Will Europe Regulate Over the Top Services on the Mobile Internet?

By: fredcampbell (Diary)  |  March 19th at 10:24 AM  | 

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month, I was surprised that nobody had access to 4G mobile Internet services. How could Barcelona, the second largest city in Spain and host to the “world’s premier mobile industry event,” lack access to 4G? In the opening day keynote session, Vittorio Colao, Vodafone’s CEO, said Europe has only 6% of the world’s LTE connections, and Telefónica’s CEO, César Alierta, | Read More »

Susan Crawford’s Captive Audience Filled with Misplaced Fear

By: fredcampbell (Diary)  |  February 28th at 07:00 AM  | 

From the diaries by Neil Susan Crawford, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, is in our nation’s capital today to promote her new book, Captive Audience. The book declares the United States is suffering from broadband inequality because no “privately provided wired Internet access product . . . can compete with cable.” Its proposed solution to this alleged monopoly is government ownership and control | Read More »