Word: verizons
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Last Monday, members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) came to Boston to hold hearings on an important subject: whether broadband providers like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast should be allowed to manage Internet traffic for efficiency’s sake. It’s a useful question, and one that abuts the controversial debate on network neutrality: the idea that broadband networks should blindly treat each bit of information on the Internet equally...
Already Google has said it will participate along with nearly 200 other registered bidders, including industry giants like Verizon and AT&T as well as surprise contenders like Chevron and Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, through his Vulcan Spectrum LLC. A more robust playing field would mean heightened competition in the consolidated telecom industry, benefiting consumers with more inventive technologies and potentially lower prices...
...spectrum that will share airwaves with public-safety responders. "I don't expect that the auction will result in a major new market entrant," says Michael Calabrese, director of the wireless future program at the New America Foundation, a Washington, D.C. think tank. "I think Verizon will end up bidding more because it is worth more to them to keep out a new entrant...
...mean customers could use any wireless device, handset or application on the network, without being restricted by their carrier. It's a dismantling of the traditional "walled garden" telecom approach in the hopes that the U.S. catches up to Europe and Asia with better services and innovations. At first Verizon and AT&T were vehemently opposed, threatening lawsuits, but they have since reversed their position, with Verizon announcing that they would voluntarily open their entire network in 2008. Still, analysts caution, it is unclear whether Verizon's move will completely level the playing field because of price variations for gadgets...
...Manchester's Verizon Center has, undoubtedly, seen many iterations of the wave. I suspect, though, that the occasion of a visit from Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey marked the first time the arena hosted a wave performed by an audience divided equally between middle-aged ladies in Christmas sweaters, hipsters in cords and ringer-tees and men of indeterminate ages bundled into parkas. Almost all of the 8,500 people packing the Center were white - and they were there to see two black people. Neither of whom would sing or throw a ball...