Rural America Needs Advanced Services & Competition – Part 2
[Editor's note: Mr. South's first article provided a brief history of AT&T as as a regulated monopoly and the forces that drove to the 1984 break-up of "Ma Bell". Part 2 examines the aftermath of...
View ArticleRural America Needs Advanced Services & Competition – Part 1
The above title is by no means an original thought; this belief has been documented in policy statements and legislation at the Federal and individual state level many times over the years. Technology...
View ArticleFCC Net Neutrality Proposal Stirs Up Controversy- Reclassify or Not?
On May 15th the FCC Commissioners narrowly voted to approve a framework for rules that would create an Internet fast lane, while trying to patch up the loopholes that would make that fast lane...
View ArticleCongressional leaders ask FCC to Streamline Wireless Broadband Infrastructure...
On May 29th, House Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom...
View ArticleFCC Acts to Improve Rural Broadband Service with $100M Fund- Census Blocks...
Roughly 10% of the U.S., mostly in remote rural areas, is eligible to take advantage of $100 million the Federal Communications Commission is allocating for improvements in rural broadband service. The...
View ArticleNetwork Neutrality is Dead: Netflix deal with AT&T; VZ Throttling- FCC?
Netflix announced Tuesday that it had agreed to pay AT&T for a direct “peering” connection to AT&T’s network. The two companies arranged the deal this past May and have been working since then...
View Article2015 RTIME Round-Up – Cautious Optimism
“Economic development is at the heart of what we do,” said Dave Osborne of VTX, a rural broadband operator serving a large swath of south Texas. Osborne was part of a panel at NTCA’s 2015 RTIME that...
View ArticleProperty Assessed Broadband – A Bottoms Up Way to Build Community & Broadband
Something someone said at the 2015 Calix User Group was the inspiration for a new approach to funding rural broadband, described in this article. Perhaps it was Kelley, Drey and Warren partner Tom...
View ArticleGoogle Spurring FTTH Deployment in the Former Valley of the Heart’s Delight
After seemingly bypassing the hometowns of many of its employees last January, Google Fiber reappeared this Fall in the cities of San Jose and Santa Clara. It may not be news they are seriously...
View ArticleFCC Completes Reverse Auction as Forward Auction Looms Large
Executive Summary: The FCC concluded the first round of its two-part spectrum incentive Auction 1000 on Wednesday, June 29, 2016. Broadcasters sold some or all of their spectrum usage rights in...
View ArticleDSRC or 5G?
Which radio technology will win the day in the autonomous vehicle future; DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communications) or 5G (or 5GAA (PDF))? As Brian Daugherty, CTO of the Motor and Equipment...
View ArticlePuerto Rico & US Virgin Islands to receive up to $77 million from FCC to...
Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands are in line to receive up to $77 million from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to restore communications after hurricane Maria made most of the...
View ArticleIf a Cable Falls in the Street, Does Anyone Care How It Happened?
Yes, the above title is a play on words about the philosophical question about the tree falling in a forest and whether it makes noise. A little more than a week ago, telecommunications’ cables fell to...
View ArticleRedl Highlights Rural Broadband in First Address as NTIA Chief at Telecoms...
“Creative Destruction” and Net Neutrality covered by panels of economists, lawyers David Redl, the newly-minted Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Administrator of...
View ArticleRural Broadband PPP Infrastructure Opportunities
The following is the transcript of an interview with Ross Lieberman, SVP of Government Affairs for the American Cable Association, at NCTC’s WEC18 conference in San Antonio. Lieberman talks about...
View ArticlePai: Closing Digital Divide is FCC’s “Top Policy Priority”
CAF II Auctions, Reduced Regulations Are Highlights of FCC Chairman’s Address to ACA Summit Closing the digital divide and reducing regulations were hallmarks of Federal Communications Commission...
View ArticleFCC Commissioners Talk USF, Infrastructure at ACA Summit
Federal Communications Commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Michael O’Rielly participated in a panel discussion at the American Cable Association’s 25th Annual Summit. Broadband infrastructure and the...
View ArticleU.S. Small Business Administration: Government’s “Best Kept Secret”
“Don’t be afraid to question underlying standard procedures.” This was part of the message delivered by Michael Hershey, Associate Administrator of the United States Small Business Administration...
View ArticleTIA Spectrum Policy Forum Part I: NTIA Chief Redl Cites “Creative...
“The days of redeploying spectrum from one use to another are over, for the most part,” according to David Redl, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information. “There are no more...
View ArticleTIA Spectrum Policy Forum Part II: Follow-Up Panel Notes Real-World Progress...
A group of industry experts provided updates on market and technology developments related to 5G deployment at the Telecommunications Industry Association’s (TIA) June 21 Policy Forum, “Federal...
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