Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
Regardless of what you think of the AT&T/T-Mobile merger or the recently announced purchase of SpectrumCo licenses by Verizon, these deals tell us one thing: wireless carriers need access to more spectrum for mobile broadband. If they can’t have access to TV broadcast spectrum, they will get it where they can, and that’s by acquiring [...]
Over at TIME.com, I write about the recent compromise on the D Block, which would give more spectrum to public safety, and I ponder if there may not be a better way.. Patrol cars are as indispensable to police as radio communications. Yet when we provision cars to police, we don’t give them steel, glass [...]
AT&T and T-Mobile withdrew their merger application from the Federal Communications Commission Nov. 29 after it became clear that rigid ideologues at the FCC with no idea how to promote economic growth were determined to create as much trouble as possible. The companies will continue to battle the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of [...]
[Cross posted at Truth on the Market] As everyone knows by now, AT&T’s proposed merger with T-Mobile has hit a bureaucratic snag at the FCC. The remarkable decision to refer the merger to the Commission’s Administrative Law Judge (in an effort to derail the deal) and the public release of the FCC staff’s internal, draft [...]
TechFreedom president and TLF contributor Berin Szoka will be speaking today at the Economics of Privacy conference hosted by the Silicon Flatirons center at the University of Colorado and co-sponsored by TechFreedom. The entire conference will be livestreamed (embedded below) begining at 11am EST; Berin’s panel begins at 4:30pm EST. Highlights include a keynote conversation [...]
January 27, 2012
The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology.
