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FCC to release broadband plan Tuesday - FierceWireless - 0 views

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Broadcast Spectrum television Broadband Broadcast FCC 2010 Mobile Future Auction Mobile TV

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  • scwalton on 15 Mar 10
     
    "One provision, a "Mobile Future Auction," calls for a spectrum auction that allows current licensees, including broadcasters, to voluntarily give up spectrum in exchange for a share of auction proceeds. This provision, which has drawn the ire of the National Association of Broadcasters trade group, is one element of a plan to free up 500 MHz of spectrum over the next decade for mobile broadband use."
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Op-Ed Contributor - Ending the Internet's Trench Warfare - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Internet regulation competition United States FCC National Broadcast Plan International Internet Speeds International Internet Pricing

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  • Affordability is the hard part — because there is no competition pushing down prices. The plan acknowledges that only 15 percent of homes will have a choice in providers, and then only between Verizon’s FiOS fiber-optic network and the local cable company. (AT&T’s “fiber” offering is merely souped-up DSL transmitted partly over its old copper wires, which can’t compete at these higher speeds.) The remaining 85 percent will have no choice at all.
  • significant reason that other countries had managed to both expand access and lower rates over the last decade was a commitment to open-access policies, requiring companies that build networks to sell access to rivals that then invest in, and compete on, the network.
  • These countries realize that innovation happens in electronics and services — not in laying cable.
  • kkholland on 21 Mar 10
     
    Op Ed Exploring the rates and speeds available in other countries, and the fact that the United States has among the slowest speeds and the highest prices of advanced economies. Also discusses the proposed FCC National Broadband Plan.
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Op-Ed Contributor - Ending the Internet's Trench Warfare - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...21Benkler.html

FCC 2010 Broadcast Spectrum Broadband Internet

shared by scwalton on 21 Mar 10 - Cached
  • scwalton on 21 Mar 10
     
    "The Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan, announced last week, is aimed at providing nearly universal, affordable broadband service by 2020. And while it takes many admirable steps - including very important efforts toward opening space in the broadcast spectrum - it does not address the source of the access problem: without a major policy shift to increase competition, broadband service in the United States will continue to lag far behind the rest of the developed world."
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