According to Nathan Newman, telecommunications policy analyst and blogger at nathannewman.org, the real fight for wireless business isn't between carriers, but between carriers and providers of free apps and services. Read More »
According to Cisco's Visual Networking Index for 2011 — a forecast of digital trends and online usage — the Internet is about to become a whole lot busier. Read More »
If you repeat a made-up falsehood over and over again, will reasonable people start to believe it? That's what the critics of the AT&T/T-Mobile merger are hoping. They've manufactured a fact, claiming that the AT&T/T-Mobile merger will lead to 20,000 layoffs of T-Mobile workers. The problem is: they are just plain wrong. Read More »
A group of 29 American universities has announced a plan to create Gig.U, an online network many times faster than the public Internet. Gig.U would service communities adjacent to universities — most of them outside major cities — and is designed to encourage high-tech startups in those areas by offering 1 gigabit connections. Read More »
According to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, jobs in the wireless industry have been disappearing, even as revenues have climbed. Read More »
The two largest labor organizations in the world stood together to denounce T-Mobile USA’s practice of forcing managers to threaten and intimidate employees in America seeking the opportunity to vote on joining the Communications Workers of America. Read More »
Big job-creating innovations are the result of "innovation platforms" that enable entrepreneurs and companies to build new devices, networks, and applications. In the 1990s, the new platform was the Internet. Businesses invested billions of dollars and created millions of jobs, even after accounting for the dot-com bust. Today's next big job-creating innovation platform is the 4G mobile Internet. Read More »
Investment in broadband positively drives economic development worldwide, according to a new report by the Broadband Commission for Digital Development. The report reviews nearly a hundred research reports and case studies on the economic effect of broadband Internet access, and concludes that the outcomes are overwhelmingly positive. Read More »
The world's top economies are increasingly dependent on the Internet, according to a new report by the McKinsey Global Institute. Read More »
The merger of AT&T and T-Mobile will create as many as 96,000 new, quality jobs, accelerate broadband build out, and improve wireless communications and innovation, the Communications Workers of America said today in a filing submitted to the Federal Communications Commission. Read More »
