Bridge Span: 15-5 Is An Economically Solid Mobile Future in the Pipeline?

Earlier this year Cisco released its annual Visual Network Index (VNI) Forecast Report: Mobile Data Traffic Update, 2014-2019. The report makes clear that North America, mostly the United States, has been a global leader in mobile broadband development. Case in pont, North America had 39.1 percent of all global 4G connections in 2014 with projections […]

September 24th, 2015 | Category: Communications policy, Technology, Wireless | Comments are closed

Bridge Span 14-15: Empower the People or Empower Bureaucrats? – Two Internet Votes

Pundits largely agree that those who cast ballots last week had more or less one idea in mind – Washington is broken and must be fixed. So imagine the surprise that online customers will receive when Senators Reid and Durbin lead the just voted out Senate to massively expand government power in their last few […]

November 17th, 2014 | Category: Cable, Communications policy, Tax, Technology, Wireless | Comments are closed

Bridge Span 14-14: Municipalities GON Wild!

Recently two towns, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the City of Wilson, North Carolina, have petitioned the federal government, via the FCC, complaining that state laws are constraining them from the municipal provision of broadband services, that is, from building a government owned network (GON). That is, these municipalities want to expend resources to build and operate […]

October 3rd, 2014 | Category: Cable, Communications policy, Technology, Wireless | Comments are closed
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