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A coalition that includes technology companies such as Google and Microsoft and think tanks such as the New America Foundation has been lobbying the FCC to open this unused spectrum up to third parties. The proposal initially faced fierce opposition ...

Requiring a specific carrier's permission is odd, because a wireless booster can be used to improve signals on just about any network, said Michael Calabrese, director of the Wireless Future Project at the New America Foundation. Calabrese helped ...

Earlier this week we covered a new white paper from the New America Foundation arguing the recent proliferation of data caps instituted by broadband providers are designed to maximize revenue rather than minimize congestion. The issue caught the ...

Those are the questions posed by a new paper from the New America Foundation, which wants to shake up the lethargy that has descended over the data caps debate by pointing out just how odd the caps truly are. "Internet service and mobile providers ...

For one thing, just figuring out what each chunk of spectrum is used for is difficult, said Michael Calabrese, who contributed to the PCAST report and is director of the Wireless Future Project at the New America Foundation. "Congress needs to mandate ...

A new study from the New America Foundation suggests that the United States is lagging in the broadband speed race. The study compared high-speed Internet service in major cities around the world, and found that high-speed broadband service was ...

Titles on that relationship include the fairly recent The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov and The Internet of Elsewhere by Cyrus Farivar. The latest on the shelf is Consent of the Networked by Rebecca MacKinnon. MacKinnon was co-founder of the Global ...

These projects are being developed all over the world by some small, local organizations, as well as larger, more ambitious projects that are receiving funding from the likes of the New America Foundation. The organization is a key part of the US ...

We decided to get a second opinion from Wendy Seltzer. Seltzer is a former EFF attorney who created Chilling Effects, a clearinghouse for copyright takedown notices. She is currently a scholar at Yale law school. SOPA's critics have warned that the ...

... They've published the global results of the Glasnost test, an application deployed by MLab that allows broadband subscribers to detect traffic shaping on their account. ...

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