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You are hereWireless SpectrumGoogle’s Civilian Surveillance Data + A U.S. Military 5G Network = Bad IdeaSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2018-02-05 11:39
SUMMARY What could possibly go wrong with a nationalized, dual-use, military-civilian, secure 5G wireless network to centralize all military and civilian U.S. transportation traffic control and management with Alphabet-Google as the only commercial wireless ISP “financing/anchor tenant?” Way too much. Google Fiber Pivots to Be Wireless ISP & FCC Spectrum Access AdministratorSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2016-10-31 11:33Don’t miss Google’s enduring big wireless ISP ambitions in the midst of all the noise and confusion about the future of Google Fiber. And also don’t miss Google’s grand ambitions to organize and dominate America’s spectrum-related information via its certification as a key FCC Spectrum Access System Administrator, given how little public attention it has gotten to date. Google continues to pivot its Internet access ambitions away from deploying capital-expensive fiber technology deployment to deploying much-less-capital-expensive unlicensed wireless access technology, which does not require digging and burying fiber, and which may only use free unlicensed spectrum. Google’s Secret US Loon Test Implicates the FCC, FAA, EPA, State, & DOD/NSASubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2015-12-17 12:59Are several arms of the U.S. Government giving Google special treatment to enable it to secretly conduct a nationwide, two-year, test of Project Loon -- Google’s ambitious scheme to be the first company to commercialize the stratosphere -- in a manner that risks public safety, and environmental, and other harms? America’s Bipartisan Spectrum Opportunity – My Daily Caller Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2015-12-03 15:44Please don’t miss my latest Daily Caller op-ed, “America’s Bipartisan Spectrum Opportunity.”
For Smartphone Users, Spectrum Is Speed -- My Daily Caller Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2015-07-24 16:35Please don't miss my latest Daily Caller op-ed -- "For Smartphone Users, Spectrum is Speed."
NetCompetition Hill Event: Need for Modernizing Communications Law (1-14-15)Submitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2015-01-06 15:34“The Need for: Modernizing Communications Law for American Consumers" Date: January 14, 2015 -- 12:00PM - 1:30PM Location: House Rayburn Building, Room 2322 Presenter and Moderator: Scott Cleland, NetCompetition Panelists: NetCompetition Statement on FCC Incentive Auction RulesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2014-05-15 17:47
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FCC Rules Take the “Auction” & “Incentives” out of the Supposed “Incentive Auction”
Auction will under-earn with FCC thwarting market forces by picking winners & losers The Least Efficient Part of Government – My Daily Caller Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2014-04-25 10:43The FCC Disincentive Auction – My Daily Caller Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2014-04-22 23:09Please don’t miss my new Daily Caller op-ed: “The FCC Disincentive Auction.”
It’s Part 13 of my Spectrum Waste Fraud & Abuse Series. *** Spectrum Waste Fraud & Abuse Series 600MHz Market Auction or FCC Three-Ring-Circus?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2014-04-15 18:27It appears the FCC may be betting again that it is smarter than everyone else in the marketplace. Time will tell. From the various reports of briefings about the FCC’s planned rules for the 600 MHz incentive auction, two things appear clear. First, the FCC doesn’t trust market forces. And second, the FCC doesn’t want the highest bidders to win the spectrum. Apparently, the FCC is trying to produce something for everyone in this now circus-like auction process – a proverbial, dazzling three-ring-circus of political compromises that catch and keep different people’s attention. At core, the FCC reportedly is adding a third ring to the already-complex, unprecedented, two-ring circus of the incentive auction. The first ring is the incentive reverse auction of broadcasters bidding for what they must earn in order to sell their spectrum, and the second ring is what wireless companies will then pay to own the broadcasters’ spectrum. The FCC wants to add a third ring to this growing auction spectacle. Reportedly the FCC is going to effectively create yet a third auction process that would commence when certain, not-yet-known auction revenue targets are met in the auction. Below those FCC-determined-revenue-targets anyone can bid. Above those targets, the largest potential bidders’ opportunities to bid further would be dramatically restricted. Pages |