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News of the Week; April 24, 2019

COMMUNICATIONS Millimeter-wave 5G will never scale beyond dense urban areas, T-Mobile says The DOJ Isn’t Buying T-Mobile’s Nonsensical Merger Benefit Claims AT&T’s fake 5G icons aren’t going away despite settlement with Sprint AT&T says 5G will be priced like home Internet—pay more for faster speeds Exit of AT&T’s WarnerMedia could spell trouble for OpenAP AT&T […]

News of the Week; April 17, 2019

COMMUNICATIONS Wind, Sleet, and Dead Zones: My Quest to Map Chicago’s Spotty 5G What will journalism do with 5G’s speed and capacity? Here are some ideas, from ‘The New York Times’ and elsewhere T-Mobile/Sprint merger is in danger of being rejected by DOJ T-Mobile’s ‘Revolutionary’ New TV Service Looks Like The Same Old Crap  FCC […]

See you later Allard Comm. Law 2019

There is an inherent contradiction in saying goodbye to a communications law class in 2019. There are precious few certainties given the multi-dimensional nature of the subject, but one feature we can identify with reasonable certainty is that there are few if any permanent goodbyes. Communications technologies make information frighteningly persistent. Even the right to […]