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Douglas Sicker, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Computer Science, and William Lehr, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, have published Telecom Déjà Vu: A Model for Sharing in Broadband Access. MORE
From the New York Times, an editorial on broadband company promises, the FCC's attempts to sort out what service the average wired consumer actually receives, and what solutions might work MORE
The FCC today released its National Broadband Plan to Congress, and in it spelled out its suggestions for the future of television. Facilitating the deployment of ubiquitous, dependable wireless broadband service is identified as a fundamental goal of the Commission’s proposals. The authors of the Commission’s report have viewed the problems experienced by some wireless broadband providers in major markets as indicative of a coming shortage in wireless capacity. MORE
The FCC has released a white paper containing its "capacity analysis behind the National Broadband Plan recommendations for the deployment and operation of a nationwide 4G wireless public safety network that allows first responders to seamlessly communicate across geographies and MORE
But another “right” has garnered a lot of press in recent days in Scandinavia–the right to broadband Internet access. On October 16, the government of Finland made broadband Internet service a legal right when it announced the passage of a new law to guarantee that all citizens are legally entitled to a minimum broadband connection speed of one megabit per second. MORE
The FCC released its plan for bringing broadband to the masses yesterday. Today, the masses react. Here's a story from NPR discussing both plan and reaction. Here's a link to the open meeting, going on now MORE
On August 29th, a Ninth Circuit panel unanimously held that the FTC has no power to challenge “throttling” of unlimited data plan customers by mobile broadband providers as an “unfair or deceptive act.” Given the FCC’s 2015 reclassification of all public broadband services (wired and mobile) as “common carrier” services , the decision potentially could be applied to exempt cable companies and other broadband providers (e.g., MORE
Prepared Remarks of Chairman Julius Genachowski Federal Communications Commission “Connecting the Nation: A National Broadband Plan.” FCC Chair Julius Genachowski's remarks, made at the Clinton Presidential Library, November 24, 2009. The Clinton Presidential Library Little Rock, Arkansas November 24, 2009 MORE
From the FCC: FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski today announced new actions as part of the Broadband Acceleration Initiative, a comprehensive effort to remove barriers to broadband build-out, including streamlining the deployment of mobile broadband infrastructure, such as towers, distributed antenna MORE
7 Broadband Summit: Broadband Adoption and Usage What Have We Learned? From the FCC: Federal-State Joint Conference on Advanced Services Announces Feb. The Federal-State Joint Conference on Advanced Services will hold a summit on February 7, 2013 to identify and MORE
One interesting note is that the success of this service will make it more difficult for the Commission to reclaim television spectrum for broadband use. Were the Commission to try to take back television spectrum for broadband use, where could they put the TV stations displaced from the reclaimed spectrum, especially if they have successful mobile operations? Thus, the services which this ruling promotes may help to shape the debate about the broadband recapture. MORE
From the FCC: STATEMENT FROM FCC CHAIRMAN JULIUS GENACHOWSKI ON AT&T INVESTMENT ANNOUNCEMENT “AT&T’s announcement of billions of dollars in new investment in wired and wireless broadband networks is proof positive that the climate for investment and innovation in the MORE
Commissioner Copps' Statement on the Broadband Adoption Initiative to Extend Digital Literary Training and Provide Employment Assistance To Communities I applaud the launch of the Connect to Compete initiative and the many participants who have committed to bring the wonders MORE
The FCC has released a report that measures broadband performance. The report's major findings: · For most major broadband providers, actual speeds are generally 80%-90% of advertised speeds or better, although performance varies by technology and service provider. MORE
The FCC has granted a one week extension for reply comments in the proceeding looking to take many of the preliminary steps toward incentive auctions by which the FCC would reclaim parts of television spectrum for use by wireless broadband companies. This remains a very hot issue, with the FCC officials who attended the NAB Conference clearly pushing the agenda advanced in the Broadband Plan to reclaim some of the television spectrum for wireless uses. MORE
Last week, we wrote that the FCC is going ahead with a rulemaking looking at how broadband needs may require some reallocation of the TV spectrum to wireless uses. Finding that much of the demand for new translators has been met in these rural areas in the intervening period, the FCC has now determined that, until the spectrum needs for television and broadband are more certain, it would not accept any more applications for these stations. MORE
While it's summer in Washington and things should slow down, the discussion of the need for wireless spectrum for broadband, and the related question of whether to reclaim television spectrum for that use, continues unabated. This week, the FCC released a new report finding that between 14 and 24 million Americans have no access to broadband , and finding that a disproportionate number of those people are in rural areas. MORE
The FCC might expand its regulatory scope with an ambitious "National Broadband Plan." It seeks to increase access to the Internet but also includes provisions on competition rules, the video set-top market, broadcast spectrums and more. Here's an overview of. MORE
From the FCC Prepared Remarks of Chairman Julius Genachowski Federal Communications Commission Broadband Field Hearing on Small Business Chicago, Illinois December 21, 2009 The Federal Communications Commission is in Chicago today as part of a public conversation over the shape MORE
The Media Center of New York Law School has posted video of its recent Conference on Broadband in a Post-Stimulus Environment here. A transcript of papers will be available in Media Law & Policy this spring; papers will be posted MORE
Last week the FCC rejected a request by a low power television broadcaster seeking an experimental license to test a technology that would allow broadcast television stations to provide broadband access. This decision brought about a rebuke by a Wall Street Journal columnist , suggesting that the FCC was not fully exploring one way to rapidly deploy broadband through existing TV licensees, in fears of foregoing the revenues that would come from an auction of reclaimed television spectrum. MORE
Reaction to the FCC's broadband plan MORE
While it's summer in Washington and things should slow down, the discussion of the need for wireless spectrum for broadband, and the related question of whether to reclaim television spectrum for that use, continues unabated. This week, the FCC released a new report finding that between 14 and 24 million Americans have no access to broadband , and finding that a disproportionate number of those people are in rural areas. MORE
Adam VanWagner, Fordham University Law School, is publishing Seeking a Clearer Picture: Assessing the Appropriate Regulatory Framework for Broadband Video Distribution in the Fordham Law Review. Here is the abstract. This Note examines the appropriate regulatory framework for the distribution MORE
The FCC has published the results of its survey on broadband speeds and U.S. users' knowledge of their connection speed. The agency notes that 80 percent of users do not know their connection speed. According to a PEW survey done MORE
From the FCC news release: “For some time now we have been talking about protecting Internet consumers. At the heart of this is whether Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that provide connectivity in the final mile to the home can advantage MORE
From the New York Times, a piece on the FCC's likely broadband policy in the wake of Comcast v. MORE
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai has released a statement concerning deployment of broadband throughout the U.S. It begins: The American government needs to embrace the IP transition. Consumers and private enterprise already have done so, recognizing that next-generation technologies such as MORE
Goodman, Rutgers University Law School, and Anne Chen, University of Pennsylvania and the Yale University Information Society Project, have published Digital Public Media Networks to Advance Broadband and Enrich Connected Communities. Ellen P. Here is the abstract. The Federal Communications MORE
The FCC has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would establish privacy guidelines for ISPs offering broadband services. The new rules would ensure that consumers understand and consent to the purchase of ISP broadband services, and that ISPs providing MORE
Michael Santorelli and Charles Davidson, New York Law School, have published "Seizing the Mobile Moment: Spectrum Allocation Policy for the Wireless Broadband Century." Broadband is widely recognized as a key platform for enabling and supporting job Here is the abstract. MORE
Broadband Services," as George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. Thomas W. Hazlette, George Mason University School of Law and Dennis Weisman, Kansas State University Department of Economics, have published "Market Power in U.S. 09-69. Here is the abstract MORE
From the New York Times, an article on the FCC's National Broadband Plan comment period MORE
In another example of how seriously the FCC is considering the reallocation of portions of the TV spectrum for wireless broadband use , the Commission today issued a Public Notice freezing any new petitions for changes in the channels of television stations. Yet, as the FCC is looking at implementing its plan to recapture portions of the television spectrum for use by wireless broadband, this freeze has now been adopted. MORE
From an FCC announcement: On Friday, March 4, 2011, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) Public Safety Homeland Security Bureau’s (PSHSB) Emergency Response Interoperability Center (ERIC) will host a forum to garner input on the MORE
From the FCC The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University will conduct an independent expert review of existing literature and studies about broadband deployment and usage throughout the world. This project will help inform the FCC’s efforts MORE
The debate over repurposing some of the television spectrum for wireless broadband have been raging over the normally quiet Washington summer, as issues as diverse as the budget negotiations, the tenth anniversary of 9-11 and international treaties all play their part in the discussions. The FCC has been pursuing the idea of repurposing some of the television spectrum for wireless broadband use since well before the Broadband Report was issued last year. MORE
Jean-Pierre Blais, head of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), announced today that access to a minimum level of fixed broadband and mobile speed is a basic service for all Canadians. The minimum speed that ISPs must provide is MORE
The Sixth Circuit has ruled that the FCC overstepped its authority in allowing municipalities to build out high-speed network that provide broadband services if state laws do not allow such services, because Congress does not specifically grant the agency to MORE
As expected by the Chairman’s statements in the lead-up to the vote, the FCC’s Open Internet Order reclassifies broadband internet access as a “telecommunications service” (or common carrier service) under Title II of the Communications Act. The new rules cover both wired and wireless broadband. Reasonable network management permitted to manage the technical and engineering aspects of a provider’s broadband networks. MORE
Here's the press release MORE
Finland has become the first country in the world to make broadband Internet access a legal right for every citizen. To improve web accessibility, the Federal Communications Commission released a national broadband plan last spring with the goal of providing 100 million households with 100 Mbps connections by 2010. It’s official. MORE
The FCC increases its broadband program by enlisting folks like the Geek Squad. More here from the New York Times MORE
The battle over the reclamation of television spectrum for wireless broadband rages on, and some in the television industry fear that the future of over-the-air television may be sacrificed to Congressional attempts to reduce the Federal deficit. These auctions are planned to pay some stations to turn in their spectrum, or to enter into arrangements to share spectrum with other stations, freeing some channels for broadband use. MORE
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MARCH 11, 2011
Adam VanWagner, Fordham University Law School, is publishing Seeking a Clearer Picture: Assessing the Appropriate Regulatory Framework for Broadband Video Distribution in the Fordham Law Review. Here is the abstract. This Note examines the appropriate regulatory framework for the distribution
Media Law Prof Blog
MARCH 31, 2016
The FCC has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would establish privacy guidelines for ISPs offering broadband services. The new rules would ensure that consumers understand and consent to the purchase of ISP broadband services, and that ISPs providing
Media Law Prof Blog
APRIL 8, 2010
From the New York Times, an editorial on broadband company promises, the FCC's attempts to sort out what service the average wired consumer actually receives, and what solutions might work
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NOVEMBER 25, 2009
Prepared Remarks of Chairman Julius Genachowski Federal Communications Commission “Connecting the Nation: A National Broadband Plan.” FCC Chair Julius Genachowski's remarks, made at the Clinton Presidential Library, November 24, 2009. The Clinton Presidential Library Little Rock, Arkansas November 24, 2009
Media Law Prof Blog
AUGUST 2, 2011
The FCC has released a report that measures broadband performance. The report's major findings: · For most major broadband providers, actual speeds are generally 80%-90% of advertised speeds or better, although performance varies by technology and service provider.
Media Law Prof Blog
JUNE 1, 2010
The FCC has published the results of its survey on broadband speeds and U.S. users' knowledge of their connection speed. The agency notes that 80 percent of users do not know their connection speed. According to a PEW survey done
Media Law Prof Blog
MARCH 17, 2010
Reaction to the FCC's broadband plan
JetLawBlog
JULY 7, 2010
Finland has become the first country in the world to make broadband Internet access a legal right for every citizen. To improve web accessibility, the Federal Communications Commission released a national broadband plan last spring with the goal of providing 100 million households with 100 Mbps connections by 2010. It’s official.
Media Law Prof Blog
MARCH 28, 2018
Douglas Sicker, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Computer Science, and William Lehr, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, have published Telecom Déjà Vu: A Model for Sharing in Broadband Access.
Media Law Prof Blog
OCTOBER 15, 2015
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai has released a statement concerning deployment of broadband throughout the U.S. It begins: The American government needs to embrace the IP transition. Consumers and private enterprise already have done so, recognizing that next-generation technologies such as
Media Law Prof Blog
MAY 6, 2010
From the New York Times, a piece on the FCC's likely broadband policy in the wake of Comcast v.
Media Law Prof Blog
OCTOBER 12, 2011
The FCC increases its broadband program by enlisting folks like the Geek Squad. More here from the New York Times
Media Law Prof Blog
MARCH 31, 2010
Michael Santorelli and Charles Davidson, New York Law School, have published "Seizing the Mobile Moment: Spectrum Allocation Policy for the Wireless Broadband Century." Broadband is widely recognized as a key platform for enabling and supporting job Here is the abstract.
Media Law Prof Blog
JANUARY 22, 2010
Broadband Services," as George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. Thomas W. Hazlette, George Mason University School of Law and Dennis Weisman, Kansas State University Department of Economics, have published "Market Power in U.S. 09-69. Here is the abstract
Broadcast Law Blog
MARCH 16, 2010
The FCC today released its National Broadband Plan to Congress, and in it spelled out its suggestions for the future of television. Facilitating the deployment of ubiquitous, dependable wireless broadband service is identified as a fundamental goal of the Commission’s proposals. The authors of the Commission’s report have viewed the problems experienced by some wireless broadband providers in major markets as indicative of a coming shortage in wireless capacity.
Media Law Prof Blog
APRIL 13, 2010
Goodman, Rutgers University Law School, and Anne Chen, University of Pennsylvania and the Yale University Information Society Project, have published Digital Public Media Networks to Advance Broadband and Enrich Connected Communities. Ellen P. Here is the abstract. The Federal Communications
Media Law Prof Blog
JUNE 18, 2010
From the New York Times, an article on the FCC's National Broadband Plan comment period
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JANUARY 28, 2013
From the FCC: FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski today announced new actions as part of the Broadband Acceleration Initiative, a comprehensive effort to remove barriers to broadband build-out, including streamlining the deployment of mobile broadband infrastructure, such as towers, distributed antenna
Media Law Prof Blog
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Jean-Pierre Blais, head of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), announced today that access to a minimum level of fixed broadband and mobile speed is a basic service for all Canadians. The minimum speed that ISPs must provide is
Media Law Prof Blog
AUGUST 11, 2016
The Sixth Circuit has ruled that the FCC overstepped its authority in allowing municipalities to build out high-speed network that provide broadband services if state laws do not allow such services, because Congress does not specifically grant the agency to
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MARCH 16, 2010
The FCC might expand its regulatory scope with an ambitious "National Broadband Plan." It seeks to increase access to the Internet but also includes provisions on competition rules, the video set-top market, broadcast spectrums and more. Here's an overview of.
JetLawBlog
OCTOBER 27, 2009
But another “right” has garnered a lot of press in recent days in Scandinavia–the right to broadband Internet access. On October 16, the government of Finland made broadband Internet service a legal right when it announced the passage of a new law to guarantee that all citizens are legally entitled to a minimum broadband connection speed of one megabit per second.
Media Law Prof Blog
DECEMBER 11, 2012
7 Broadband Summit: Broadband Adoption and Usage What Have We Learned? From the FCC: Federal-State Joint Conference on Advanced Services Announces Feb. The Federal-State Joint Conference on Advanced Services will hold a summit on February 7, 2013 to identify and
Media Law Prof Blog
JUNE 15, 2010
The FCC has released a white paper containing its "capacity analysis behind the National Broadband Plan recommendations for the deployment and operation of a nationwide 4G wireless public safety network that allows first responders to seamlessly communicate across geographies and
New Media and Technology Law
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
As expected by the Chairman’s statements in the lead-up to the vote, the FCC’s Open Internet Order reclassifies broadband internet access as a “telecommunications service” (or common carrier service) under Title II of the Communications Act. The new rules cover both wired and wireless broadband. Reasonable network management permitted to manage the technical and engineering aspects of a provider’s broadband networks.
Media Law Prof Blog
MARCH 16, 2010
The FCC released its plan for bringing broadband to the masses yesterday. Today, the masses react. Here's a story from NPR discussing both plan and reaction. Here's a link to the open meeting, going on now
Broadcast Law Blog
JULY 22, 2010
While it's summer in Washington and things should slow down, the discussion of the need for wireless spectrum for broadband, and the related question of whether to reclaim television spectrum for that use, continues unabated. This week, the FCC released a new report finding that between 14 and 24 million Americans have no access to broadband , and finding that a disproportionate number of those people are in rural areas.
Media Law Prof Blog
JUNE 16, 2014
From the FCC news release: “For some time now we have been talking about protecting Internet consumers. At the heart of this is whether Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that provide connectivity in the final mile to the home can advantage
Media Law Prof Blog
OCTOBER 13, 2011
Commissioner Copps' Statement on the Broadband Adoption Initiative to Extend Digital Literary Training and Provide Employment Assistance To Communities I applaud the launch of the Connect to Compete initiative and the many participants who have committed to bring the wonders
Media Law Prof Blog
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
From the FCC: STATEMENT FROM FCC CHAIRMAN JULIUS GENACHOWSKI ON AT&T INVESTMENT ANNOUNCEMENT “AT&T’s announcement of billions of dollars in new investment in wired and wireless broadband networks is proof positive that the climate for investment and innovation in the
Broadcast Law Blog
JULY 22, 2010
While it's summer in Washington and things should slow down, the discussion of the need for wireless spectrum for broadband, and the related question of whether to reclaim television spectrum for that use, continues unabated. This week, the FCC released a new report finding that between 14 and 24 million Americans have no access to broadband , and finding that a disproportionate number of those people are in rural areas.
Broadcast Law Blog
MAY 31, 2011
In another example of how seriously the FCC is considering the reallocation of portions of the TV spectrum for wireless broadband use , the Commission today issued a Public Notice freezing any new petitions for changes in the channels of television stations. Yet, as the FCC is looking at implementing its plan to recapture portions of the television spectrum for use by wireless broadband, this freeze has now been adopted.
Media Law Prof Blog
NOVEMBER 12, 2009
The Media Center of New York Law School has posted video of its recent Conference on Broadband in a Post-Stimulus Environment here. A transcript of papers will be available in Media Law & Policy this spring; papers will be posted
Broadcast Law Blog
APRIL 14, 2011
The FCC has granted a one week extension for reply comments in the proceeding looking to take many of the preliminary steps toward incentive auctions by which the FCC would reclaim parts of television spectrum for use by wireless broadband companies. This remains a very hot issue, with the FCC officials who attended the NAB Conference clearly pushing the agenda advanced in the Broadband Plan to reclaim some of the television spectrum for wireless uses.
Broadcast Law Blog
FEBRUARY 16, 2011
Last week the FCC rejected a request by a low power television broadcaster seeking an experimental license to test a technology that would allow broadcast television stations to provide broadband access. This decision brought about a rebuke by a Wall Street Journal columnist , suggesting that the FCC was not fully exploring one way to rapidly deploy broadband through existing TV licensees, in fears of foregoing the revenues that would come from an auction of reclaimed television spectrum.
Media Law Prof Blog
FEBRUARY 18, 2011
From an FCC announcement: On Friday, March 4, 2011, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) Public Safety Homeland Security Bureau’s (PSHSB) Emergency Response Interoperability Center (ERIC) will host a forum to garner input on the
Media Law Prof Blog
DECEMBER 30, 2009
From the FCC Prepared Remarks of Chairman Julius Genachowski Federal Communications Commission Broadband Field Hearing on Small Business Chicago, Illinois December 21, 2009 The Federal Communications Commission is in Chicago today as part of a public conversation over the shape
Media Law Prof Blog
JULY 14, 2009
From the FCC The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University will conduct an independent expert review of existing literature and studies about broadband deployment and usage throughout the world. This project will help inform the FCC’s efforts
Broadcast Law Blog
OCTOBER 16, 2011
The battle over the reclamation of television spectrum for wireless broadband rages on, and some in the television industry fear that the future of over-the-air television may be sacrificed to Congressional attempts to reduce the Federal deficit. These auctions are planned to pay some stations to turn in their spectrum, or to enter into arrangements to share spectrum with other stations, freeing some channels for broadband use.
Broadcast Law Blog
AUGUST 18, 2011
The debate over repurposing some of the television spectrum for wireless broadband have been raging over the normally quiet Washington summer, as issues as diverse as the budget negotiations, the tenth anniversary of 9-11 and international treaties all play their part in the discussions. The FCC has been pursuing the idea of repurposing some of the television spectrum for wireless broadband use since well before the Broadband Report was issued last year.
Broadcast Law Blog
JULY 19, 2010
One interesting note is that the success of this service will make it more difficult for the Commission to reclaim television spectrum for broadband use. Were the Commission to try to take back television spectrum for broadband use, where could they put the TV stations displaced from the reclaimed spectrum, especially if they have successful mobile operations? Thus, the services which this ruling promotes may help to shape the debate about the broadband recapture.
Broadcast Law Blog
OCTOBER 28, 2010
Last week, we wrote that the FCC is going ahead with a rulemaking looking at how broadband needs may require some reallocation of the TV spectrum to wireless uses. Finding that much of the demand for new translators has been met in these rural areas in the intervening period, the FCC has now determined that, until the spectrum needs for television and broadband are more certain, it would not accept any more applications for these stations.
New Media and Technology Law
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
On August 29th, a Ninth Circuit panel unanimously held that the FTC has no power to challenge “throttling” of unlimited data plan customers by mobile broadband providers as an “unfair or deceptive act.” Given the FCC’s 2015 reclassification of all public broadband services (wired and mobile) as “common carrier” services , the decision potentially could be applied to exempt cable companies and other broadband providers (e.g.,
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