Winnik panel debates infrastructure solutions to the wireless data crunch

September 4, 2013

Infrastructure will play a critical role in meeting the challenges of the looming “wireless data crunch,” said Jonathan Adelstein, President and CEO of PCIA – The Wireless Infrastructure Association, during his keynote address at the 2013 Winnik International Telecoms & Internet Forum. Mr. Adelstein explained that while more spectrum and more efficient use of spectrum are components of the solution, these approaches will not be sufficient to prevent service degradation or rationing of wireless…

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Seven Legacies of the Genachowski Era: Part Two of Two

By Aaron George

March 1, 2013

In Part One, we discussed four achievements that may come to define current Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Julius Genachowski’s legacy. Those achievements include Genachowski’s efforts to modernize the creaky $8 billion Universal Service Fund, his close scrutiny of competition-related transactions, including his decision to take the rare step of blocking the AT&T-T-Mobile transaction, his landmark net neutrality rules, and his multi-faceted initiatives to free up broad swaths of spectrum for mobile broadband.…

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Seven Legacies of the Genachowski Era: Part One of Two

By Aaron George

February 20, 2013

Amid widespread speculation that the current Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Julius Genachowski will soon leave the agency, what legacy will he leave behind? In a recent Washington Post interview, the Chairman observed, “One thing I learned from my predecessors is that people don’t remember the day-to-day battles, but they remember you got it done.” Below, we identify seven achievements that the Chairman can rightly claim as his own. Not all of them…

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FCC Takes Action to Implement the Public Safety Spectrum Act of 2012

By Aaron George

August 20, 2012

On July 30, 2012, the FCC released an Order terminating 20 waivers that it had previously issued to local, state, and regional public safety entities to start building out wireless broadband networks in the 700 MHz band. It also dismissed more than three dozen pending waiver requests from other public safety entities. The FCC had granted the waivers in its 2010 Waiver Order, after a 2008 attempt to auction the 700 MHz D Block…

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FCC Takes Action to Implement the Public Safety Spectrum Act of 2012

By Aaron George

August 15, 2012

Aaron George

Winnik panel debates infrastructure solutions to the wireless data crunch

Seven Legacies of the Genachowski Era: Part Two of Two

Seven Legacies of the Genachowski Era: Part One of Two

FCC Takes Action to Implement the Public Safety Spectrum Act of 2012

FCC Takes Action to Implement the Public Safety Spectrum Act of 2012

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