WholeThinking essays with keyword tag: FCC

Google-Verizon CoOpoly Galvanize Net Neutrality

By | August 19, 2010 | Raw Economics

If the intention of the Google-Verizon CoOpoly proposal was to provide a compromising way forward on Internet broadband policy, they may have gotten more than they bargained for as the Net Neutrality forces achieve a laser like focus. and turn their bright focus upon them. Verizon is no stranger to controversy, it strides confident across […]

Broadband and Health: Bound by TeleMedicine

By | August 14, 2010 | Raw Economics

On August 14 I had the opportunity to sit in a small room with a handful of local journalists and staff at Seattle Children’s Hospital, also present, was the chairman of the FCC, Julius Genachowski. We were gathered to see a demonstration of the hospital’s telemedicine network that serves a number of hospitals and rural clinics throughout […]

Partitioning the Internet: Google and Verizon Hold Forth

By | August 9, 2010 | Mobile Nature, Raw Economics

Despite numerous rumors and repeated questions, Google and Verizon denied they were in any kind of discussions. When specificaly asked if they were engaged in conversations about the prioritization of Internet traffic, they continued to deny any such talks had taken place. Today, Google and Verizon issued a joint statement that they have not only been […]

Nokia Siemens Networks Lands LightSquared Deal

By | August 8, 2010 | Raw Economics, Visible Future

In one of the largest telecom gambles in United States history, LightSquared, backed by New York hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners, has put pen to paper and contracted Nokia Siemens Networks to build their wireless broadband network. I first wrote of the LightSquared plan about two weeks ago in, “New Broadband Service Coming to United States, […]

Of Tolls and Rivers Chains -The New Robber Barons

By | September 14, 2009 | Raw Economics

For a number of centuries, roughly 800 AD to 1800 AD, feudal lords with land along the Rhine River in Germany, collected tolls from passing cargo ships. In an effective effort to back this control, large iron chains were laid across the river and raised high enough to block passage of uncooperative vessels. Not being […]