Posts Tagged with ‘fcc’

Today we are watching an extraordinary move from Google. The internet giant seems to be exhausted in its pursuit for unlicensed use of unused airwaves (”white spaces”) between broadcast TV channels for internet access and decided to call for support from general internet users. Instead of continuing to try to reach the solution that it wants on its own Google has decided to invite all the internet users it can access to sign a petition that this unused spectrum should [...]

It’s January 1st, and we’re creeping ever closer to the day of the 700MHz spectrum auction, a so far widely publicized event to be orchestrated by the FCC. Some 260 or so applicants have submitted their names as participants in the process, including Google, AT&T, Qualcomm, and Alltel. Even Chevron is on the roster.
We mention this contest once more here at Profy for the fact that Forbes, a highly-regarded publication with a primarily business-centric focus, recently put forth [...]

We all knew the memo would come.
It’s the last day of November, and Google’s decided it fitting to top its monthly quota of announcements off with an official notice of intent to “apply to bid for wireless spectrum” in the new year.
The collective reaction from the public? Finally.
Yes, the message has been delivered not a moment too soon. And, looking at the FCC’s auction rules, just shy of the deadline. The commission has declared December 3rd, 2007 the cutoff [...]

Let’s face facts. Most peer-to-peer services today, while certainly capable of acting as intermediaries between remote parties on the Web for legal data transfers, do provide linking services for illicit means.
But some entities that rely on P2P technologies like BitTorrent are entirely valid. Vuze, a service built upon the Azureus platform, is one such example.
Yet Vuze, like others of the legal P2P variety, is being forced to contend with ISP-led bit-blocking measures. The reason, simply put, is that [...]

If you’ve been following our coverage of developments surrounding the 700MHz auction to take place in January 2008, you’ll know that Google has made its interests in keeping a sizable portion of the wireless spectrum open very well known. (Open in the sense that essential freedoms for both the owner(s) and users (either in the corporate or consumer spaces) to competitively develop both localized and Web-based software solutions will be guaranteed. No strings attached. Entirely open.)
So interesting it was [...]

The latest bits of news to emerge from the mess surrounding P2P file sharing are quite incredible. So much so that we simply couldn’t resist sharing them with you.
One involves a surprising play by an anti-Net-neutrality party against a particular ISP’s unsavory actions. Another has to do with the RIAA and its seriously disturbing efforts to put into law – vicariously through American legislators, of course – a higher education bill (you may view the corresponding PDF here) that will [...]

I have to say, I expected Verizon’s dispute with the open, Google-proposed terms for the 700MHz auction (scheduled to occur in January) to stretch well into the red, but apparently the telco has already ceased its moaning and groaning. Ars Technica’s Eric Bangeman reports that “earlier this week, (Verizon) filed a motion to voluntarily dismiss the case filed last month with the Court of Appeals….”
Of course, Verizon hasn’t completely lost its money-grubbing head and suddenly gone straight and [...]

We at Profy have regularly mentioned the planned auction arranged by the FCC of the coveted 700MHz spectrum, which is to commence, according to the Commissions website, on January 16, 2008. It’s been part of numerous stories; some my own, some written by others.
Many of those pieces published here have briefs involving statements made by Google representatives (from designated spokesmen and women to the CEO himself), regarding their company’s intentions to ensure the spectrum, to whomever it eventually goes, [...]

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, open is good. Open is very good. It allows for lots of cooperation, commiseration, and, believe it or not, progression. Yes, progression. It’s true.
Unfortunately, Verizon Wireless doesn’t appear to like progression all that much.
The company has filed suit in federal court, asking that the rules the FCC is "imposing on the winner of valuable wireless airwaves to be auctioned this winter" be struck down and removed from the sales sheet, as it [...]