Telecom Policy Report articles from March 2007

Telecom Policy Report archives from March 2007

Study Says M2Z Public-Safety Proposal Could Save Big Tax Bucks.
March 5, 2007... Benefits to the American taxpayer could total between $18 billion and $25 billion if the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approves the plan submitted by M2Z Networks to build a family-friendly wireless nationwide broadband network, a...

NARUC Board Sets Association Telecom Policy.
March 5, 2007... At the recently concluded Winter Committee Meeting, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' (NARUC) board of directors passed a series of resolutions advancing the association's telecommunications agenda: >>TC-1,...

Telecom Action Around The Country.
March 5, 2007... >>Pennsylvania A state appeals court reversed the approval of the 2005 merger between Verizon and MCI, saying state regulators failed to protect ratepayers. In a 30-page ruling, the Commonwealth Court said the state Public Utility...

Celcos Take 'Show Me State' To Tax Task.
March 5, 2007... Wireless carriers serving Missouri are mad as hell, and they aren't going to take it anymore. Several of them are taking "hundreds" of the state's cities to court, citing wrongful taxation. Reports from local news organizations say that,...

The Analog-To-Digital Transition Affects Cars, Too.
March 5, 2007... While Congress, the broadcast industry and owners of analog TV sets continue to fret over the analog-to-digital transition that finalized in 2009, owners of GM vehicles equipped with analog OnStar services (about 10 percent of GM's vehicles...

Caller ID Spoofing Round Two: Bill Now Heads To Full Committee.
March 5, 2007... A bill to outlaw Caller ID spoofing aimed at defrauding or causing harm is headed to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce following the voice-vote approval of the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, which completed its...

Senate Committee Polls Industry On USF's Future.
March 5, 2007... Total Universal Service Fund (USF) spending reportedly has grown from $1.8 billion in 1997 to what could be $7.2 billion this year. While these support amounts are large, some say they must be kept in perspective. Total telecommunications...

On The Hill: The Internet's Father Talks About The Future.
March 5, 2007... Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) is back in the saddle again, chairing the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and The Internet and hosting the Internet's real father - Sir Timothy Berners-Lee of the World Wide Web Consortium and MIT - after 12...

House Dems Grill Commissioners, Promise Continued Oversight.
March 19, 2007... Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, is getting to like this position again, and he and his Democratic subcommittee colleagues last week hosted a rescheduled drilling of...

Commentary: How Policy Is Influencing The Migration To An Ultra-Wide Broadband 100 Gbps Cloud.
March 19, 2007... By Hugh Carter Donahue, Ph.D. Inertia; differing telco, cable and wireless broadband capacities; distinct standards regimes; cable industry industrial design; a regulatory battle; disparate activity in wireless; and user pliancy toward...

The World Prepares To Flip The BPL Switch.
March 19, 2007... Predictions are that 2007 will be the hottest year yet for broadband over power line (BPL) - for in-home distribution of broadband, so-called "access BPL" for delivery of broadband to homes and businesses, and for use as a technology to...

Around The States.
March 19, 2007... Pennsylvania A state appeals court has reversed Pennsylvania's approval of a 2005 merger between Verizon and MCI, saying state regulators failed to protect ratepayers. In a 30-page ruling, the Commonwealth Court said the state Public...