Why No One Should Talk To or Read Anything from the Heartland Institute

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on December 26, 2009 under News   Tags Tags: , , ,    Comments Comments

I had a very interesting email exchange today with Thomas Cheplick, a reporter at the Heartland Institute. For those of you paying attention over the past few years to the Telecom sector, you’ll remember The Heartland Institute as a Sock Puppet Organization that “that call themselves independent but have ties among each other and to [...]


Community Broadband Hearing at Columbia University on Dec. 11

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on December 4, 2009 under Events, News, Policy   Tags Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,    Comments Comments

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 [...]


Response to City Wireless Internet Access for New York City Parks and Other Open Spaces (DoITT RFI)

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on June 9, 2009 under News, Policy   Tags Tags: , , , , , ,    Comments Comments

NYCwireless submitted this response to the DoITT RFI City Wireless Internet Access for New York City Parks and Other Open Spaces” (PIN: 85809RFI0045) [PDF].
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RFI Response to City Wireless Internet Access for New York City Parks and Other Open Spaces
Prepared by:

Dana Spiegel, Executive Director, NYCwireless
Rob Kelley and Anthony Townsend, Executive Board Members
Overview
NYCwireless is a [...]


Video of Has Divestiture Worked? A 25th Anniversary Assessment of the Break Up of AT&T now online

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on April 1, 2009 under News   Tags Tags: , ,    Comments Comments Off

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 [...]


Event: Has Divestiture Worked? A 25th Anniversary Assessment of the Break Up of AT&T

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on February 24, 2009 under Events, News   Tags Tags: , ,    Comments Comments Off

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 [...]


NYC Broadband Advisory Committee Public Hearing in Staten Island

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on February 20, 2009 under Events, News   Tags Tags: , , ,    Comments Comments Off

Its been quite some time since the last Broadband Advisory Committee Meeting, but the final meeting, taking place in Staten Island, has finally been scheduled. We hope to see many of you on Thursday, March 5, 2009 from 11am-3pm @ CUNY College of Staten Island (Building 1P):

Broadband Committee holds Public Meeting on Staten Island’s Broadband [...]


FCC Votes to Open TV White Spaces for Unlicensed Use

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on November 3, 2008 under News   Tags Tags: , , ,    Comments Comments

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 [...]


NY City Council Hearing: The Regulation and Use of the Unallocated Portion of the Radio Spectrum, Also Known as White Spaces on Sep 28 @ 10am

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on September 27, 2008 under Events, News, Policy   Tags Tags: , , , , ,    Comments Comments Off

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 [...]