Real Confusion over Artificial Intelligence
Last week I took part in some fascinating discussions about the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning for spectrum management. The venue was the International Symposium on Advanced Radio...
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Prison Phone Jamming
Here are the comments I filed with the FCC on the prison phone jamming NPRM. GN Docket No. 13-111 Comments of Richard Bennett[1] I. Introduction and Summary This is a reply to comments by AT&T...
View ArticleThe Amazing Dynamic New Broadband Market
The broadband communications market is undergoing a period of massive realignment after suffering under cable industry dominance for two decades. Not long ago, serious broadband analysts complained...
View ArticleCorrecting the FCC’s 6 GHz Blunder
A new economic report by Raul Katz for WifiForward appears to inadvertently make a case for switching from Wi-Fi to Ethernet for better performance and a resulting boost to the US economy. The...
View ArticleSpectrum Policy is Too Politicized
Congress is struggling to find a way forward on spectrum licensing policy. The spectrum pipeline is bare, the FCC’s auction authority is on life support, and the national spectrum strategy NTIA and the...
View ArticleJayne Stancavage on the Global Spectrum Pipeline
[powerpress] Jayne Stancavage, the Global Executive Director of Product and Digital Infrastructure Policy at Intel Corporation fills us in on the global and local systems for spectrum allocation. She...
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Eric Schmidt’s Spectrum Agenda
Each change in presidential administrations reanimates old, rejected ideas in technology policy. While tech policy was once largely bipartisan, today it’s a bitter battlefield where basic facts are...
View ArticleThe National Technology Innovation Administration
Wednesday’s hearing in the House Communications and Technology subcommittee features NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson, the missing witness from the Aviation subcommittee’s hearing on the FAA two weeks...
View ArticleWill Rinehart on Broadband Part Two
This is the second and final part of our conversation with Will Rinehart on broadband infrastructure plans. (First part is here.) We discuss some of the biases, information gaps, and challenges that...
View ArticleShow Your Cards, FAA
The FAA is playing dirty. After failing to win support from the administration and Congress for its unwarranted ban on deployment of mid-band 5G anywhere in the country, the agency is leaning on the...
View ArticleWill Rinehart on Broadband Infrastructure and Inclusion
H.R.3684 – the House Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act – includes a $65B kicker for broadband networks in its trillion dollar appropriation package. This funding will extend broadband to unserved...
View ArticleCongress Digs Into Broadband
Today’s House Communications and Technology subcommittee hearing on twelve small broadband bills isn’t going to break any new ground. The bills cover a wide range of issues, but none is significant...
View ArticleIIJA: Good Start, Long Way to Go
Now that the massive Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) has passed the Senate the time has come to see what’s in it and what’s not. On the “not” side we note one major omission: mobile. When...
View ArticleConnecting the Unconnected
In Episode #58 of the podcast, Tom Evslin joins Richard for a discussion and demonstration of Starlink in Vermont. Tom signed up for the Starlink beta and he uses it for our Zoom session. Tom is a...
View ArticleComparing Wi-Fi 6E Gateways: Netgear vs. Asus
In the last post we shared some preliminary impressions of Wi-Fi 6E vs. Wi-Fi 6. 6E is identical to 6 except that 6E uses the 6GHz frequency band while 6 uses the 5GHz band. In the first test I used a...
View ArticleMulti-Gigabit SOHO Networks are Here
America’s networking industry isn’t sitting on its laurels. Xfinity just added a 200 Mbps speed boost to its high-end plans. For perspective, 200 Mbps is more than the average total download speed in...
View ArticleUniversal Broadband: A 21st Century View
At the risk of feeding an obsession, I’m going to take another stab at explaining what bothers me about President Biden’s universal broadband plan, this time in plain English. While the goal of...
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Biden’s Zombie Broadband Plan
President Biden’s “American Jobs Plan” aspires to do great things for the American worker. Investing over two trillion dollars on infrastructure and social programs over a ten year period is bound to...
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Attack of the 5G Truthers!
Thomas Johnson, the General Counsel at the FCC, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post earlier this month titled “5G conspiracy theories threaten the U.S. recovery.” It deals with the roadblocks to...
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Winning the 5G Prize
Because 5G is the next big thing in mobile technology, we’ve been obsessed with winning the race to 5G deployment for some time now. This post breaks down the status of various countries and regions to...
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