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FCC partially rules for Google on open networks
A partial victory for those making the case for open wireless networks (Carterfone 2).
F.C.C. Hands Google a Partial Victory – New York Times
The Federal Communications Commission moved cautiously Tuesday toward creating a more open national wireless broadband network, handing a partial victory to Google, which was pushing for more competition in cellphone services.The agency approved [...]
A whole new way of thinking about mobile handsets
True to form, Google is proposing a radical rethink of the entire basis of the wireless industry. And it is putting real money behind its ideas. All that is in the way seems to be the FCC.
Google Pushes for Rules to Aid Wireless Plans – New York Times
“When you go to Best Buy [...]
Google proposes real-time auction for efficient spectrum use
Google has proposed to the FCC that instead of getting into long-term contracts for allocating spectrum, companies buying spectrum should be free to resell the spectrum in real-time auctions. This would probably not involve human beings in protracted auction negotiations but rather negotiations between devices in real-time. Since FCC’s auction is done at the wholesale [...]
Study: Spectrum auctions prone to anti-competitive behavior
A new study filed with the USA’s telecoms regulator, the FCC, reports that the regulator’s use of auctions for assigning spectrum licenses could be subject to anti-competitive behavior by incumbent carriers. The announcement about the new study came from M2Z, a company which is seeking to build its own wireless network. Read more.
Good practice in telecom reform
Friend of LIRNEasia, Sherille Ismail (Senior Counsel, Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis of the FCC) has written an excellent review of theWorld Bank’s “Information and Communications for Development 2006: Global Trends and Policies,” concluding with:
“The telecommunications sector has performed in a spectacular fashion
over the past two decades, bringing modern technologies at affordable
prices to [...]
US about to be overtaken by Slovenia in broadband
Former Chair of the FCC, Bill Kennard, calls for a broad national debate on how get more broadband connections, especially in rural America. One of his two recommendations is for the adoption of “reverse auctions” or least-cost subsidy auctions for the disbursement of US universal service funds. Another case of policy innovations in [...]
Beauty parade likely for 3G licenses in India
According to this article that appeared today in India’s Business Standard, TRAI seems to be considering using a base price + beauty pagent mechanism to award 5 licenses (of 5MHz each) for companies to introduce 3G services.
The prduence of using beauty pagents needs to be questioned. The failures of 3G auctions in Europe in 2000 [...]
Colloquium on “Bridging the Divide: Building Asia-Pacific Capacity for Effective Reforms”
Bridging the digital divide is important. It may not be as important as ensuring safe water for all, or adequate healthcare, in terms of meriting investment of scarce public resources, but it is definitely important enough to merit concerted action to remove the artificial barriers to private supply. One of the best ways this can [...]
FCC to levy USF charges on web phones
June 21 (Bloomberg) — Vonage Holdings Corp. and other providers of Internet-based telephone service must help subsidize services in rural and low-income areas, U.S. regulators said.
A rule adopted today by the Federal Communications Commission requires providers of Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, service to contribute 10.5 percent of their long-distance revenue to the Universal [...]
Colloquium: ‘Benchmarking National Telecom Regulatory Authority websites of Asia-Pacific Region’
Chanuka Wattegama presents findings from a benchmarking study of regulatory websites. The objective of this study is to do a performance evaluation of the web sites of the Telecommunication National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) of selected countries in the Asian Pacific region and benchmark their performance as e-government service providers.
Slides
Points of Discussion:
What is the role [...]
Net Thru a Wall Outlet
Should this be added to the debate? 65% of homes have electricity; more than the 25% with some form of telecom access.
By TOM McNICHOL
HIGH-speed Internet access usually comes to homes through one of two wires: a telephone line for D.S.L. subscribers, or a coaxial cable for cable modem [...]
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