WCA has created a web site that is the “go-to resource for comments by – and comparisons between – top U.S. policymakers regarding the pace and benefits of broadband deployments.”
They give nice broadband profiles for everyone and you can comment. The profiles include what they say and (more importantly) what they’d done in terms of broadband in the past.
They track the campaigns and post any news that is broaband-related and they track individual issues including:
Rural Broadband Deployment
Interoperability
Net Neutrality
Applications in Education
Applications in Military
On an only semi-related note. The WCA Annual Conference is happening now. The line up looks great – if only it were happening in Minnesota. I’ll be sure to check back with them next week to see if they will be posting notes or presentations online.
wca is a good source , our membership with them is something we keep up .I guess you could call them the political wing of this technology
I wish I were able to attend their conference – I hope they post a lot of it online.
i will be emailed lots on it i can forward it to you after i recieve it.Also next week in chicago there is a meeting on wireless also.
3.65 GHz Opens US Telecoms Markets
Given the wonders of 3.65 GHz spectrum and IP/IMS, there is nothing to impede foreign operators from setting up shop in US telecom markets. Warning to domestic service providers-get on the stick!
In my latest book “The Next Telecom Boom”, I postulate that Martians invade Earth in the form of a telecom service provider using WiMAX as a last mile access technology with an IMS core for services. The Martians offer a quadruple play of services for $10/month, which kills off Earthling service providers and their bankers.
Lets substitute “non-US origin” for Martian and US for Earth and see how a Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile is here already), TelMex (memo to Sr. Slim-I cheerfully shop your Sears store), or Telefonica could “invade” the US telecom markets using 3.65 WiMAX (blanket the US for a few billion $) serviced by an IMS core (no more than another billion $). The 3.65 GHz doesn’t require years of fund raising and gaming on licensed spectrum and VoIP/IPTV doesn’t require any painful FCC permissions (worst case: Bell Canada runs VoIP off a Toronto-based switch; TelMex from Juarez). Skype over WiMAX any one? Buying/setting up a US shell company can solve a lot of problems fast, too.
See my blog from October ’06 regarding “Lawyers, Guns and Money” and we see that opportunities in telecom enabled by WiMAX and IMS are not limited to markets in the developing world. They could be right here in River City, too.
Frank Ohrtman
WMX Systems
I’ll have to look up the book. I do know that a lot of the European phone companies were leaps and bounds ahead of US companies on VoIP a couple of years ago. I really only know the Irish and UK markets firsthand but I always wondered if the fact that that each country had a ostensible (if not actual) monopoly (British Telecom & Telecom Eireann) made it easier to create a plan to move forward with these technologies. Also it would be interesting to really look into the difference in regulation in these areas. I will definitely do that next year.
yes ur right on the voip services in europe .our biggest problem is we allowed monopolies and on this i know im going to get in trouble but oh well wont be first time i have been outspoken on things and im sure wont be the last.I will get u a regulatory book which is online .And also something for ur personal email
http://www.wimaxstrategies2007.com
this one is in chicago the 21st
Another conference I won’t attend – but I do hope to get notes and if/when I do I’ll post them here.
My favorite thing about blogs is that someone will attend this conference , someone will blog about it, I will read it and then I can share what I learn here. Blogging is often the next best thing to being there.
sometimes better as u can see all and when there u have to pick and choose.i have a conference in vegas the end of july first of august also which i will send you info on
I will look forward to that – and I think you deserve a prize for going Vegas in te height of summer.
i deserve a prize for vegas anytime as it isnt my fav place but some people seem to think its a good place for conventions.This is a defcon convention where all the top computer security people gather.