broadband prices
Broadband Prices Decrease Amid General Inflation
‘At a time when inflation has become the norm, broadband is an outlier,’ USTelecom says
FCC
Cogent Buys T-Mobile Wireline, $81 Million from Emergency Connectivity Fund, Digital Redlining Study
T-Mobile is focusing on its wireless business, while Cogent wants to eventually replace its leased network.
Mobile
Think Tank Finds U.S. Wireless Speeds Among Best in World
A new study finds the U.S. has among the fastest wireless download speeds.
USTelecom
Phoenix Center Releases Results of Study Documenting Lower Broadband Investment from 2015
US Telecom recently released an update to its U.S. broadband industry capital spending series. Ford’s analysis shows that while the decline in capital spending in 2015 and 2016 stopped in 2017, investment in the telecommunications sector is materially compressed, being about $10-to-$13 billion (or 1
FCC
Phoenix Center Proposes a ‘Transaction Window’ to Facilitate Spectrum Transfers
WASHINGTON, October 15, 2018 – The Phoenix Center on Friday released a new report on how the existence of a “transaction window” could help facilitating market-based repurposing of electromagnetic spectrum. The eight-page report, “Expediting Spectrum Repurposing Through Market Transactions,” present
Broadband Mapping and Data
TechNet Hosts First Broadband Map Research Meeting
WASHINGTON, March 24, 2011 – The bipartisan technology policy group TechNet gathered government officials and leading broadband scholars Tuesday to present the first set of academic research using data from the national broadband map.
FCC
Phoenix Center Economist Drubs FCC for Unclear Policies
WASHINGTON, July 8, 2010 – A Phoenix Center economist said Thursday that no one “would really believe that [the FCC chairman’s] administration would go down in history as light touch regulators,” and that the Federal Communications Commission already had reneged on that promise.
Broadband Mapping and Data
Phoenix Center Urges Broadband Rankings to Include Demand-Side Data
WASHINGTON, July 16, 2009 – The Phoenix Center on Wednesday released a report today that aims to further debunk the frequently-cited Organization for Economic Cooperation Development’s report ranking the United States at 15 in broadband penetration among OECD members.
Broadband Mapping and Data
OECD Broadband Ranking System Needs Restructuring, Says Think Tank
WASHINGTON, July 29 – Basing telecommunications policy around the faulty ranking system of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development would lead to an “ill-defined national broadband strategy,” officials from the Phoenix Center think tank said Monday.
