Jon Festinger
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 […]
News of the Week; April 10, 2019
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY Supporting a More Competitive Canadian Wireless Market: Speak Out on Navdeep Bains’ Proposed CRTC Policy Direction (Michael Geist) FCC Proposes Protections for 5G Infrastructure Hub and Relay Antennas to Spur Deployment In Verizon 5G launch city, reviewers have trouble even finding a signal Verizon’s ‘World First’ 5G Launch Was A […]
(Sincere or not…) Answer of the Week (Class 11): “I believe we need a more active role for governments and regulators” – Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook
By the time end of term rolled around, everyone in our course surely was feeling a bit too familiar with our oft-repeated theme/query “To regulate or not to regulate?”. Lucky for us then that Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook has taken it upon himself to answer the question, and perhaps in an unexpected way at that. […]
News of the Week; April 3, 2019
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY A Netflix Crisis?: Foreign Funding Now By Far the Largest Source of Financing for Canadian Fictional English Language TV Production (Michael Geist) Company Ordered to Pay Woman $459K After Spamming Her With More Than 300 Robocalls FCC “fined” robocallers $208 million since 2015 but collected only $6,790 FTC Shuts Down […]
News of the Week; March 27, 2019
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY Cable Industry Embarrassed By The Word ‘Cable,’ Stops Using It FCC has to pay journalist $43,000 after hiding net neutrality records FCC (Read: Taxpayers) Forced To Pay Journalist’s Legal Bills After Tap Dancing Around FOIA Requests T-Mobile’s $50 home Internet service has no data cap, but plenty of limits AT&T’s […]
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