Tech at Night: Rural coalition questions John Deere on LightSquared; FCC, Obama, and SOPA picking winners and losers in industry
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 8th at 02:30 AM |
The FCC’s excuse for delaying the AT&T/Qualcomm spectrum deal was to work on the AT&T/T-Mobile deal. The latter has been withdrawn, so what’s the excuse now? AT&T and Sprint both get bad reviews. Sprint’s Nextel deal went through. AT&T’s T-Mobile deal is getting blocked. Hmm. Looks shady, which is why I support Chuck Grassley’s push for FCC transparency involving LightSquared, even though so far their | Read More »
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AT&T,
Chuck Grassley,
Connect America Fund,
Dan Lungren,
FCC,
Google,
Google Wallet,
GPS,
Hollywood,
Internet,
Internet Kill Switch,
John Deere,
LightSquared,
Net Neutrality,
Nextel,
Qualcomm,
Slippery Slope,
SOPA,
Spectrum,
Sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
Subsidies,
T-Mobile,
Tech at Night,
transparency,
Universal Service Fund,
Universal Service Fund Reform,
Verizon
DoJ targets AT&T: The story behind the story [Updated]
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | August 31st at 02:30 PM |
Updated below… Today it was announced that the Department of Justice will attempt to block AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile. The deal is needed for technical and regulatory reasons to allow AT&T to compete in the 4G wireless market with Verizon, Sprint/Clearwire, and with the upcoming competitor LightSquared. So why is the Department of Justice calling it bad for competition? Enter R. Gerard Salemme. It’s not | Read More »
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4G,
AT&T,
Barack Obama,
C Block,
Clearwire,
Competition,
Craig McCaw,
Culture of Corruption,
DTV,
Gerry Salemme,
ICO,
Justice Department,
Nextel,
R. Gerard Salemme,
Spectrum,
Sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
T-Mobile,
Verizon,
XO
Tech at Night: Twitter targets activists, SAFE data act expands regulation, California anti-tax referendum, Google, Apple, Anonymous
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | July 20th at 11:00 PM |
Twitter has a credibility problem on its hands, all of a sudden. Even as I’m getting blind link spam sent to me every single day on the site, Twitter has singled out a conservative activist group to have its accounts wiped out. Not only was the Empower Texans feed shut down, but every single employee’s personal feed was targeted as well. Twitter’s response has been | Read More »
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4G,
Aaron Swartz,
Amazon,
Amazon Tax,
Android,
Anonymous,
Antisec,
Anymode,
Apple,
AT&T,
California,
Civil Defense,
Competition,
Copyright,
Cybersecurity,
D Block,
Empower Texans,
Eric Schmidt,
FBI,
George Soros,
Google,
Herb Kohl,
HTC,
Internet Sales Tax,
JSTOR,
Larry Lessig,
Lulzsec,
Mary Bono Mack,
Net Neutrality,
Nextel,
Patent,
Privacy,
Public Knowledge,
Public Safety,
Referendum,
Regulation,
SAFE Data Act,
Samsung,
Science,
Sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
T-Mobile,
Tech at Night,
Twitter,
Wireless
The Sprint/George Soros argument on AT&T/T-Mobile makes no sense
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 1st at 05:00 PM |
If Sprint is weak, then it fears competition and favors oligopoly. Therefore, Sprint’s opposition to the AT&T/T-Mobile deal projects the deal would increase competition nationally. Regular readers of my Tech at Night series have seen me make the case for the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile USA by pointing out how it would improve competition because the two companies combined could compete better with | Read More »
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AT&T,
Competition,
Free Press,
George Soros,
Inflation,
Nextel,
Open Society Institute,
OSI,
PPI,
Public Knowledge,
Sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
T-Mobile,
Verizon,
Wireless
Tech at Night: George Soros wants your Internet, and the Democrats are peddling online censorship, and Ryan Giggs is still an adulterer
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 28th at 03:00 AM |
Have you ever noticed that the Soros-funded left never refers to Sprint Nextel by the firm’s full name? They only talk about Sprint. You know why? If they say Sprint Nextel, it’ll remind everyone that when #3 Sprint and #4 Nextel merged, wireless competition, prices, and service all improved. If you remember that fact, they think you might make the “wrong” predictions about #2 AT&T | Read More »
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AT&T,
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FCC,
Free Press,
George Soros,
Google,
Internet,
Lodsys,
Marsha Blackburn,
Media Access Project,
Media Reform,
Neo Marxists,
Net Neutrality,
Nextel,
OSI,
Patent Troll,
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PROTECT IP,
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Ryan Giggs,
Sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
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Twitter,
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