High Tech Forum Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Of all the telecom lawyers I've met, nobody understands spectrum better than Anna Gomez. This is a must-see podcast for spectrum geeks.
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While today's applications are human-centric, the next generation of wireless systems are likely to transform entire economic sectors.
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Transferring spectrum from old to new users have proven to be much speedier and easier than imagined by PCAST and similar plans of 10 - 15 years ago. Getting governments and government agencies to cooperate is the harder problem.
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Evaluation of 20th century radio use cases against 21st century networking needs has to become an ongoing process until all of the spectrum allocations made by fiat are converted to more general uses.
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The economics of competition work very differently in markets with high fixed costs. These markets work better with a consumer welfare focus than with the competition focus.
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If you're interested in broadband, competition, digital inclusion, and how public policy moves from idea to appropriation this is for you.
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When we begin with the requirements we quickly find that there are many ways to satisfy them. At this point it's more prudent to continue to rely on innovation to meet needs rather than declare one and only one technology the permanent victor.
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Everything policy makers need to know about digital inclusion in one easy podcast.
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Episode 56 of the podcast is a conversation with Dr. Lisa J. Porter on zero-trust architectures. Porter started the current conversation on calibrating expectations about trust and security in the...
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Municipal broadband overbuilders such as Chattanooga Tennessee, Longmont Colorado, and Fort Collins Colorado are in the curious position of acting as both marketplace regulators and market participants.
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A discussion with Dominique Lazanski and Stacie Hoffman on China’s invasion of Internet standards organizations
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Coalition members are engaged in some exciting demonstrations and some real network builds, especially Rakuten and Reliance Jio. Rakuten is building a new nationwide 4G/5G network in Japan, and Reliance Jio, creator of the world's largest mobile network, is blanketing India with 5G.
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Given that safety is not a real problem, or at the very least not something city councils need to worry about, a coherent focus on aesthetics and speedy deployment best serves the public interest.
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So we have a number of issues that may or may not be lawful but are pretty clearly unfair and anti-competitive. What's Congress going to do about platform power and competition? This question remains to be answered, but the podcast suggests a good way for it to start.
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Long time fans of the High Tech Forum will know Dave Belson as the author of the Akamai State of the Internet reports and previous podcast guest. This research is...
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Shane and Richard survey current Internet policy issues
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In this podcast, DNS expert Stacie Hoffman explains issues with new Internet protocol known as DNS over HTTPS (DoH.) This dubious piece of work creates a number of operational vulnerabilities...
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In this podcast, Furchgott-Roth discusses the book, his roles in Congress and at the FCC, the current controversy over 5G mmWave interference, and the role of the World Radio Conference in setting standards for spectrum use around the world.
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While first-wave 5G small cells will rely on specialized switches, the second wave will use generic hardware and open source software. When the second wave hits the streets, the fears about the Chinese government taking over an import part of the telecom sector will become moot.
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The 5G buildout is hampered on some areas by extortionate rents on small cell sites. These fees are driven the need of some municipalities - such as San Jose, California - to raise money for pension costs. While we're sympathetic to retirees, there are ways to meet these needs without wrecking the technology sector.
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Costs of deployment for new networking technologies tend to decline over time as we learn how to avoid unnecessary redundancies. Deployment costs of fiber-to-the-home networks declined to about 20% of initial levels over the first three years of deployment.
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In this edition of the podcast, Shane and Richard talk about setting up a Wi-Fi network for optimal security and performance, recent developments in security, and what's going on in Europe with copyright enforcement and privacy.
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FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly joined us for a High Tech Forum podcast this week to bring us up-to-date on FCC issues such as 5G, broadband deployment, mid-band spectrum, and the...
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This edition of the podcast features Commissioner Brendan Carr, the FCC’s 5G champion. Carr was promoted from Chief Counsel to Commissioner in August. Since his swearing-in he’s taken up the...
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It's obvious that some of this story is hokey, but you're not sure which part. You've come to the right place because Will Rinehart lays it all out in this podcast.
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In this edition of the High Tech Forum podcast, Richard and Shane discuss the report from Axios (or was it InfoWars?) about a White House intern’s plan for government takeover...
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In this edition of the High Tech Forum podcast, Shane Tews interviews me about my recent research paper, “You Get What You Measure“. This is the paper that looks into...
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Internet regulation is like the Game of Thrones, a battle between parochial interests that ignores the threat of an innovation-less winter.
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In this edition of the HTF podcast, we talk with Entropy Economics founder Bret Swanson about his recent paper (with Michael Mandel), The Coming Productivity Boom. Swanson sees high productivity...
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What are we losing by pretending that mobile broadband is a noncompetitive market that needs to be tightly managed by a Washington-based regulator? We can't know that in the US because we only have the market we have. But data from other countries suggests that we're not seeing the explosion in mobile apps development that we should expect.
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Peter Rysavy identifies the friction points between 5G networks and Title II regulation.
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The FCC was designed as an independent agency because the public is always biased in favor of the status quo. As Henry Ford may have said about his Model T, the public just wanted faster horses because they were scared of cars.
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We should absolutely be focusing on data security as well as privacy expectations. All companies should take steps to protect the security of collected data holistically in a comprehensive way.
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In this podcast, we talk with Professor Charles Jackson about the paper he presented at the TPRC conference in October, Defining Harmful Interference Efficiently. The paper proposes a way of...
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In this podcast, Shane Tews and Richard discuss key issues likely to grab the FCC's attention this year, the impact of Chairman Pai, and whether the FCC needs to be reorganized. Beyond the issues themselves, Chairman Pai is likely to invest a lot of effort in changing the tone at the agency. Rather than forcing questionable issues through the agenda, expect him to work for consensus solutions that will outlast his tenure.
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Dave Farber, the Internet's grandfather, makes some insightful and surprising predictions for the Internet in 2017. Augmented reality will penetrate social and business life, and work on a more secure Internet will begin in earnest.
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Between government underreach with cybersecurity law and overreach in reacting to attacks and fake news, we live in troublesome times.
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In this edition of the High Tech Forum Podcast, Richard Bennett is joined by ICANN insider Shane Tews (@ShaneTews) for the lowdown on current issues in international Internet governance.
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In this edition of the High Tech Forum Podcast, Richard Bennett is joined by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Ajit Pai (@AjitPaiFCC) to discuss a range of issues, including the...
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Om Malik, the long time tech journalist, founder of Gigaom and current True Ventures partner, joins Richard Bennett in the latest edition of the High Tech Forum Podcast. As the...
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The Internet was born 40 years ago in a demonstration connecting a wireless node in California with all the computers on ARPANET. Listen to the godfather.
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Richard Bennett talks with The Internet of Things Podcast Host, Stacey Higginbotham In this High Tech Forum podcast edition, Stacey Higginbotham (@gigastacey) joins Richard Bennett (@iPolicy) to talk about what...
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High Tech Forum founder Richard Bennett talks with Shane Tews of the American Enterprise Institute and Vrge Strategies about the FCC’s set-top box Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and the habits...
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In the latest High Tech Forum podcast, Richard Bennett talks with Mike Thelander, CEO and founder of Signals Research Group (SRG), about Thelander’s research and recent developments in wireless technology....
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Ever wonder if Wi-Fi will always be around? Or what the future of mobile will hold? High Tech Forum founder Richard Bennett resumes his discussion with Rysavy Research founder and...
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In this High Tech Forum podcast edition, High Tech Forum founder Richard Bennett talks with Rysavy Research founder Peter Rysavy about 5G, spectrum, and how consumers will benefit from wireless...
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These days, it’s hard to think of any major consumer product that doesn’t offer wireless Internet connectivity. Thermostats, appliances, cars, baby monitors – all of these and more depend on...
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The DC Circuit Court’s oral arguments largely ignored fundamental inconsistencies with the FCC’s regulations—problems that engineers recognize as vital to operation of the Internet. In the latest High Tech Forum...
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High Tech Forum Founder Richard Bennett recently spoke with David Belson, the editor of Akamai’s“State of the Internet” reports, about Akamai’s most recent findings. SOTI is the most definitive data set and analysis...
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Cybersecurity is on the front burner of Internet concerns for both users and policy makers thanks to relentless, high profile attacks. We’ve all heard about data breaches at Sony, OPM,...
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The Internet is a wonderful and complex system, but it’s often poorly understood by regulators. The wrong regulations can prevent it from working reliably and from serving society’s communication needs....
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In the latest High Tech Forum podcast, Richard Bennett sat down with Shane Tews, chief policy officer at 463 Communications, a firm that advises high-tech organizations on Internet policy. Tews...
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CTIA Chief Technology Office Tom Sawanobori sat down with High Tech Forum founder Richard Bennett to discuss the state-of-play in the wireless industry. Click play to learn more about: The...
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In Part 2 of our interview with Neil Davies, the network expert discusses the results of a study commissioned by the British regulator Ofcom, and what lessons can be drawn...
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We may have reached “Peak Internet,” Dr. Neil Davies tells HTF Founder Richard Bennett in a new interview. “We haven’t actually got a sustainable system at the moment, and the...
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Columbia University Professor Henning Schulzrinne served as Chief Technologist at the Federal Communications Commission from 2011 to 2014. During his career, he has helped develop the key protocols that enable...
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High Tech Forum refrains from taking policy positions, but the FCC’s Open Internet Order was one issue on which Founder Richard Bennett simply couldn’t stay silent. Bennett filed an amicus brief questioning...
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You can take your smartphone anywhere in the world, pop in a new SIM card, and it will just work. That’s not just some happy accident; that’s the result of...
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High Tech Forum Founder Richard Bennett recently sat down with Shane Tews, chief policy officer at 463 Communications, a firm that advises high-tech organizations on Internet policy. Tews also works...
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Stanford Professor John Cioffi is world-renowned for his contributions to networking: He invented DSL, VDSL and Vectored DSL, and his work has led to more than 400 publications and more than...
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HTF Editor Richard Bennett spoke with Cisco Fellow Fred Baker about his thoughts on networking technology, security, and the intersection between law enforcement requests and what is actually doable within...
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Dave Farber, known to many as the Grandfather of the Internet, talks about his role in the development of the world’s first computer networks. Farber also speculates on what’s next,...
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Dave Farber, known to many as the Grandfather of the Internet, talks about his role in the development of the world’s first computer networks. Farber also speculates on what’s next,...
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