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Wireless Future Program event with Larry Page in CNET | 'Google's Larry Page Goes to Washington'

May 22, 2008

Google co-founder Larry Page was in Washington Thursday trying to strum up support to open unused broadcast TV spectrum to wireless devices. Page came to D.C. to meet with Congressional leaders and the Federal Communications Commission to talk about allowing device manufacturers to design products that use spectrum known as "white space." This spectrum, which is in the 700MHz band of frequency, sits between analog TV channels and is not being used for anything more than a buffer between broadcast TV channels.

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Wireless Future Program event with Larry Page on WSJ.com | 'Google Co-Founder Makes Pitch for Unused Airwaves Access'

May 22, 2008

[Google] Co-Founder Larry Page this week made an unprecedented appeal to policy makers for access to unused television airwaves.

Page made his first trip to Washington, D.C., Wednesday and Thursday to meet with members of Congress and the Federal Communications Commission.

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Wireless Future Program event with Larry Page in Washington Post | 'Google's Page Talks Wireless Policy'

May 22, 2008
...[T]he soft-spoken and baby-faced Page met with key lawmakers including House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.) and policy makers at the Federal Communications Commission to push an idea to use empty television broadcast spectrum, called white spaces, for high-speed wireless connections by anyone, anywhere in the U.S.
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Wireless Future Program event with Larry Page in Broadcasting & Cable | 'Google's Page Fights for White Spaces'

May 22, 2008
In an event hosted by New America Foundation, "... Page argued that opening up vacant TV spectrum after the February 2009 switch to digital TV will help to spread broadband as well as boost Google's bottom line, calling opening up the white spaces "the most important thing the FCC [Federal Communications Commission] can do this year to promote broadband deployment and tech-sector innovation..." LINK
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Wireless Future Program event with Larry Page| 'Google's Larry Page goes to Washington'

May 22, 2008

...Page spoke in the morning at an event hosted by theWashington think tank, the New America Foundation. He emphasized that opening up the white space spectrum for unlicensed use could have a huge impact on the U.S. economy and economies throughout the world, if other countries adopted similar spectral policy. He also said that it made little sense for the U.S. to allow this resource to go unused.

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Philadelphia Network Flop Points To Failure Of Corporate Franchise Model

  • By
  • Sascha Meinrath,
  • New America Foundation
May 16, 2008 |

Last year, New America Foundation released an in-depth report and analysis of the Wireless Philadelphia Project, “The Philadelphia Story: Learning from a Municipal Wireless Pioneer.” We concluded that the private franchise model was suboptimal and that Philadelphia’s solution was problematic in a number of ways. At the time, we received good press coverage and a helluvalot of blowback from certain constituencies (who continued to assert that everything was on track).

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The COMMONS Initiative

  • By
  • Sascha Meinrath,
  • New America Foundation
  • and kc claffy, principal investigator, Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis
May 15, 2008 |

Over the past several years, interest in municipal wireless and community networking has increased dramatically. Thus far, these initiatives have generally focused on networking local communities. The next evolution in networking involves peering these networks together. Research on broadband service provision is desperately needed to help forge new national telecommunications policies and inspire innovation in networking technologies.

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Can Technology Save Intellectual Property Without Crippling Our Culture?

  • By
  • Troy K. Schneider,
  • New America Foundation
May 1, 2008 |

The easy knock on Tarleton Gillespie's Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture is that it seems dated. In walking the reader through the many issues and arguments of digital copyright, Gillespie focuses on three seminal attempts at Digital Rights Management -- the Recording Industry Association of America's failed Secure Digital Music Initiative, moviemakers' somewhat more successful efforts to lock down DVDs, and the major television networks' push to require "broadcast flags" on digital television signals.

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Michael Calabrese in Electronic Business News | 'Spectrum ‘Spaces’ Hold Allure for Technology Companies'

April 29, 2008

...Google proposes setting aside three channels for their exclusive use plus incorporating beacons into the microphones that would send a clear, definitive signal warning all other devices to stay out of its spectrum.

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Sascha Meinrath in New York Times | 'Hopes for Wireless Cities Fade as Internet Providers Pull Out'

March 22, 2008

Hopes for Wireless Cities Fade as Internet Providers Pull Out (New York Times)

. . . “The entire for-profit model is the reason for the collapse in all these projects,” said Sascha Meinrath, technology analyst at the New America Foundation, a nonprofit research organization in Washington.

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