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Ericsson released the results of its latest 鈥淢obility Report鈥� today 鈥� and it provides significant data to help drive smart policy decisions not only from the U.S. government, but for governments around the world. The report is based on in-depth data traffic measurements in mobile networks from the world鈥檚 largest installed base of live networks. So there is a consistent comparison, these measurements [...]
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Under a beautiful blue sky in the Rose Garden this morning, President Obama laid out the three key questions that drove the priorities in his just-released Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 budget: 鈥淗ow do we make America a magnet for new jobs?聽 How do we give our workers the skills they need to do those jobs?聽 And how do we make sure that hard work leads to a decent living?鈥� Some of the key initiatives put forward [...]
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Sparky Anderson, who managed World Series-winning teams in Cincinnati and Detroit, once remarked, 鈥淲e鈥檙e getting close to opening day.聽 I don鈥檛 know if that鈥檚 a good or bad thing.鈥澛� January 3rd, 2013 marked American policymaking鈥檚 opening day:聽 the start of the 113th Congress.聽聽 We in the tech industry see the start of a new season of policymaking as a good thing because ours is an industry rooted [...]
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The 2012 version of the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) is history, and the next phase has begun, i.e., trying to figure out what it all means!聽 Many theories abound within the Twitter-verse, blogs and various email strings.聽 At a minimum, WCIT served as a lens that brought into greater focus the risks and opportunities that lay before us.聽 With only 89 countries thus far [...]
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Today, at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), a majority of national delegations adopted revisions to the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs) that could lead to significant challenges to a free and open Internet, as well to how global information and communications technology (ICT) companies offer Internet-based services.聽 The United States joined with other [...]
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At long last, 鈥淲CIT-12鈥� is upon us.聽 Delegates to the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications, commonly referred to simply as 鈥淲CIT,鈥� are boarding flights for a two-week sojourn to the cosmopolitan city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.聽 The forecast is unsurprisingly for warm, sunny days, but that may well be the only accurate forecasting we can do.聽 The outcome of the confab, [...]
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There鈥檚 a major push on around the country to expand high-speed broadband in urban and rural areas alike.聽 One project that has attracted an enormous amount of attention is Google鈥檚 effort to create an ultra-fast network in Kansas City, Mo.聽 With that project moving forward, 91pro视频鈥檚 Robert Hoffman sat down with U.S. Senator Jerry Moran of the Sunflower State to talk about the impact that broadband expansion [...]
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It is difficult to point to a specific item that has changed our daily lives more during the past decade than the smart phone.聽 Having instant access to news, information, communications, and entertainment is one of the high-tech industry鈥檚 real game-changers.聽 Mobile technology has brought not just increased productivity, but also new businesses and jobs to the U.S. economy.聽 But as an increasing [...]
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Mobile broadband has dramatically changed how Americans access information.聽 It is spurring innovation, expanding educational opportunities, increasing productivity, and -with the explosive popularity of smartphones -becoming the primary pathway to the Internet for many Americans.聽 However, a supply shortage is accompanying the increase in demand.聽 Spectrum, the vehicle over which data from wireless [...]
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Few proposals lawmakers have been considering in recent weeks aimed at restoring our fiscal discipline have the immediate ability to generate revenue for the Treasury, stimulate direct domestic investment, spur innovation, and create jobs than spectrum auctions. At the moment, spectrum is in short supply.聽 Currently in use for 鈥渙ver the air鈥� television delivery, which is consumed by fewer than 10 percent [...]