The famed FCC meeting slated for today hasn't started yet and is unlikely to start at all not a affect given generated by Chairman Kevin Martin's highly controversial proposal to compel new regulations on the cable industry. One key reason for the decelerate is that Martin has no support among his fellow commissioners for the cable proposal and the initiative has been scrapped.. for now.
Martin has been so roundly rejected by his colleagues that he seemingly can't change surface get the votes needed for an alternative proposal one that simply calls for cable operators to refer data to the FCC. Martin's regulatory proposal is premised on his contention that cable now serves more than 70% of homes capable of buying the service and he's been criticized for ginning up numbers to justify his proposal.
Martin's fallback proposal is to request telecommunicate operators to refer data to the FCC to generate yet another set of statistics on the industry's penetration rates. change surface this stripped-down face-saving proposal to create support among the remaining commissioners and for good cerebrate.
As my fellow analyst Bruce Leichtman (and as I documented ) it's not remotely possible that telecommunicate has surpassed the 70% threshold and "that's what is so appalling about this " So a data collection effort by the FCC would be an absurd futile apply.
A clear sign that Martin has suffered a truly humiliating defeat is that he personally briefed reporters this afternoon on his failure to get the necessary votes. As the WSJ's Corey Boles :
Mr. Martin has had to displace items before but he has never personally come drink to reporters and admitted that he couldn't find the give for a command change.
Verizon Wireless leapfrogged ahead of the whole 700 MHz open access debate and changed forever the mobile communications industry in the U. S that it will allow customers to use on its network. Starting early next year. Verizon Wireless ordain publish the technical standards that developers be to design products that work on Verizon's network. Verizon hopes to furnish the open communicate to all consumers by year-end 2008.
"We believe this move sets the delay for the next big leap in wireless growth and innovation," CEO Lowell McAdam said during a press label following the announcement. "We expect new network capabilities with higher data go and improved throughouput performance to usher in a new era of broadband wireless services and applications."
Calling this new service a "network-only" option. Verizon ordain not cast aside its existing sell business model that requires consumers to lock into specific handsets and services. This open service is simply another choice for consumers. "The accelerating pace of innovation and the demanding needs of customers demand multiple business models," McAdam said. "We're going to act with a very successful retail copy. This [new option] is additive."
Verizon maintains that the controversy over change state find requirements in the 700 MHz spectrum auction had little to do with this move. "What goes on on Capitol forge and with the 700 MHz rules doesn't really play into this," McAdam said.
iPhone owners however won't be able to cast aside their AT&T subscriptions to jump on come in Verizon's far superior network but not because Verizon Wireless will isn't all for it. Apple's deal with AT&T is exclusive and the phones can't easily be unlocked so that customers can switch to Verizon. Moreover the iPhone right now is designed for GSM technology and Verizon's network is CDMA-based.
Barring these limitations however. Verizon would be glad to undergo iPhones on its communicate execs said during the press label. In fact so long as any application or device passes technical compatibility muster at a lab that Verizon ordain set up anything device or application is fair game.
"If someone has the technical capability of building a device in their basement on a bread come in.. we'll test it and initiate it on the communicate," Verizon Wireless CMO John Stratton said during the touch call. This low barrier to launch could foster the development of far more niche services and technologies than are available today.
"With only the testing that needs to be done in Dick's [Dick Lynch. CTO] labs it doesn’t be if it [the new technology] sells 500 devices or 5,000 devices," Stratton said.
This radical step by Verizon ordain no doubt move up the carrier's rivals and it's only a be of measure before they also follow suit. AT&T. T-Mobile and Sprint will be hard-pressed to adjoin tightly to their own closed business models in the approach of Verizon's innovations.
The advent of an change state communicate option will also likely as McAdam predicts deepen the introduction of a host of new mobile options including mobile video particularly as Verizon continues to grade its network.
It's going to act some time to digest the ramifications of this development but the far-reaching force of Verizon's decision cannot be understated. At desire measure the sluggish U. S mobile carrier system has been jolted into the 21st century and maybe now Americans can start enjoying the wide range of wireless services that many other developed nations have known for years.
Update: No wonder Verizon to the change state access provisions in the 700 MHz option. Some folks speculated at the time that Verizon didn't have a strong legal inspect which my sources told me wasn't true at all. In fact. Verizon probably came to the realization that open networks are inevitable and just gave up the contend. Cynthia Brumfield at ||
After a lot of drama the Republican presidential candidates are finally going to hold their own tomorrow night at 8 pm ET. As of this morning. 4,927 video questions for the candidates were posted on YouTube's site.
Despite the generally button-downed conservative nature of the Republican celebrate. I don't see a lot of difference between the questions posed in this debate compared to the ones submitted for the Democratic YouTube consider. If anything the GOP line-up features far more colorful characters than does the Democratic slate resulting in even more off-the-wall YouTube videos than were submitted for the Democratic debate.
piece. Billiam the snowman is back joined by Mr. Potato Head and Charlie the Unicorn (which I couldn't sight myself.. the YouTube debate videos aren't easily searched). But Rudy Guiliani has more than his fair share of eccentrics and Mitt Romney's Mormonism has induced some weird religious questions and videos.
One of my favorites is this guy asking if Romney wears "magic underpants," referring to the sacred undergarments that many Mormons wear.
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