Policies, laws and regulations that impact the access and cost of Internet and the digital technologies we’ve come to depend on…
MoreBy Dr. Elena Rios, May 17, 2012, Fox News Latino As U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius wrote in the April 12th Huffington Post piece Health Equity Can’t Wait, it is “a time to raise awareness about the well-documented health disparities that continue to affect racial and ethnic minorities.” One of the keys to more »
Jonathan Spalter, Chairman, Mobile Future Posted: 04/12/2012 11:50 am In January of 2011, President Obama’s vision for the State of our Union included a bold objective of digital inclusion that could help virtually all Americans more fully participate in our connected economy. “Within the next five years,” he pledged, “we will make it possible for more »
Wired, April 4, 2012 By Sen. Mark Warner Let’s face it: Spectrum is a dry topic. Few members of Congress spend much time thinking about it. These days, though, we all spend a lot of time talking about jobs. And every mobile technology and most major startup companies in the last 20 years could not more »
Rural residents are finding it increasingly easy to subscribe to broadband Internet services, and receive increasingly faster speeds thanks to the efforts of community-based communications providers, according to survey results released by the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA).
The FCC Wednesday opened a proceeding on how to open up satellite spectrum in the 2 GHz band for mobile terrestrial use, one of the proposals in the National Broadband Plan and yet another element of the FCC’s multipart strategy to free up spectrum from broadcasters and others for mobile broadband. That is the rulemaking proposal it signaled it would tee up when earlier this month it denied Dish’s request for a waiver to use its satellite spectrum for mobile broadband, saying it would consider the issue more generally in the rulemaking.
Texans love accessing the Internet on the go. Almost half of adult Texans, about 8.9 million, use mobile broadband devices — cellphones, laptops or tablets using a cellular network — to keep the Internet a constant companion, according to a survey by Connected Nation, a nonprofit that is working to map and improve broadband use in more »
A whopping 85 percent of the traffic traversing the four nationwide mobile operators networks is pure data, according to a new study by wireless analyst Chetan Sharma, showing that the U.S. mobile industry long ago abandoned its voice mantle to become a data-driven juggernaut. Or has it? Sharma also found that data only accounted for 39 percent of all mobile data revenues carriers collected in the fourth quarter. Operators may be running what are primarily data networks, but they are still getting paid mainly for voice minutes.
Year after year, study after study, teens are proving to be texting at an increasing rate. In a new survey by the Pew Internet Research Center, U.S. teenagers are talking on landlines and cell phone less, using more smartphones, and are averaging 60 texts a day–up from 50 in 2009.
All eyes will be on the Federal Communications Commission in the coming months as it deals with a series of spectrum-related issues that will help determine who is a player in the mobile broadband market and who isn’t. Read More
AT&T announced that the new third-generation iPad exceeded all previous one-day sales and activation records this past Friday, the day it went on the market.
