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[ NNSquad ] Re: American Broadband Market Works, Economists Say
----- Forwarded message from David Farber <dave@farber.net> ----- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:43:37 -0400 From: David Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: [IP] Re: American Broadband Market Works, Economists Say Reply-To: dave@farber.net To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com> Begin forwarded message: From: Stagg Newman <lsnewmanjr@yahoo.com> Date: June 18, 2009 8:29:42 AM EDT To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>, dave@farber.net Subject: Re: [IP] Re: American Broadband Market Works, Economists Say Frontline's business model of building a wholesalle all IP open 4G network for commercial users and the public safety community proposed new regulations over and above the normal regulations for cellular spectrum. These regulations would carry obligations and hence expenses as well as rights (e.g. wholesale and open) different from a normal cellular operator. Frontline proposed these obligations only apply to the so-call 700 MHz D Block. The FCC chose to put only a subset of what Frontline proposed into the regulations. The FCC then set a minimum bid requirement of $1.3 B for the nationwide D Block licenses. The net effect was the subset of regulations the FCC did propose meant the business plan was considerably less attractive than had the FCC gone with the entire Fronline recommendation. So Frontline did not enter the auction afterall nor did any other company meet the requirement for the minimum bid. So the D block spectrum is still not allocated and will be the subject of future rulemaking. One could say the FCC tried to "split the baby" and ended up w/ .... --- On Wed, 6/17/09, David Farber <dave@farber.net> wrote: From: David Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: [IP] Re: American Broadband Market Works, Economists Say To: "ip" <ip@v2.listbox.com> Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 4:12 PM Begin forwarded message: From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed@reed.com> Date: June 17, 2009 12:00:48 PM EDT To: Stagg Newman <lsnewmanjr@yahoo.com> Cc: dave@farber.net Subject: Re: [IP] Re: American Broadband Market Works, Economists Say Was Frontline's failure due to regulatory barriers? On 06/17/2009 10:46 AM, Stagg Newman wrote: > > PFF certainly has the right of free speech. Just need to know who is > paying > for the speech. > > It is amazing the number of different "mouthpieces" that the large > corporation have in DC. > > Having spent a year and invested considerable personal time, energy, > and money as CTO of Frontline Wireless, a startup that would have > provided a high performance wireless wholesale IP infrastructure to > enable edge players to innovate and failed, I got some very harsh > lessons at just how effective the large incumbents are in using all of > these mouthpieces to affect the polical and regulatory process. > > Frontline did not succeed even with two former FCC chair (one demoncrat > and one republican), a former republican head of NTIA, former CEO at > both ATT Wireless and Netscape, and two of the premier Silicon Valley > VCs among it's key inverstors. > > I hope the Obama adminstration will be more supportive of policy and > regulation that will enable innovation and innovators. We shall see. > > > > > > --- On Wed, 6/17/09, David P. Reed <dpreed@reed.com> wrote: > > From: David P. Reed <dpreed@reed.com> > Subject: Re: [IP] Re: American Broadband Market Works, Economists Say > To: dave@farber.net, "Stagg Newman" <lsnewmanjr@yahoo.com> > Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 10:03 AM > > Doesn't the PFF have the corporate right of free speech, Stagg? I'm > sure their staffers would never favor anyone's viewpoint merely because > of money. In fact, isn't the term "freedom" in their name focused on > freedom of companies to do and to say whatever they please? > > We wouldn't want the socialists to decide that people can communicate > freely over "their" networks, merely because they pay for Internet > access. Archives ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message -----