CCA's Steve Berry discusses competition in the wireless market, rules for the upcoming FCC auction and the duopolistiic nature of the space
WASHINGTON – The Competitive Carriers Association, a Washington, D.C.-based trade association, advocates for wireless regional and independent providers outside of the two largest...
WASHINGTON – In a tongue-in-check effort to highlight a perceived lack of competition in the broadband space, a group of telecom companies and trade groups launched a faux pharmaceutical campaign for Competify.
The campaign, which included a full-page ad in The New York Times, notes...
WASHINGTON – A new poll by research group Gallup indicates that most Americans keep their smartphone with them every second of their life.
According to the poll, which included 16,000 people across all 50 states, 81% said they kept their smartphone with them at all...
Telecom regulator ARCEP expects to award the spectrum by year end
France formally launched plans toward auctioning 700 MHz spectrum band licenses, according to local press.
Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron and Secretary of State Axelle Lemaire are said to have approved telecommunications regulator ARCEP's proposed conditions...
Singapore regulators are poised to do what the Federal Communications Commission is reluctant to do in the U.S. In order to entice a fourth mobile operator to enter the market, Singapore’s Infocomm Development Authority is proposing to lower the reserve price for a new...
WASHINGTON – In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit in Manhattan has ruled that the $450 million antitrust suit against technology giant Apple will stand. The lawsuit, which was originally brought by the U.S. Department of Justice for violations of antitrust...
FCC found TracFone violated device-unlocking rules for Lifeline customers
TracFone Wireless ran afoul of the Federal Communications Commission’s device unlocking requirements tied to its Lifeline service offerings that could cost the prepaid provider more than $83 million.
The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau found that TracFone violated FCC...
FCC looks to gauge competition level between telecom carriers; big guys say it’s all good, little guys, not so much
As it does every year, the Federal Communications Commission is taking comments for its Mobile Wireless Competition Report. So far, telecom carrier comments fall along...
Researchers call out Google for skewing search results in its own favor amid European Union antitrust probe
WASHINGTON – Researchers from Columbia Law School and Harvard Business School wrote in a new paper that Internet search giant Google skews search results in its own favor.
“While...
Pai and Wheeler split on how to pay for expanding broadband into underserved America
WASHINGTON – From a podium in Omaha, Neb., FCC Republican Commissioner Ajit Pai, announced his vision of bringing broadband Internet services to rural America.
Contrary to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler’s...
It’s finally done. As of 2 a.m. the EU has brokered a deal to ban all EU roaming charges by 2017. The deal is part of the Europe 2020 initiative and belongs to an effort entitled Connected Continent. The Latvians led this compromise among the...
The Serbian government has launched an initiative to privatize state-controlled telecommunications company Telekom Srbija. According to local reports, the government asked the Ministry of Economy and the Privatization Agency to define a plan to privatize the operator.
In February, Telekom Srbija launched a process to...
Name checks Uber: 'The largest taxi company in the country doesn’t own any vehicles …'
WASHINGTON – Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler late last week delivered an address to the Brookings Institution, a well known liberal-leaning Washington, D.C., think tank, highlighting the success of the...
CWA says Verizon wants to cut pay to employees while top five execs earned $44M last year
Verizon Communications' opening contract negotiation gamut of offering raises has been blasted by Communication Workers of America reps as a “smokescreen” designed to make a “media splash.”
Negotiations for...
WASHINGTON – When someone actively uses the Internet, it is a consensual relationship of giving data in exchange for services, but what about the passive collection of data on location, health and activities by devices?
Federal Communications Commission's Commissioner Michael O’Rielly discussed so-called human analytics during a...
WASHINGTON – “The Internet is not a human right,” said Michael O’Rielly, Federal Communications Commission commissioner, in an address to the Internet Innovation Alliance panel.
O’Rielly made the remark as part of a presentation titled "The Role for Regulators in an Expanding Broadband Economy." His comment seemed to...
FCC circulates draft of 600 MHz auction rules counter to T-Mobile US push
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler today said he has circulated a draft Order on Reconsideration connected to the upcoming 600 MHz incentive auction that maintains the previously stated 30 megahertz of...
Lobbying groups say, 'feed the beast,' as rules, reserve being set for spectrum auction
WASHINGTON – As the wrangling over rules for the upcoming spectrum auction continues, most stakeholders agree on the acute need for more spectrum, but not on how federal regulators should divvy...
Commercial Network Services asks for FCC intervention in Time Warner Cable interconnect dispute
Beloved service provider Time Warner Cable appears to have earned the dubious distinction of being the first company to garner a complaint for violating recently implemented net neutrality rules.
Commercial Network Services, which...
The French government affirmed the potential acquisition would affect investment in the mobile market and planned spectrum auction
France's second-largest telecommunications operator Numericable-SFR has made an offer to buy smaller rival Bouygues Telecom for approximately $11.4 billion in cash, according to a report by the...
Federal subsidy expansion gets FCC nod to include rural broadband Internet for low-income Americans
WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission appears set to go ahead with plans to offer $1.7 billion in subsidies to connect poor Americans to the Internet.
On June 18, the FCC voted...
Goal of wireless legislation is to reallocate federal spectrum for commercial uses
WASHINGTON – On June 18, a group of Republican senators reintroduced the Wireless Innovation Act, which is meant to reallocate federally held wireless spectrum to push innovation.
Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Kelly Ayotte...
FCC wants to reserve UHF channels for unlicensed use, NAB cries foul
WASHINGTON – The FCC has proposed that, after the next incentive auction, one UHF channel in each market be set aside for unlicensed white space devices like wireless microphones.
The move signals an acknowledgement...
Quarter-billion-dollar investment is coming from FCC’s Connect America Fund
WASHINGTON – Frontier Communications has announced the receipt of $238 million from the Federal Communications Commission’s Connect America Fund to expand broadband Internet access to 1.3 million rural Americans across 28 states.
Dan McCarthy, Frontier president and...
