Journalism |
News and Opinion on the FCC's Revised Auction Rules
"It's Silicon Valley vs. Telcos in Battle for Wireless Spectrum," May 16, 2007, Wired, by Frank Rose.
"The New Wireless Playing Field: Cell-Phone Makers and Outsiders Like Google Want to Break Free from Carriers' Rigid Controls and Gain Direct Access to Subscribers," July 25, 2007, BusinessWeek, by Olga Kharif.
"The FCC's Wireless Redial: Are the Commission's New Rules for an Auction of a Huge Swath of Airwaves Enough to Jump-Start U.S. Wireless Innovation? August 1, 2007, BusinessWeek, by Olga Kharif.
"Beachfront Wireless: Airwave Auction Rules Let You Bring Your Own Beach Ball, but the Sand Still Belongs to the Same Old Cellular Service Providers," August 3, 2007, BusinessWeek, by Glenn Fleishman.
"A Half-Win for Cellphone Users," August 6, 2007, New York Times.
"Tearing Down the Wireless Fortress: Google's Breakthrough at the FCC is Just the Latest Threat to the Telcos' Mobile Dominance," August 13, 2007, BusinessWeek, by Olga Kharif.
"FCC Auction May Benefit Single Company," August 14, 2007, Wall Street Journal, by Corey Boles.
"Handcuffs Chafe Wireless Users," August 22, 2007, USA Today, by Leslie Cauley.
"Economic View: In Search of Wireless Wiggle Room," October 21, 2007, New York Times, by Judith Chevalier.
"Telecommunications: Free My Phone," October 22, 2007, Wall Street Journal, by Walter S. Mossberg.
News and Opinion on the Wireless Market in the U.S.
"Spectrum Stash," January 01, 2007, WirelessWeek, by Mark Rockwell.
"Mobile Marketing: What Will Make Mobile Advertising Tick?" Wireless World, March 2007, by Chetan Sharma and Victor Melfi.
"AT&T Changes Course on Auction: Now It Supports 'Open Access' Plan for Cellular Airwaves," July 20, 2007, Washington Post, by Kim Hart.
"Google Likely to Bring Big Bucks to FCC Auction," August 22, 2007, TechNewsWorld, by Katherine Noyes.
"Apple Eyes the Wireless Auction: Steve Jobs & Co. Consider Joining the FCC's Auction of Wireless Spectrum, and a Win Would Give Apple Many Intriguing Options-for the iPhone And More," September 10, 2007, BusinessWeek, by Peter Burrows.
"Verizon Wireless Sues FCC Over Final Spectrum Auction Rules," September 13, 2007, AP.
"The Power of Six: Google's Plan for World Domination. Also Why the iPod Classic Sucks," September 14, 2007, Robert X. Cringely, PBS.
"From iPhone to gPhone?; Mobile Phones," September 15, 2007, The Economist.
"AT&T, Frontline ask FCC to Reconsider 700MHz Auction Rules," arstechnica.com, September 25, 2007, by Eric Bangeman.
"Will a Google Phone Change the Game? Mobile Biggies Are Quaking at the Idea of Competition from a Free, Ad-based Service," October 8, 2007, BusinessWeek.
"For Google, Advertising and Phones Go Together," October 8, 2007, New York Times, by Miguel Helft.
"AT&T's Spectrum Buy Rearranges Pieces On The 700-MHz Board," October 9, 2007, InformationWeek, By Richard Martin.
News and Opinion on the Wireless Markets in Europe and Japan
"The Docomo Mojo: Wireless Data Services Technologies, Business Models and Global Markets," Japan.Inc., January 2004, by Chetan Sharma and Yasuhisa Nakamura.
"DoCoMo Voice Quality: "Moshi Moshi ... Can you hear me?" August 24, 2004, Wireless Watch Newsletter, Japan.Inc, Issue 136, by Arjen van Blokand.
"Softbank-Vodafone Deal Rings True: The $15.5 billion purchase of the British outfit's Japanese unit gives Softbank entree into the cellular world and puts pressure on rivals KDDI and DoCoMo," March 17, 2006, BusinessWeek, by Ian Rowley and Kenji Hall.
"Japan: Some Cell Carriers May Have Wrong Number: Newly able to switch cell phone services without losing their phone numbers, consumers may dial away from vulnerable carriers like Vodafone," September 6, 2006, BusinessWeek, by Ian Rowley.
"Why did i-MODE Fail outside of Japan? Was It Really the Walled-Garden Approach?" August 10, 2007, Wireless Watch Newsletter, Japan.inc, Issue 165.
"A Battle for Europe's Airwaves: with European Countries Planning to Sell off Broadcast and Phone Spectrum, Everybody Wants in on the Action," June 18, 2007, Fortune, by Mark Halper.
"Ofcom Plans Mobile Phone Spectrum Auction," September 20, 2007, Guardian Unlimited, by Richard Wray. [Ofcom is the regulatory agency for telecom in Great Britain.]