At the FCC, the monopolist calls the kettle black
The FCC and the Obama administration would like to allocate 500 Mhz of spectrum for use by mobile broadband devices. According to the FCC, the demand for mobile broadband services is outstripping...
View ArticleT-Mobile positioning itself for FCC handout
A great post (as usual) from the crew at The Motley Fool describing T-Mobile’s preference for a little Federal Communications Commission interference in auctions. T-Mobile would like the FCC to be able...
View ArticleSpectrum allocation policy should be a lot more straight forward.
Blair Levin stated during the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council’s Broadband and Social Justice in support of incentive auctions as described in S.28, the Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless...
View ArticleThe Spectrum Cliff
Yesterday Federal Communications Commission member Jessica Rosenworcel delivered a speech on spectrum policy. Overall I was not impressed with the speech, but two things stood out. First, Ms....
View ArticleNAB wants to see MetroPCS, T-Mobile transaction go through
Last week the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission urging the agency to bless the merger of MetroPCS and T-Mobile. NAB’s president and...
View ArticleOf course there is no competitive market for spectrum.
A column by The New York Times’ Eduardo Porter argues that the market for spectrum would be more competitive if the Federal Communications Commission would restrict AT&T and Verizon’s access to the...
View ArticleSpectrum: Larry Downes describes the downside of changing a social goal
Last week Larry Downes posted an article on how the Federal Communications Commission seems to have lost its way on broadband policy. With a spectrum frontier that, according to Mr. Downes, is...
View ArticlePai statement on FCC procedures for H Block auction
The following was released today by Ajit Pai: “This summer, I proposed that the H-Block auction start on January 14, 2014,1 and I applaud Chairwoman Clyburn and the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau...
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