The following is a joint statement from Lowell McAdam, CEO Verizon Wireless and Eric Schmidt, CEO Google: (Cross-posted on the Google Public Policy blog.) Verizon and Google might seem unlikely bedfellows in the current debatearound network neutrality, or an open Internet. And while it's true wedo disagree quite strongly about certain aspects of government policy inthis area--such as whether mobile networks should even be part of thediscussion--there are many issues on which we agree. For...
Read MoreIvan Seidenberg had a wide ranging discussion on the Charlie Rose Show recently about Verizon, his vision for the company, and his views on everything from the role broadband and wireless networks play in societal change to policy issues like net neutrality. I am biased I admit but I believe Ivan covers most of the major issues in our industry and provides a view of the future as he sees it for the communications industry. I am not surprised by the vision and understanding Ivan exhibits...
Read More Time magazine carries and intriguing story about the emergence of Twitter as a new communications tool. It lauds the service as providing more evidence of the innovativeness of the U. S. economy pointing to the emergence of a host of online services and applications such as Facebook, Google, Blogger and Wikipedia as evidence that the U. S. remains one of the most innovative countries in the world. I think an untold part of this story however is role broadband deployment and connectivity...
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