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Three US Senators have introduced a new bill aimed at getting the FUD out of today's 4G coverage mess. The "Next Generation Wireless Disclosure Act" will attempt to do something that providers have done their best to avoid - state plain facts about their coverage and it's speeds in their advertisements. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and
The British Government has confessed that it doesn't have sufficient money to meet the deadline of 2012 for a 2Mb/s broadband universal service. This commitment had been made by the previous government but was reconfirmed by the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, only last month in his speech at the Hospital Club in London. He further said, "Our goal is simple: within
In his pre-Budget report, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer has confirmed that there will be a 6 GBP tax on all households with fixed-line phones in order to setup a fund that will be used to ensure that even the uneconomical parts of the UK will get fast fibre connections. Note for readers - the incumbent UK Government is Labour,
Vivek Kundra. The CTO of the District of Columbia has been named the first US Chief Information Officer. Kundra has a proven track record and gets things implemented. He wants to implement a "stock-market approach to IT project management". He also looks for the "Adoption of consumer technologies in business". This includes having a team that tracks IT so they
One thing you have to hand to the Obama campaign they knew how to use Social Media effectively during the campaign. The Republicans can learn some lessons from this and so can some companies.
I was watching the races unfold tonight, as I have done in the past elections. The thing that I found just as interesting as the race itself was all the cool tech the news sources had to cover the election. The computing power in each news room was phenomenal. First, there was CNN. They had the big screen behind with
Mike Masnick makes a plea on techdirt for a mobile phone vendor to step forward and offer truth in their advertisements and product descriptions. This was prompted by a JD Power report on the declining satisfaction with mobile phone providers in the US. Is there anyone responsible for ensuring that consumers aren't ripped off in the US? Here in Australia