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So it’s official: Verizon and Google have (sort of) agreed on a way to break the deadlock on “net neutrality” – the highly charged question of when (if ever) Internet providers may differentiate the quality of service among users. For the first time, companies with very different interests have … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Broadband, Google, network neutrality, Verizon | Category: Internet |
 Leave a commentA big question these days for smartphone users is whether telecommunications providers will continue to offer “all you can eat” data plans or switch to charging by the megabyte. The more important issue–at least from … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: 4G, AT&T, Comcast, Federal Communications Commission, smartphones, Verizon | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentCongress requires the FCC to prepare an annual report on the state of competition in the cell phone industry – the 13th edition came out in January 2009. And with the unveiling of the 14th report scheduled for May 20, Verizon Wireless is making public its views on … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: 4G, Clearwire, competition, FCC, Leap, LTE, MetroPCS, Verizon | Category: Quick Takes, Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentThe wireless communications revolution runs on money, technology and spectrum. The money and technology fronts seem in fine shape, thank you. And we are guardedly optimistic that the Obama administration will soon help to ease the spectrum bottleneck by auctioning off some underutilized electromagnetic real estate, raising billions of dollars … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: AT&T, FCC, SkyTerra, Spectrum, Verizon, wireless | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a comment…the Wall Street Journal op-ed on high-speed Internet service, co-authored by the often-warring CEOs of Google and Verizon. Messrs. Schmidt and Seidenberg laud the FCC’s ambitious broadband plan – in particular, the focus on promoting innovative uses of the net in key areas like health care, the goal … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Broadband, Eric Schmidt, FCC, Google, Internet, Ivan Seidenberg, Manhattan Project, Verizon | Category: Internet |
Leave a commentApologies to Tina Turner. But, yes, like the chair of the FCC (see our Jan. 12th post), we believe that discrimination does have a lot to do with the net neutrality debate. That agreement, though, is the beginning of the debate, not the end, because there is hardly a … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Dennis Carlton, FCC, Gary Becker, Google, Hal Singer, Net Neutrality, Nicholas Economides, Robert Litan, telecommunications policy, Verizon | Category: Net Neutrality |
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