Building a Network for the 21st Century
This morning, we announced a very significant capital commitment to our broadband infrastructure. The net-net is that we are committing $14 Billion in capital to bring Internet broadband...
View ArticleSprint’s Retiring Ways: What It Says About Encouraging Investment in IP...
Last week, Sprint confirmed that, beginning January 1, 2013, it was imposing upon its Nextel, non-CDMA iDen subscribers a $10 monthly surcharge in order to incent those customers to move off of its...
View ArticleAT&T Statement on FCC’s Technology Transitions Policy Task Force
Attribute the following to Bob Quinn, AT&T Senior Vice President of Federal Regulatory and Chief Privacy Officer: “Today’s announcement by the FCC to appoint a Technology Task Force to modernize...
View ArticleA Turning Point
Today, USTelecom filed a petition requesting that the FCC declare that traditional phone companies no longer possess market power when providing switched access services, or more plainly, “plain old...
View ArticleStreamlining Telegraph Rules: This is Tricky Stuff
For anyone who thought that we didn’t need a comprehensive, focused inquiry on how to clear the path for communications to move from a TDM-based circuit switched world to an all-IP, broadband future,...
View ArticleAvailability of Numbers And the IP Transition
FCC Commissioner Pai confirmed last week during his terrific speech at the Hudson Institute that Chairman Genachowski has circulated a draft order which would initiate a geographically limited trial...
View ArticleFCC Begins Transition to All-IP Interconnection
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao-Tzu, The Way of Lao Tzu Over the last few years, discussion of the FCC’s role in IP interconnection has generated lots of heat, a little...
View ArticlePublic Knowledge’s White Paper on the IP Transition: A common sense framework
Early this week at an event sponsored by the Center for American Progress, we expressed support for the concepts embodied in Public Knowledge’s 5 Principles for the IP transition. After reading Public...
View ArticleThe End of the Beginning of the IP Transition
Much has been written over the 12 months that have passed since AT&T filed its request for the Federal Communications Commission to oversee trials to facilitate the industry’s continued transition...
View ArticleThe FCC Decides to Lead on IP
The FCC today made a bold leap forward on the path to a modern 21st Century broadband world by agreeing to oversee industry-wide geographic trials. These trials will convert legacy Plain Old Telephone...
View ArticleWhat the Data Shows: Special Access is Not Very Special Any More
On Friday, Mother Nature willing, we will file our first set of comments analyzing the data submitted in the special access proceeding. As a refresher course for the uninitiated, the special access...
View ArticlePublic Knowledge’s White Paper on the IP Transition: A common sense framework
Early this week at an event sponsored by the Center for American Progress, we expressed support for the concepts embodied in Public Knowledge’s 5 Principles for the IP transition. After reading Public...
View ArticleThe End of the Beginning of the IP Transition
Much has been written over the 12 months that have passed since AT&T filed its request for the Federal Communications Commission to oversee trials to facilitate the industry’s continued transition...
View ArticleThe FCC Decides to Lead on IP
The FCC today made a bold leap forward on the path to a modern 21st Century broadband world by agreeing to oversee industry-wide geographic trials. These trials will convert legacy Plain Old Telephone...
View ArticleWhat the Data Shows: Special Access is Not Very Special Any More
On Friday, Mother Nature willing, we will file our first set of comments analyzing the data submitted in the special access proceeding. As a refresher course for the uninitiated, the special access...
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