Rob PegoraroI’m flying to San Francisco Monday evening for Google I/O–which I last covered in person in 2019. That feels like a lot longer than five years ago, both for the obvious reason of the pandemic in between and because of how much my lineup of freelance clients has changed since then.
5/8/2024: CTIA’s 5G summit sees renewed pleas for FCC’s spectrum authority, Light Reading
After spending Monday afternoon at this wireless-industry gathering in D.C., I needed to get some context about the politics behind the weird lapse of the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to auction spectrum. Public Knowledge’s Harold Feld came through Tuesday afternoon, lending his insight in an info-dense call that yielded far more notes than I could put into this piece.
5/9/2024: Comcast Now Offers No-Data-Cap, No-Contract Broadband Nationwide, PCMag
Comcast writes the “Now” in “Now Internet” in all caps, and every time I see a company use the Caps Lock key as an attention-grabbing device I remember how my old Post colleague Bill Walsh wouldn’t stand for that. Fortunately, PCMag also declines to put brand names in all caps when they’ve never been abbreviations for anything.
#Comcast #CTIA #dataCap #FCC #FederalCommunicationsCommission #GoogleIO #midband5G #spectrum #Xfinity
