by Mitchell Shapiro | May 4, 2015 | Blog
In a series of posts over the past two months I’ve discussed a range of initiatives aimed at using unlicensed spectrum to support the growing demand for wireless connectivity. To put these efforts in a forward-looking context, it’s helpful to get a sense of what...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Apr 29, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
In a series of posts over the past two months, I’ve looked at efforts by private companies and city governments to use unlicensed spectrum to improve choice, affordability, innovation and service quality in the communications sector. In this post I’ll add another type...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Apr 26, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
Over the past several days I’ve seen a number of post-mortems on the decision by Comcast to drop its bid to acquire Time Warner Cable after it became clear regulators weren’t going to approve the deal. Two items in particular caught my attention over the weekend: a...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Apr 23, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
Yesterday Google officially announced Project Fi, its much anticipated wireless service, which I’ve previously blogged and tweeted about during its pre-announcement rumor/leak phase. Now that more details, including pricing, are available directly from Google, an...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Apr 21, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
In my last post I described Boston’s recently-launched Wicked Free Wi-Fi as a new generation of municipal wireless networks likely to be more successful than the first generation of projects launched a decade earlier. Another member of this new generation is LinkNYC,...
