UPDATE: This is a Community Broadband Hearing by Columbia University, not an FCC Field Hearing. Sorry for the confusion!
Friend Bruce Lincoln, Entrepreneur in Residence at Columbia Engineering’s Center for Technology, Innovation & Community Engagement, sent us an invite for a Community Broadband Hearing taking place next Friday, December 11 at Columbia. I’m planning to attend, and [...]

An open Internet is what keeps us productive and competitive. Skype lets people make cheap phone calls. Video sharing lets people do web-conferences. Follow and join this fight.

This is a little late, but the video of the presentations for the “Has Divestiture Worked? A 25th Anniversary Assessment of the Break Up of AT&T” event at which I presented is now available online.
The embedded video is from session 3, and the discussion about NYCwireless happens between 25:00 and 38:00.

Thanks to ISOC for getting [...]

This announcement comes from our friend Bruce Kushnick, who’s one of the people putting on this excellent event. “Divestiture” and “Structural Separation” is something that NYCwireless has been fighting for almost since we started, since Verizon and AT&T’s vertically-integrated monopolies make it very hard for us to do some of the work that we do [...]

Lost in the (understandably) overwhelming media coverage about the new President of the United States, the FCC has voted to open “white spaces” between TV channels to unlicensed use. This is a big decision that will lead to more open devices and a big push for extending wireless internet access to areas where the internet [...]

As a follow up to the City Council Hearing on White Space Devices, the FCC has completed their tests of devices that use spectrum white spaces, and concluded that they work well with the other existing devices using the same spectrum:
A report released yesterday by the Federal Communications Commissionconcluded that using empty airwaves to provide free [...]

This is the testimony that I gave and submitted to the NY City Council:
NYCwireless New York City Council Testimony on White Spaces (pdf)
NYCwireless Testimony to the New York City Council
Regulation and Use of the Unallocated Portion of the Radio Spectrum, Also Known as White Spaces
Ladies and Gentlemen of the New York City Council and friends [...]

The New York City Council is holding a hearing on “The Regulation and Use of the Unallocated Portion of the Radio Spectrum, Also Known as White Spaces” on Monday, September 28th @ 10am in the Committee Room at City Hall. I will be there presenting on behalf of NYCwireless. We need as many people as [...]