Tech at Night: AT&T, T-Mobile, Unions, FCC
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | March 21st at 11:30 PM |
So, read any good Tech posts lately? OK, I couldn’t think of a better way than that tonight to introduce a pair of RedState posts on the top story of the moment: AT&T’s announced plans to acquire T-Mobile USA from the Germans. It seems that there are two major conservative perspectives on this deal. One was described by LaborUnionReport on Sunday: if the non-union T-Mobile | Read More »
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Barack Obama,
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fred upton,
Greg Walden,
Internet,
iPad,
iPhone,
iPod Nano,
Mary Bono Mack,
Net Neutrality,
NLRB,
right to work,
T-Mobile,
trade,
Unions,
wireless
There is no need to block an AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | March 21st at 09:00 AM |
In the fast-paced, highly-competitive market of wireless phone and Internet access, this announcement stands out. The wireless carrier with the second-most subscribers, AT&T, is to acquire the number four carrier, T-Mobile USA. Some would say that this is a grave threat to competitiveness, risks reducing competition and increasing prices on everyone, and so should be stopped by the benevolent masters of the Obama administration. I | Read More »
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FCC,
Internet,
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LightSquared,
LTE,
MetroPCS,
sprint,
T-Mobile,
US Cellular,
Verizon,
WiMAX,
wireless
Tech at Night: FCC Danger, Lefty Hypocrisy, Eric Schmidt, AT&T
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | March 19th at 03:30 AM |
Long week on my end, but thankfully it’s over as soon as I’m done writing this. But the top story is danger at the FCC. The regulator is still threatening to overstep its bounds and circumvent the Telecommunications Act, which strictly limits the amount of power the FCC has over Information Services. So now they want to redefine high-speed Internet access as something new and | Read More »
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Al Franken,
AT&T,
Barack Obama,
Barbara Boxer,
Bias,
Commerce Department,
CPB,
Eric Schmidt,
Hypocrisy,
iPhone,
Julius Genachowski,
Net Neutrality,
Netflix,
New York Times,
Regulatory Reform,
Tethering,
wireless
Sherrod Brown admits free trade in oil will save us (and himself)
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | March 17th at 11:30 AM |
You may have heard that there was an election in Ohio last year. Popular Governor Ted Strickland (D) was defeated in his re-election campaign by John Kasich (R), and Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher (D) was crushed in the Senate race by former Bush advisor Rob Portman (R). Senator Sherrod Brown (D) has sure noticed. He’s also noticed that gas prices are going up, and up, | Read More »
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2012,
Barack Obama,
Drill Here Drill Now Pay Less,
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ohio,
Oil,
OPEC,
Sherrod Brown
Tech at “Night”: AT&T, Netflix, Net Neutrality, FCC, Twitter, Space Lasers
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | March 17th at 07:30 AM |
This edition of Tech at Night is unfortunately delayed. It’s almost 4am now as I’m able to start this (7am eastern) because I had a bout of Net Neutrality to deal with. All websites loaded at the same speed on my DSL: zero. Total downtime. So, late or not, let’s go. As I warned on Monday, Net Neutrality is forcing ISPs like AT&T to impose | Read More »
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AT&T,
California,
China,
FCC,
Fred Campbell,
Jay Rockefeller,
Jerry Brown,
Jim Langevin,
Lasers,
Net Neutrality,
Netflix,
security,
space,
Twitter
Tech at Night: Welcome to Net Neutrality
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | March 15th at 03:00 AM |
Good evening. I’m going to start tonight with a clarification from Friday. While I identified last week’s Net Neutrality push poll with Consumer Reports, the poll was actually signed on by CR’s publisher, Consumers Union, and conducted by the Consumer Federation of America. As that one television network says, I have now made a report, and you can decide for yourself what to make of | Read More »
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Al Franken,
AT&T,
Barry Diller,
Congressional Review Act,
Consumer Federation of America,
Consumer Repurts,
Consumers Union,
FCC,
Internet,
Net Neutrality,
Qualcomm
Tech at Night: Net Neutrality, Search Neutrality, Consumer Reports push polling, Internet Tax
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | March 12th at 03:30 AM |
As I began work on tonight’s late Tech at Night, reports came out of an explosion at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture, Japan. As Japan continues to deal with an unimaginably strong earthquake and then a devastating tsunami caused by that quake, I hope nobody takes those special circumstances and tries to argue against clean, effective power generation technology in the general case. | Read More »
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Barack Obama,
Commerce Department,
Consumer Reports,
CTIA,
Darrell Issa,
Earthquakes,
FCC,
Federal Spectrum Relocation,
Free Press,
Fukushima,
Gigi Sohn,
Google,
Internet Tax,
iPhone,
Japan,
joe barton,
Julius Genachowski,
Mark Warner,
Marsha Blackburn,
MICC,
Microsoft,
Mike Lee,
Net Neutrality,
Olympia Snowe,
Polls,
Privacy,
Roger Wicker,
Ron Wyden,
Search Neutrality,
Sendai,
tea party,
wireless
Tech at Night: FCC, Net Neutrality, Amazon Tax Hypocrisy
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | March 10th at 02:30 AM |
I know nobody wants to talk about Net Neutrality right now when unions are the issue giving everyone warm feelings right now, but there were important hearings held Wednesday. Greg Walden’s House subcommittee held hearings on HJ Res 37, which disapproves of Net Neutrality to invoke the Congressional Review act and overrule the FCC’s power grab. On top of that, the FCC responded to the | Read More »
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Anonymous,
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CREDO Mobile,
Derek Turner,
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fred upton,
Free Press,
Greg Walden,
HSPA+,
Internet,
Julius Genachowski,
Lee Terry,
Marsha Blackburn,
Net Neutrality,
sprint,
T-Mobile,
Unions,
WiMAX,
Working Assets
Tech at Night: Google, NLRB, FCC, Net Neutrality, Patents
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | March 8th at 12:07 AM |
Much to cover, and less time to cover it in! So many important things I don’t even know what to hit first. So, I’ll be biased and hit what I found out about from RedState. Google and the NLRB teamed up to promote unionization, with Google providing free ad space. That’s a problem for three reasons. First, the NLRB is supposed to be the impartial | Read More »
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Greg Walden,
Harry Reid,
Internet Kill Switch,
James Risch,
Joe Lieberman,
Maria Cantwell,
Mike Crapo,
Net Neutrality,
NLRB,
obamacare,
Patent,
Patent Reform Act,
Patents,
Patrick Leahy,
Playstation 3,
Rand Paul,
Regulation,
Sony,
Susan Collins,
Unions,
Washington Examiner
Tech at Night: Net Neutrality, FCC, iPad
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | March 5th at 12:30 AM |
Good evening, I wrote in my best Alfred Hitchcock impression. Top story as we go into the weekend: our friendly neighborhood House Republicans are pressing on with their oversight of the FCC and Net Neutrality in particular. The resolution disapproving of Net Neutrality is postponed, but instead we’re getting pressure on the FCC to justify its actions economically. Good on Greg Walden, Fred Upton, and | Read More »
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iPad 2,
Lee Terry,
Net Neutrality,
Nintendo,
Nintendo 64,
youtube
Tech at night: Net Neutrality, ICANN, Basic security
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | March 2nd at 11:00 PM |
Welcome to the remarkably early Tech at Night tonight. When I have my initial preparation done by 6pm, I’m not going to stay up until midnight to do the actual writing. Not gonna do it. Wouldn’t be prudent. We start with some mild bad news: the resolution disapproving of Net Neutrality has been delayed. Fred Upton is getting recognition for his active work challenging the | Read More »
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Andrew McLaughlin,
Barack Obama,
FCC,
fred upton,
Google,
Greg Walden,
ICANN,
Internet,
Net Neutrality,
security,
vint cerf
Tech at Night: Net Neutrality, Copyright, Patent, Security
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | March 1st at 03:30 AM |
Hello! There’s no one clear theme of things to discuss tonight. It’s a diverse list of topics, so let’s just muddle on through and see what’s going on. We’ve got some good news from what the Republicans in Washington are going. On the Senate side, the side we haven’t heard nearly as much about thanks to the Obama-Reid majority there, conservative Republicans are taking key | Read More »
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Americans for Prosperity,
Anonymous,
Barack Obama,
CCIA,
Chuck Schumer,
copyright,
Eric Holder,
FCC,
fred upton,
Greg Walden,
John Boehner,
Kelly Ayotte,
Marco Rubio,
Net Neutrality,
pat toomey,
Patent,
Patrick Leahy,
security,
Senate
Tech at Night: Internet Tax, Copyright, Security, Net Neutrality
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | February 26th at 05:30 AM |
And now I really push the definition of Tech at Night, starting to write this at 2am. I’d originally planned to skip tonight’s edition, and instead just sleep. But I woke up, and sleep isn’t returning anytime soon, so let’s make the rounds of tech and policy. Some Democrats still haven’t learned the lesson of the PCCC. The far left alternative to the DCCC published | Read More »
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Cisco,
COICA,
Consumer Federation of America,
copyright,
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Harry Reid,
Huawei,
Internet,
Internet Tax,
Net Neutrality,
New York Times,
pccc,
Search Neutrality,
Universal Service Fund
Tech at Night: Copyright, COICA, Google, Net Neturality, Internet Kill Switch
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | February 24th at 03:30 AM |
On Monday I did the first half of my catchup work. Now we’ll do the second half. And one of the big issues coming up is copyright. Over the last thirty years, copyright in America has been radically reformed. While traditionally it worked as patents still do work, as a temporary grant of monopoly enforceable in civil courts, we’ve gradually moved them into the realm | Read More »
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Eric Holder,
Google,
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Internet Kill Switch,
John Stossel,
MPAA,
Napster,
Net Neutrality,
Privacy,
RIAA,
Sony,
Street View,
WiSpy
The Return of Tech at Night: Net Neutrality, Internet Kill Switch
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | February 22nd at 01:30 AM |
I’m back. CPAC week came and went. Then another week came and went after the horrible cold I got at CPAC. But now I’m healthy again and it’s time to start catching up. Though there’s no way I’m going to post on every tidbit I’ve run across in the last two weeks, I can try to hit the highlights. And let’s start with the fact | Read More »
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Anna Eshoo,
ARRA,
Collin Petersen,
comcast,
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cpac,
FCC,
fred upton,
Greg Walden,
Internet,
Internet Kill Switch,
Joe Lieberman,
Julius Genachowski,
Level 3,
Net Neutrality,
Netflix,
obamacare,
pbs,
pccc,
stimulus,
Susan Collins
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