Comcast exec: Cable operators may deploy 500,000 Wi-Fi hotspots
It is no secret that U.S. cable TV operators are jumping into Wi-Fi big time, and one industry executive is forecasting they could collectively deploy and run half a million Wi-Fi hotspots in the near future. The prediction came from David Don, Comcast's executive director-regulatory and public affairs, at the IPI Communications Summit.
500,000 WiFi Sites on Cable's Agenda
Cable operators collectively could run at least 500,000 WiFi hotspots nationwide in the very near future, according to David Don, Comcast’s executive director-regulatory and public affairs at the fifth annual Institute for Policy Innovation Communications (IPI) Summit in Washington.
Industry Seeks Certainty on Spectrum Auction Plans from Incoming FCC Chairman
Obama's nominee for FCC Chairman, Tom Wheeler, should provide industry participants with greater certainty as to how the commission will structure its upcoming spectrum incentive auction, lawyers representing carriers and broadcasters said at an event hosted by the Institute for Policy Innovation.
John Boehner's critics want to show him the door
House Speaker John Boehner's public image has been badly tarnished. It's mostly been by his own doing.
IPI panel highlights bipartisan support for wireless service tax reform
Online sales tax reform may get all the attention, but there is another complex network of Internet-centric taxes that backers of reform say should be re-examined as well.
Speakers: Restrictions on Verizon, AT&T Would Complicate Incentive Auction
The FCC’s imposition of bidding restrictions on Verizon Wireless and AT&T, Inc., in its incentive auction would further complicate what is expected to already be the world’s most complex spectrum sale, several speakers said today at the Institute for Policy Innovation’s annual Communications Summit in Washington.
Cable, Industry Notes
Increasing the amount of unlicensed spectrum available for Wi-Fi use is "a major policy objective" for Comcast, said Executive Director-Regulatory and Public Affairs David Don at the Institute for Policy Innovation's Communications Policy Summit Tuesday.
Moratorium on Internet Access Tax Should Become Permanent, Say CTIA, Coalition
A moratorium on taxation of Internet access should become permanent, said CTIA and the Internet Tax Freedom Act Coalition.
Success of Incentive Auction Not Guaranteed, Say Speakers at IPI Conference
Broadcast lawyer John Hane warned that the incentive auction could fail if the FCC doesn't get things right. "There are many, many, many paths to failure and only a fairly narrow set of paths to success," said Hane of Pillsbury Winthrop during a panel at an Institute for Policy Innovation conference.
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