big data, broadband, data brokers, e-commerce, Internet, Political Economy, wireless
Tagged apps, big data, broadband, data, data brokers, data mining
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Communications networks as platforms for individuality. Politicians should take note
It’s interesting how disconnectedly connected society is becoming with technology. It still trips me out how two people can walk or drive together with their noses stuck in an iPhone. It is the great thing about broadband. High-speed access to … Continue reading
Posted in American society, broadband, democracy, Donald Trump, Internet, social networks, society, T-Mobile, technology, two-party system
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Pai’s focus on local government bottlenecks to #broadband is spot on
Today, Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, announced the formation of a broadband deployment advisory committee. The committee will advise the Commission on public policy that encourages additional broadband deployment. One of those roadblocks to deployment identified in … Continue reading
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Congress should require the FCC stick to spectrum issues
The Federal Communications Commission should stick to managing spectrum, a scarce resource that fuels next generation wireless communications networks. Managing the distribution of scarce resources and getting that resource into activity that provides the highest economic value is among government’s … Continue reading
