Ex-FCC Commissioner Reed Hundt on Telecoms Policy

Reed Hundt gave an interesting interview to Telephony Online, covering a range of topics including broadband deployment and wireless spectrum policy.

Video Traffic and Net Neutrality

The Associated Press has an article about the impact of increasing video traffic on the network neutrality debate.

Facts and Fiction About Cable Cuts

See this Wired post for a description of some of the issues around the Middle Eastern cable cuts. One surprising statistic is that cable cuts happen on average once every three days.

Over $4.6 Billion

The reserve has been met in the FCC auction...

Stalled at $4.3 Billion

After rising to $4.3 billion, no additional bids were made on the C block today. As this NYT article explains, tomorrow is an important day for the C block auction.

IEEE Spectrum 700 MHz Auction Primer

IEEE Spectrum Magazine has a primer on the 700 MHz spectrum auction.

Do You Believe the MPAA?

John Heidemann, a researcher at USC (and coauthor of my colleague Ashish Goel), is quoted in this Cnet article about whether we should believe the MPAA's claims about the extent to which illegal filesharing takes place in college campuses.