Capitol Blog Regulatory Insights February 2008 02/28 FCC Field Hearing On Monday, the FCC held a field hearing at Harvard Law School in Boston, Massachusetts, on the subject of Network Management Practices of broadband providers. The purpose of the hearing was to explore widely publicized allegations ...

... . Send me your comments 06/28 T-Mobile Wi-Fi Continuing with the theme of made up words I played around with yesterday (iPhone, NXTcomm, YouTube and FiOS), today's news is about a new Wi-Fi angle from T-Mobile, offering another indicator that the US cell phone industry is undergoing some consumer friendly ...

Capitol Blog Regulatory Insights March 2006 03/31 ...The Way to the Forum Yesterday morning at 10 AM, the long expected and very much debated video franchise reform bill made its official debut before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. As Subcommittee ...

... programming access to "themed video collections or sort(ing) the video programming based on star, show or genre" over Verizon's DSL or FIOS services so that "soap fans are in control." Well, of course you are, honey. My takeaway from this, other than taking the opportunity to screw ...

... a nice little, co-branded venture to enhance the online experience, making it more personalized, through Microsoft Windows Live for Verizon DSL and FiOS Internet users. It's nice to see when somebody "gets it." They get hammered for "getting it," but Verizon certainly likes to see ...

... thing - news reports from a week or so ago stated that Verizon is doing more of its own software development, in house, on its fiber-to-the-home FiOS service, rather than relying so heavily upon outside vendors. Now, one thing to consider - when weighing the impact of multiple software vendors operating ...

... Verizon on Yahoo! and immediately spotted a bunch of press releases announcing the arrival or imminent arrival of the company's fiber-to-the-home FiOS service to various communities, and I guess it was the number of releases that caught my eye. More and more lucky people will have the option of subscribing ...

... week and these have been poked and prodded, the tea leaves read, and otherwise gleaned for meaning. The company announced increases in wireless, FiOS and (satellite) video customers. I note that, however, in addition to reporting their earnings, Verizon also announced the acquisition of RC Cellular ...

Capitol Blog Regulatory Insights January 2008 01/28 Verizon: Wireless & FiOS, and Broadband Games Verizon reported continuing growth earlier today, anchored by strong wireless operations. It also reported reaching a milestone for FiOS - the company has reached the 1 million subscriber threshold ...

... GSM technology, which means they will probably run parallel networks for some period of time, inasmuch as the company is able to support DSL and FiOS technologies. Converged may be a fancy word for "all of the above" but it's an easy point to overlook, in the sense that carriers have to support ...