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16 December 2009

CTIA and Public Knowledge Debate on Net Neutrality

Filed under: mobile network operators, networking, telecom, voip - 16 Dec 2009

What was interesting about this debate between the CTIA and Public Knowledge, which took on the subject of net neutrality and how the proposed FCC rules should be modified for mobile network operators, if …

5 October 2009

The Complex, Multi-faceted Net Neutrality Debate

A little more than a week ago, l met with Chris Guttman-McCabe, Amy Storey, and David Redl of CTIA. This time around, the subject was net neutrality and how it should apply …

21 September 2009

Net Neutrality and CTIA Straw Men

Read FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s speech on net neutrality and then read the CTIA’s response to it. I’m not sure these two letters are about the same thing. Here’s a quote from the CTIA response:
As a justification …

25 August 2009

CTIA: Apples and Oranges Revisited

I got the opportunity to talk with Chris Guttman-McCabe, Amy Storey, and David Redl of CTIA on Monday. After giving them a bad time on my blog over the years, it was nice to have an actual conversation with the CTIA. I give them credit for engaging me in conversation.

Having had this conversation, I understand where they are coming from. I appreciate that they are trying to bring some facts to an otherwise emotionally charged debate about the state of the mobile telephony industry in the US.

With that in mind, here are the areas we talked about:

13 August 2009

CTIA: Apples and Oranges

Filed under: mobile network operators, telecom - 13 Aug 2009

Picking on the CTIA is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel–they make it so easy. Their latest attempt at misinformation is their supposed “debunking” of

9 November 2008

CTIA Against Spectrum Caps, Against Competition

Filed under: connectivity, mobile network operators, politics, telecom - 09 Nov 2008

The latest post on the CTIA blog didn’t make a lot of sense. They were arguing against spectrum caps. Of course, they did nothing to directly explain what spectrum caps are …

27 September 2008

Reducing Roadblocks For More Towers

Filed under: mobile network operators, politics - 27 Sep 2008

While I am known not to agree with the CTIA on a great many things, I do like to point out when I think they’re going in the right direction. A recent …

2 April 2008

CTIA Thinks Smart Pipes Are The Right Answer

Filed under: connectivity, mobile network operators - 02 Apr 2008

BTS (Base Transceiver Station).Image from Wikipedia

The folks at the CTIA–the asscociation, not the trade show–are …

29 March 2008

Why Are UK Companies Coming To CTIA?

Filed under: business, mobile network operators - 29 Mar 2008

Source: WikipediaI got an interesting email from the inbox for The Mobile Technology Weblog

14 March 2008

The CTIA And Double-Standards On Text Messaging

Filed under: mobile network operators - 14 Mar 2008

Amazing, the comments I posted to this post on the CTIA blog got posted! One of them even got responded to. Someone must be asleep at the switch. :)

Carriers don’t block text messages between users, they say. They probably …

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