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As iPhone reveals weakness of Edge network, a call for a national wireless network

The sale of the iPhone is a publicity event of such gargantuan proportions that anyone with a reasonable hook to the story can use media hunger for all things iPhone to air their particular agenda. Enter Reed Hundt, former chairman of the FCC and front man for Frontline Wireless. The...

Tags: Mobile/wireless, FCC

Blog posts 2007-07-04

On net neutrality, Reed Hundt speaks truth to power

That's former FCC chair Reed Hundt. I think he looks a bit like Dr. McCoy from the original "Star Trek."But to the subject at hand. Ever wish you could be in two places at once? Last week was one of those times for me.I was at the CTIA...

Tags: Reed Hundt

Blog posts 2006-04-10

Reed Hundt says, make the Internet a top priority

Reed Hundt says, make the Internet a top priorityIs he right? Ha.When have collectivists ever been right?Ok, here's a suggestion. Go back and ask the citizens of Munster whether collectivism works. Or ask the French who starved during the time of the Colbert-Mercantile fiasco. Or ask...

Tags: OK Here, for-profit, Reed Hundt

Discussion threads 2006-04-04

Reed Hundt says, make the Internet a top priority

Appearing like a ghost of Internet past, Reed Hundt showed up at Freedom2Connect to defend his record and attack the incumbent's assumptions.His point was that the Internet is a public good, that fast, ubiquitous access to it is an economic essential, and it would be incredibly cheap to deliver that...

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Blog posts 2006-04-04

Additional Resources

Julius Genachowski & The FCC: A Failure to Communicate?

So Julius Genachowski is to be Barack Obama's choice to head the Federal Communications Commission. Genachowski and president-elect Obama were classmates at the Harvard Law School. And Obama was his boss back then, too, at the Harvard Law Review. GigaOm...

Tags: FCC, Barack Obama, Broadband, Ticketmaster Corp., Interactive Corp., Wireless, Federal Government, Internet, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Wireless And Mobility, Government, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-13

FCC opts for open access -- not just that open

The Federal Communications Commission passed open access rules for next year's auction of 700MHz spectrum, giving a partial victory to Google and a decided slapdown to Verizon and other cell phone companies. The agency approved rules proposed by chairman Kevin J. Martin that will let customers use any phone and...

Tags: Google, FCC

Blog posts 2007-08-01

FCC to decide fate of valuable wireless spectrum

The FCC will soon decide how much radio spectrum to reserve for a state-of-the-art emergency response system for police, firefighters and ambulance crews, The Wall Street Journal reports With broadcasters freeing up analog spectrum as they convert to digital, a battle is brewing between commercial interests and those that...

Tags: FCC, Mobile/wireless, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-04-06

The new commons is right here

The other day I wrote about how libraries are being forced out of the commons by IP policies. If you read that, you might consider me a pessimist. In fact, the last decade has, in the words of former FCC chair Reed Hundt, seen the largest expansion of the commons...

Tags: commons

Blog posts 2006-05-11

The Hundt for better business models

Capitalism is not a business model. It's a description of economic systems which can feature many business models. Capitalists do what works. Right now open source works, open networks work, open spectrum works. These provide the greatest good for the greatest number of people, and businesses. Arguments in Washington against...

Tags: business model

Blog posts 2006-04-07

Congress calls for emergency comm upgrades

While some in Congress are pushing for massive funding - $5 billion a year - to upgrade equipment for first responders, some experts are pushing for something more: a national wireless data network, with dedicated frequencies, that first repsonders could plug into after an emergency, Associated Press reports. ...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Government Accountability Office Communications

Blog posts 2005-09-14

Kerry's broadband policy plans emerging

Kerry's broadband policy plans emergingKerry's broadband tax emergingI can see it now, John Kerry's going to further tax us to help those that are on welfare. It's bad enough that we have to subsidize their phone bills. Now he wants us to subsidize their internet access? [b]Vote against Kerry and...

Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, broadband, cable, Kerry, horn, John Kerry

Discussion threads 2004-04-21