White House Must Lead on Wireless
The message is clear: Political gridlock and bureaucratic inertia in Washington must take a back seat to the more urgent tasks of moving our economy forward and putting the interests and needs of our citizens first.
The message is clear: Political gridlock and bureaucratic inertia in Washington must take a back seat to the more urgent tasks of moving our economy forward and putting the interests and needs of our citizens first.
Jonathan Spalter | Posted 04.12.2012
Today, U.S. consumers and businesses largely take our mobile connectivity for granted. It is incumbent on all political leaders to ensure this never changes.
Jonathan Spalter | Posted 05.16.2012
Today, policymakers have an opportunity to transform challenges into opportunities by adopting policy prescriptions that make more spectrum available for mobile and enable robust wireless investment and innovation.
J.H. Snider | Posted 05.12.2012
Anything short of this type of personal liability is unlikely to provide agency heads with an adequate incentive to comply with FOIA under circumstances when they believe that compliance could damage their careers.
Jonathan Spalter | Posted 04.16.2012
The next wave of U.S. mobile innovation now waits on Washington. Mobile entrepreneurs and consumers have thrown a perfect spiral down the field. In the now infamous words of Gisele Bundchen, someone's got to catch it.
Joel Kelsey | Posted 03.06.2012
We all remember the 1980s and its awesome fashion and music. While some may want to revisit those aspects of the past, I don't think anyone wants to return to the era of the cable and Ma Bell monopolies.
AP | By PETER SVENSSON | Posted 12.16.2011
NEW YORK -- Cable company Cox Communications on Friday said that it has agreed to sell some of its airwave licenses to Verizon Wireless for $315 milli...
Harald Haas | Posted 12.16.2011
Posted 12.16.2011
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Art Brodsky | Posted 01.23.2012
With any other company, in any other merger, the action the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced on Tuesday would be the signal that a deal is dead. But when one of the parties involved is AT&T, the rules don't apply.
J.H. Snider | Posted 12.27.2011
Politico's remarkably poor job of disclosing its own corporate conflicts has practical consequences. Most notably, it serves to send a message of intimidation to Hill staff.
J.H. Snider | Posted 12.24.2011
What the broadcasters really want is to transition to mobile broadband service without paying for the privilege. The debate in the industry is over the means, not the end.
J.H. Snider | Posted 12.11.2011
The president should be applauded for launching this democratically enhancing but politically risky initiative. However, We The People will probably only have a short life.
Jonathan Spalter | Posted 10.02.2011
Much attention has rightly noted the promise of the mobile Internet to be a catalyst for an economic turnaround. This week, Mobile Future released fresh analysis to support this claim.
Jonathan Spalter | Posted 08.20.2011
Spectrum is a complex debate. Even more true, it's an essential one to get right today. Congress is starting to move on spectrum legislation, but the clock is ticking.
Mike Smith | Posted 07.19.2011
A Brookings Institution report says 99% of smartphones will have WiFi capability within the next two years. Goodbye TV? In South Korea 23 million people use digital mobile broadcast. They watch content and TV programs on smartphones.
Jonathan Spalter | Posted 07.18.2011
To keep mobile connectivity working for all of us, it's time to raise our voices and be clear to our nation's leaders: We need spectrum now.
Jonathan Spalter | Posted 07.05.2011
The details of the spectrum debate at times can seem inscrutable and abstract to all but the most ardent of policy wonks. But the stakes for consumers and our economy couldn't be more plainly evident.
The Huffington Post | Thomas Houston | Posted 06.22.2011
Federal Communications Commission chief Julius Genachowski told Washington D.C.'s Economic Club on Wednesday that the dwindling electromagnetic spectr...
Jonathan Spalter | Posted 06.04.2011
As Americans across the country turn to their mobile devices to track the final brackets of the NCAA college basketball tournament, technology policy circles are turning to a high-stakes game of their own.
Julius H. Hollis | Posted 05.25.2011
Expanded access to the next generation of wireless services will generate major economic growth and rapid job creation, fostering crucial economic empowerment in communities of color.
AP | JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is backing a plan to nearly double the space available on the airwaves for wireless high-speed Internet tr...
Jonathan Spalter | Posted 05.25.2011
As the mercury rises in the nation's capital, it's important that cooler heads prevail when it comes to the flexibility and dynamism that have truly connected the nation to the opportunities and innovation made possible by the mobile Internet.
Jonathan Spalter | Posted 05.25.2011
Today Washington witnessed a rare moment of comity with the release of the National Broadband Plan. Let's step back and appreciate the process that got us to this potentially historic day.
Jonathan Spalter | Posted 05.25.2011
Speaking this week at the New America Foundation, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski offered a widely anticipated prelude to next month's formal unveilin...
Jonathan Spalter | Posted 05.17.2012