FCC Chairman Wheeler said T-Mobile Binge On service ‘highly innovative and highly competitive'
The T-Mobile Binge On program appears to have received the cautious approval of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler, who this week indicated the offer was “highly innovative and highly competitive.”
Speaking at...
Although specifications for "5G" do not yet exist, aspects are crystallizing, including the ability to exploit frequencies never before used for cellular access; far greater capacity than today’s networks support; data rates faster than 1 gigabit per second; and super-low latency. All of these...
Former Rep. Rick Boucher of Virginia's 9th and the Internet Innovation Alliance talks policy
WASHINGTON – The federal government’s policy regarding the telecom industry is very much in flux. A plethora of issues regarding telecom policies – first raised in an era when the Internet and...
In question is the carrier’s Music Freedom program, which removes data limit for music-streaming services
WASHINGTON – Is the T-Mobile US Music Freedom program breaking the law? Technically, yes, according to FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai, who spoke on the issue at an event hosted by the...
Sprint chief network officer talks balance of security and access, along with innovation
Sprint, in a heated battle with AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile US and Verizon Wireless for market share, has been a strong advocate for competition in the domestic wireless space and, in a new...
WASHINGTON – Net neutrality may have been grudgingly accepted among Internet service providers and lobbyists, but the Title II order of the net neutrality rules remains an issue of contention.
As Internet Innovation Alliance Honorary Chair and former Virginia Congressman Rick Boucher explained to RCR...
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...
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...
Discord among FCC commissioners; Pai sites Kafka while O’Rielly defends AT&T’s actions
The Federal Communications Commission today announced plans to fine AT&T Mobility $100 million for misleading customers about its unlimited data plan offering.
Specifically, FCC investigators allege that AT&T “severely slowed down the data speeds...
The Federal Communication Commission's net neutrality rules became law today, after a federal court rejected an industry attempt to avoid Title II regulation. However, Internet service providers have said they will continue to fight, and it looks like they will have some help from...
Proposed funding requires strict regulations related to FCC regulatory power
WASHINGTON – The proposed federal budget recently released by the U.S. House of Representatives cuts Federal Communications Commission funding and effectively puts the brakes on the net neutrality debate, at least until the legal challenges are resolved.
The...
Argument that FCC has essentially reclassified VoIP services
WASHINGTON – Net neutrality is rapidly becoming an issue that is very good for lawyers. On June 8, TechFreedom, CARI.net and self-described leading Internet entrepreneurs Jeff Pulver, Scott Banister, Charles Giancarlo, David Frankel and Wendell Brown filed...
Petitioners ask higher court to decide on net neutrality
WASHINGTON – The joint petitioners seeking a stay on the implementation of net neutrality rules, which go into effect next month, have appealed the FCC's denial with a higher court.
The case has been brought before the...
The most prominent Kevin Martins on Facebook right now are a musician, a basketball player and a cake designer, but that's likely to change soon. Former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin will join Facebook to manage the social media giant's mobile and global...
WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission’s decision to kill petitions against its open Internet order was met with praise from supporters and silence from groups that challenged the reclassification of the Internet as a public utility.
Pantelis Michalopoulos, who heads the Telecom, Internet and Media...
Coders podcast:
In this episode of Coders, I'm talking to Joseph Hall, chief technologist for the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington, D.C.
Hall points out some policy items to be aware of when it comes to privacy and building apps, plus the current...
Calls FCC net neutrality decision ‘so damn important’
WASHINGTON – Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, remains confident in net neutrality regulations and brushed off legal challenges to the open Internet order.
Wheeler was asked at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York City...
Push for transparency or punishment for net neutrality?
WASHINGTON – Congressional Democrats and Republicans rolled out separate bills pushing reform of the Federal Communications Commission as part of the ongoing political fight over net neutrality.
Republican Chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Rep. Greg...
US Telecom Association challenging FCC’s net neutrality rules
WASHINGTON – In a move that surprised nobody, trade group US Telecom Association, which represents carriers Verizon and AT&T among others, filed suit against the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet order less than 12 hours after the...
Verizon chief: Congress needs to 're-take responsibility’ for Internet from FCC
WASHINGTON – Verizon Communications CEO Lowell McAdam recently pressed federal lawmakers to rein in the Federal Communications Commission, the regulatory influence of which he wrote has reached “absurd new levels.”
McAdam, in a three-page letter...
ATLANTA – Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure added a bit of “big carrier” luster to the CEO panel at this week’s Competitive Carriers Association Global Expo event, as well as taking the stage for the first time in front of mobile operators increasingly reliant on...
Spectrum auctions, net neutrality and show expansion
ATLANTA – RCR Wireless News caught up with Competitive Carriers Association President and CEO Steve Berry on the show floor of this week’s Global Expo event in Atlanta. Berry touched on a number of topics impacting the organization...
Verizon, AT&T, CenturyLink and other members want net neutrality review
The US Telecom Association, which counts carriers Verizon Communications, AT&T, Alaska Communications and many others as members, on March 23 asked a federal appeals court for a review of the Federal Communication Commission’s recent order...
The Competitive Carriers Association’s upcoming Global Expo event, like many of CCA’s past events, will surely not lack for topics.
Since CCA’s last event in September, the mobile telecom space has witnessed a record-breaking spectrum auction, postponement of the highly anticipated 600 MHz incentive auction...
