I had some interesting back-and-forth discussions by e-mail this week about people donating money to charity using text messages. The inquiries involved various allegations about cellular carriers and what they were doing with donations given via text. Here are the questions we got, and the answers we were given by friends in the cellular industry.

Late last week, the National Telecommunications & Information Association and the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service announced the rules for doling out the second round of broadband stimulus funding – totaling $4.8 billion. The Notices of Funds Availability (NoFA) contain significantly different rules from the first round funding restrictions. As many trade publications have [...]

The gaming community should be distressed at the ECA selling them out. If ECA is going to continue to argue for policies that harm gamers, perhaps they should change their name to “Gamers for Lag” and be upfront about the impact of their position.

A familiar line of argument is developing on the left. They suggest that “fill in the blank is the way it always was, so we’re really not suggesting anything new.” This is the argument they make about net neutrality, while completely ignoring that the largest provider of broadband – the cable industry – was never [...]

One of the best parts of my job is I get to skim through countless blog posts about all sorts of telecom topics and see what people are thinking. But occasionally I stumble upon a post so truly hysterical that I smile for a week. This is one of those days.  Apparently, the Future of [...]

Content creators want to protect the model that gives them the most certainty. To argue that they would simply make their content available through a model that didn’t do that is simply laughable. Trying to force them to do so by foolishly invoking the heavy hand of government in business negotiations.