Harold Feld

White Spaces Wrap Up: Exclusive Licensing, or the Part 101 Poison Pill

Stevie Converse — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:26:25 -0800

White Spaces Debate Becomes Religious War

Stevie Converse — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:08:34 -0700

Media Minutes: October 3, 2008

candace — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:56:59 -0700

There are over a million wireless microphones in use across the country. But most of them are illegal and squatting on airwaves that could be used for low-cost Internet access. And Congress helps to protect Internet Radio.

Media Minutes (2008-10-03)

candace — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:54:43 -0700

Wireless microphones are used by theater groups, churches, amateur musicians, karaoke singers across the country use them because they’re convenient and versatile. There’s only one problem: Most of them are illegal. And Congress helps to protect Internet Radio.

The FCC Starts Its Wireless Microphone Investigation. Will Broadcasters Throw Broadway Under a Bus?

Stevie Converse — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:16:43 -0700

FCC Proposes Ban on Some Wireless Microphones

Stevie Converse — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:11:01 -0700

The FCC Releases the Comcast Complaint Order — Why This Is a Huge Win.

Stevie Converse — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:44:27 -0700

White Space: FCC to Look at Wireless Mics After Far-Reaching Complaint

Stevie Converse — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:57:11 -0700

Comcast Not on Notice? They Were Told Point Blank!

Stevie Converse — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:10:17 -0700

We File Wireless Microphone Complaint: Shure Says Breaking Law Should Be OK if You Sound Good.

Stevie Converse — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:10:47 -0700

Reform Groups Tell FCC that D Block Needs New Leadership

Stevie Converse — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:10:30 -0700

A small set of public interest groups are back on the warpath regarding the D Block—that big piece of the 700MHz spectrum that the Federal Communications Commission tried to auction off in March as a combined commercial/public safety band. Nobody bid the FCC's minimal asking price for the zone, and now the Commission is running a proceeding on how to do it right the second time around.

Online Bandwidth Hogs to Be Cut Off at Trough?

Stevie Converse — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:05:45 -0700

The era of carefree, unlimited Internet browsing and downloading might be coming to an end.

Industry leaders Comcast and Time Warner Cable have started testing traffic-metering and management techniques that seek to rein in heavy usage, and AT&T says such limits are inevitable for the most extreme users of its network.

The UK Broadband Infrastructure and the Debate We Should Be Having

Stevie Converse — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:51:31 -0700

This article from the London Times is useful both for its substance and for what it says about the sorry state of the debate in the U.S. While the U.K. has much higher available penetration and speed than the U.S., it is considered rather pokey and slow for Europe.

FCC Ancillary Authority in Comcast/BitTorrent

Stevie Converse — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:51:42 -0700

Cable gets a lot of mileage out of repeating things over and over until folks believe it's true. Today on Telecom Mythbusters I'd like to focus on the question of “ancillary” authority and regulating broadband. The cable guys generally circulate two myths about this.

The Most Important Wireless Conference of the Year — IS4CWN '08

Stevie Converse — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:08:03 -0700

There are an endless number of conferences out there, many of them quite good. But there is one conference I never skip if I can possibly make it — the International Summit For Community Wireless.

D.C. Circuit to Comcast: Making You Obey the Law Is Not a 'Vendetta.'

Stevie Converse — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:16:28 -0700

When an industry challenging agency action loses the sympathy of the D.C. Cir., it is a good sign that someone overreached just a tad. In apparent preparation for the The Big Cable Show in New Orleans this week, the D.C.

D Block Rides Again! And the NPRM Is Already Released!

Stevie Converse — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:33:38 -0700

If I weren't generally pleased with my quick flip through of the Commission's Latest Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on D Block, I would declare it a true sign of the coming of the Apocalypse.

Reserving Judgment on Sprint/Clearwire/Google/Intel/ForcesofDarkness Deal

Stevie Converse — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:42:10 -0700

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

FCC Inspector General Report Finds No Wrongdoing in Spectrum Auction

Stevie Converse — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:18:29 -0700

The Federal Communications Commission's Inspector General concluded in a report released Friday that a combination of factors led to the lack of bidders -- there was only one -- for spectrum to build a public-private network that could be used for emergency communications.

Testimony by Harold Feld at Stanford University

Holiday Shapiro — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:12:33 -0700

Well, that was fun. I reprint my testimony as prepared, not as delivered. I also cut a very insider joke. I'd planned to start: “Mr. Chairman, I understand that this is the open Commission meeting, so it is perhaps no surprise that we are running an hour late. Also, as I have not had time to complete this testimony, I ask for editorial privileges.”