Sausage Factory: a partial index to date
Here's a nearly complete list of Harold Feld's Tales of the Sausage Factory articles here on Wetmachine. Real Soon Now I'm going to get organized and use the blog software to keep track of this stuff...
View ArticleQuick Reaction to AT&T-BellSouth Merger
Not really a surprise. The government has made clear it will accept the vicious cycle of the previous merger you approved means I now have to merge.
View ArticleFCC Staff really starting to get the hang of this “enforcement” thing . . .
In another sign that the FCC has gotten serious in crackdown on cable abuse of market power and that this message has penetrated to the staff level consider the case of the NFL Network and Time Warner....
View ArticleFCC Meeting for November 3 . . . . It Just Keeps Getting Stranger
The FCC has issued the agenda for it's November 3 meeting. Gone is the proposed Notice of Inquiry on Network Neutrality . And a number of non-merger related items have popped up instead.
View ArticleDave Sez: AT&T Are [Bleep!]
My friend Dave recently moved from San Francisco to Sacramento. Being of the modern mobile generation that has cut the cord and lives by the cell phone, Dave wanted to get naked DSL. i.e., DSL (or...
View ArticleLive Blogging the FCC Vote — What If They Called A Vote and Nobody Came?
So here I am, waiting for the white spaces vote, votes on the merger items, and a few other things. The FCC adopted two orders on circulation already an item on closed captioning and an item on...
View Article2:30 P.M., Still No Meeting . . . .
O.K., I hope tonight's election results go better. Rumor is the hold up is on roaming conditions in the VZ/Alltel merger.
View ArticleCommission Meeting Happens! Begins With Gifts To Verizon and AT&T . . . .
O.K., we finally started at 3:50 p.m. Three items left, VZ/Alltel, New Clearwire, and White Spaces.
View ArticleQuick Note Re: Century/Embarq
For those who get notice of my blog but not Greg Rose's Econoklastic, and who are interested in the Century/Embarq merger (a significant merger for rural folks), I want to direct your attention to this...
View ArticleDoJ Says “No” To Ma Cell; Here’s What Happens Next (and Why It’s All Over But...
In what is undoubtedly the best Labor Day present the Department of Justice ever gave America, DOJ has filed to block the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger in court. One should not, however, expect AT&T to...
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