Yesterday, there was an interesting exchange on NCTA’s blog between Michael Powell (Former FCC Chairman and current CEO of NCTA) and Gary Shapiro (CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association) about the need for and advisability of so-called “AllVid” rules. In his blog, Michael does a great job of demonstrating why AllVid rules are not needed. In defending the need for regulations, Gary pointed out in comments that 15 years ago, the Telecom Act included provisions (Section 629) calling for the...
Read MoreFiOS customers understand what Tom Cruise was talking about in Top Gun when he and Goose said “I feel the need, the need for speed!” because FiOS satisfies the “need for speed” in the same way that Maverick’s F-14 did - by delivering a consistently high-performance experience.Today, the FCC released the results of its broadband performance test program conducted this past winter by the UK firm SamKnows. SamKnows and the FCC, with the cooperation of 13 US broadband Internet Service Providers...
Read MoreOur guest blogger today is David E. Young, Vice President, Verizon Federal Regulatory Affairs. See the end of the post for his impressive bio - CZ.There seems to be some confusion around Verizon’s filing suggesting that the FCC keep a baseline definition for broadband as 768 kbps down and 200 kbps up. The implication here is that we want to keep the speed set low so we won’t have to upgrade our networks. From where we stand, this is clearly absurd. Verizon is deploying the country’s most...
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