News

• Federal effort under way to deter smartphone thieves

  The Federal Communications Commission and the CTIA Wireless Association are joining hands in an attempt to take a bite out of smartphone crime.

• Broadband infrastructure: Time for real policy

  I'm late filing this column. Why? It's my AT&T U-Verse DSL connection again. Make that "yet again." I've been struggling with it all day.

• AT&T exec blames FCC for T-Mobile layoffs

  James Cicconi knows whom T-Mobile workers should blame for their company's recently announced layoffs: the FCC.

• AT&T exec Cicconi again bashes FCC

  You don't have to listen to AT&T executive James Cicconi speak very often to figure out that he's not a big fan of the current Federal Communications Commission.

• FCC asks Verizon for more data on plans to use acquired spectrum

  The Federal Communications Commission today asked Verizon to deliver a wide range of information on its spectrum holdings and its attempts to buy spectrum licenses from major cable companies.

• AT&T reluctant to support FCC call to adopt new PC security measures

  The head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants the ISP broadband providers to help battle botnets by being more active in helping their subscribers eradicate malware infections on their PCs. But AT&T's chief security officer said AT&T is reluctant to go beyond its current anti-malware efforts.

• Congress won't kill off new unlicensed spectrum after all

  Rest easy, America: Congress has decided against killing the next generation of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

• FCC axes LightSquared LTE dreams

  Anyone expecting LightSquared to bring LTE services to their neighborhood got a rude awakening today when the Federal Communications Commission said it would not permit the company to run an LTE network on satellite spectrum.

• Global broadband snapshot: Hong Kong throttles the rest of the world

  Anyone who thinks their Verizon fiber connection is fast ought to spend a week hanging out in East Asia.

• First 'Super Wi-Fi' network goes live in North Carolina

  Lucky residents of Wilmington, N.C., will be the first in the nation to have access to a "Super Wi-Fi" network.

• AT&T chief bashes FCC, pleads for more spectrum

  AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson is still unhappy that the Federal Communications Commission helped foul up his company's attempt to merge with T-Mobile.

• 2012 Outlook: The end of everything?

  Welcome to 2012, the year the world ends. Yes, in case you haven't been following the eschatologists out there (and most of them are definitely "out there"), 2012 will be "it" for humanity. The "last hurrah". Fini. Au revoir.

• The Internet has escaped the ax, at least in the US, at least for now

  A year ago I wrote that 2011 would be a year in which the Internet would "be under a multi-pronged attack that threatens to change it irrevocably in ways that may destroy much of the Internet's potential." Well, 2011 has come and mostly gone, and it turned out that my pessimism may have been misplaced but not invalid.

• The Eighth Annual Gibbs Golden Turkey Awards

  Ladies and Gentlemen, Meine Damen und Herren, Mesdames et Messieurs, Señoras y Señores, Κυρίες και Κύριοι (and for you classicists, Nullam et Viri), welcome to the Eighth Gibbs Golden Turkey Awards!

• FCC group crafting plans to open up mobile spectrum

  The Federal Communications Commission Spectrum Task Force laid out preliminary ideas on Friday for making frequencies now used for satellite services available for conventional mobile broadband.