We are starting a new feature at Public Knowledge called “Five Minutes With Harold Feld,” wherein I will take insanely boring complicated wonkery and make it mildly less boring. This week, I explain the National Broadband Plan and the comments PK filed last night.
Stay tuned . . . .
Srsly, investors would not spend $4B unless their own engineers agreed with the @FCC that there is not gong to be interference with GPS. #FCC - 1 #Dod -0.
Given how analysts perpetually look at me funny when I say #Ligado actually plans to build its network and has a reasonable business plan, I find this $4B in new investment reaffirming. https://www.fiercewireless.com/financial/ligado-raises-4b-to-support-l-band-plan
It's a bad sign when I literally LoL reading the TMo outage report. This reads like a script 4 Pinky & the Brain reboot. "Now Pinky, reboot the server!" "You mean that server we just shut off the connection to, Brain?" "Yes Pi once we reboot that server we'll [pause] [Facepalm]
.@Davidlaz calls out the telcos & cable guys & @AjitPaiFCC for their abject failure to make #broadband Internet cheap, fast & available to all, esp. during a #pandemic. Great comments from @Lisa_PubCitizen, @haroldfeld, @chesterj1, others. https://twitter.com/WendyWendlandt/status/1319648703813042176
Column: The pandemic makes clear it's time to treat the internet as a utility https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-10-23/coronavirus-internet-is-a-utility @edmpirg @fairsharetweets @COFairShare
The FCC strikes a pretty hard blow against state oversight by classifying broadband as a Title I information service, declining to classify VoLTE as Title II (although Lord knows why it wouldn't be under the statute) and generally preempting state authority.
I noticed that your name is not included among the signers of PK’s comments on the NBP. Is there a story behind that?
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