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FCC Chairmen battle on the wireless Frontline

Paul Kapustka, Tuesday, July 10, 2007 at 2:49 PM PT Comments (12)

If nothing else, FCC chairman Kevin Martin is a master of the media spin move. With Tuesday’s well-executed leak of his plan for the 700 MHz auction rules (to USA Today and the Wall Street Journal), Martin won headlines for championing “open” networks — even as he kicked the open-networking ideas of Frontline Wireless to [...]

Three Questions for John McCain

Paul Kapustka, Monday, July 9, 2007 at 11:19 PM PT Comments (4)

With all the other important issues confronting presidential candidates, it’s hard sometimes to figure out where political would-be leaders stand on geek-centric topics. But since John McCain is making a whistle stop in Silicon Valley next Monday, maybe we can take advantage of the situation and press the senior Senator from Arizona on matters close [...]

Frontline to Verizon: Let’s Rumble!

Paul Kapustka, Monday, July 2, 2007 at 1:00 AM PT Comments (8)

Lost in the iPhone news shuffle late last week was Frontline Wireless’s very public smackdown of telco giant Verizon, a who’s-your-daddy type challenge to debate dueling wireless networking plans in public, in front of the FCC commissioners. While Big Ivan is sure to duck the contest, the confidence shown by Frontline’s willingness to swing hard [...]

Catching up with Digium, Asterisk and Mark Spencer

Paul Kapustka, Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 8:00 AM PT Comments (0)

CHICAGO — What was open-source IP PBX leader Digium doing here at the NXTcomm show, traditionally the haunt of the biggest of big telecom players? Besides attracting a fair share of traffic to its small, out-of-the way booth, founder and CTO Mark Spencer spent some time with us, introducing new CEO Danny Windham and free-thinking [...]

Telecom Back from the Dead, but Check the Pulse

Paul Kapustka, Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 3:20 PM PT Comments (5)

CHICAGO — Sure, telecom is back from the dead. But for how long?
That was the unanswered question floating around the opening day of the telecom industry’s big trade show here Tuesday, as exuberance over record revenues and booming bandwidth demand was tempered by the harsh realities facing the legacy telephone industry as it heads into [...]

Google, Frontline face uphill battle in spectrum sweepstakes

Paul Kapustka, Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 11:45 PM PT Comments (1)

The battle over the valuable 700 MHz wireless spectrum takes an important step forward Wednesday, the day that public comments are due on the FCC’s latest proposal for rules governing the forthcoming airwaves auction. And while an interesting proposal from Google — for ongoing Adsense-like auctions of spectrum — attracted national headlines Tuesday, former FCC [...]

Qwest’s Quest: Making Believe DSL is Faster

Paul Kapustka, Monday, May 21, 2007 at 11:00 PM PT Comments (7)

After spending hard time covering last year’s net neutrality battles, it’s easy to get used to hearing telephone companies saying up is really down, and black is really white. That’s why we’re not going to even nibble at the pitch Qwest’s PR representatives sent our way Monday, an invitation to hear more about Qwest’s “broadband [...]

Benchmark’s Power Challenge Play

Paul Kapustka, Monday, May 14, 2007 at 11:26 AM PT Comments (1)

Is having someone else to play against is what draws you to online gaming? What if you don’t have an XBox? Then, you are part of the target audience online gaming startup Power Challenge that just raised an $8 million from Silicon Valley VC firm Benchmark Capital. 
Power Challenge, whose primary web-game Power Football allows [...]

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