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 [...]
Why No One Should Talk To or Read Anything from the Heartland Institute
Published by Dana Spiegel on December 26, 2009 under News
Tags: Hotspot, Policy, sock puppet, Telecom
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Community Broadband Hearing at Columbia University on Dec. 11
Published by Dana Spiegel on December 4, 2009 under Events, News, Policy
Tags: Broadband, columbia university, Community, FCC, Fiber, government, Net Neutrality, New York City, NY City Council, Policy, Spectrum, Telecom
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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 [...]
Video of Has Divestiture Worked? A 25th Anniversary Assessment of the Break Up of AT&T now online
Published by Dana Spiegel on April 1, 2009 under News
Tags: FCC, Policy, Telecom
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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
Published by Dana Spiegel on February 24, 2009 under Events, News
Tags: FCC, Policy, Telecom
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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
Published by Dana Spiegel on February 20, 2009 under Events, News
Tags: Broadband Advisory Committee, New York City, Policy, Telecom
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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 [...]
CITI’s 25th Anniversary Celebration Invite and Discount Code for NYCwireless Members
Published by Dana Spiegel on September 30, 2008 under Events, News
Tags: CITI, NYCwireless, Research, Telecom
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Eli Noam, the Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) emailed me an invite to CITI’s 25th Anniversary Celebration and Conference. All NYCwireless members can attend this great celebration at a discount! We’ll be there, and hope you can be also.
See below for the invitation and discount code.
We would be pleased if the members [...]
Diamond Consultants to publicly brief Broadband Advisory Committee regarding the Bloomberg Administration’s plans for bridging the digital divide
Published by Dana Spiegel on July 24, 2008 under Events, News, Policy
Tags: Broadband Advisory Committee, Digital Divide, Muniwireless, New York City, NY City Council, Policy, Telecom
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I just received this notice from a contact at the City Council. Everyone should attend if they can (unfortunately I won’t be able to go) and report back.
Very curious too that:
(a) The report from Diamond Consultants is only about the digital divide, since I was under the impression that the research was supposed to be [...]
Broad Coalition Fights for Net Freedom
Published by Dana Spiegel on April 24, 2006 under Policy
Tags: Net Neutrality, Telecom
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FreePress just launched the Save the Internet campaign and website, where you can find out more about the battle that is being fought to keep our internet freedoms (free as in unfettered access, not free as in no cost). I’d recommend that everyone read and contact their Senators and Representatives in order to make sure [...]
