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		<title>FCC reiterates prohibition on phone call interference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Communications Commission today released a Declaratory Ruling reminding carriers of the long standing prohibition on actions that block, choke, reduce, or otherwise restrict telephone traffic.  Should these practices lead to call termination or other call quality issues, the FCC may find the practices in violation of sections 201 and 202 of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawandpoliticsofbroadband.com/2012/02/fcc-reiterates-prohibition-on-phone-call-interference/</link>
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		<title>IIA makes the case the FCC can’t have it both ways</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Mehlman points out in recent blog post that the FCC cannot have it both ways.  It cannot label an auction process as competitive and then support an egregious barrier to entry by allowing some companies to bid on spectrum and leaving others on the sideline. 
A participant in a free market enters with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawandpoliticsofbroadband.com/2012/02/iia-makes-the-case-the-fcc-can%e2%80%99t-have-it-both-ways/</link>
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		<title>FCC regulatory overreach does nothing for consumer welfare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good to see more advocates for a less restrictive market stepping up and getting more aggressive with vocalizing their concerns.  That’s what the Center for Individual Freedom did in a blog post last week addressing the apparent overreach that the Federal Communications Commission has been executing for almost three years.  
Sometimes I think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawandpoliticsofbroadband.com/2012/01/fcc-regulatory-overreach-does-nothing-for-consumer-welfare/</link>
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		<title>Google and Sprint sounds like a logical play</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple posts ago I shared the idea of Apple buying T-Mobile.  What would really be an act of charity would be Google buying Sprint.  Talk about putting a company out of its misery.  Shares of Sprint have been falling for six months and this company needs a parachute.  It waged [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawandpoliticsofbroadband.com/2012/01/google-and-sprint-sounds-like-a-logical-play/</link>
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		<title>Spectrum allocation policy should be a lot more straight forward.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blair Levin stated during the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council’s Broadband and Social Justice in support of incentive auctions as described in S.28, the Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act.  The Act allows broadcast stations that voluntarily give up some of their spectrum to collect part of the bid proceeds, while the remainders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile Future urges FCC to keep spectrum on top of 2012 agenda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a letter dated 25 January 2012, Mobile Future urged the Federal Communications Commission to keep spectrum availability at the top of its priority list in 2012.  Mobile Future attached a report documenting the impact on growth resulting from the evolution and innovation in wireless.
According to Mobile Future, more than 1.5 million jobs were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawandpoliticsofbroadband.com/2012/01/mobile-future-urges-fcc-to-keep-spectrum-on-top-of-2012-agenda/</link>
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		<title>Is Sprint squatting on spectrum?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spectrum is a nonrivalrous, excludable good.  Like any other wireless carrier, Sprint’s cell towers, cell phones, heck even their customers generate that electromagnetic field we call spectrum.  Just like Sprint bids for access to spectrum from the Federal Communications Commission, we “bid”, usually on a monthly basis, for access to Sprint’s cell towers.
Our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawandpoliticsofbroadband.com/2012/01/is-sprint-squatting-on-spectrum/</link>
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		<title>Sprint acting more like a regional carrier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sprint acting more like a regional carrier
Sprint and AT&#038;T are at it again.  AT&#038;T is calling out Sprint on the Kansas City-based carrier’s use of roaming agreements versus building out a network to provide consumers with real facility-based services.  Sprint alleges this is good for consumers because the practice allows the company to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawandpoliticsofbroadband.com/2012/01/sprint-acting-more-like-a-regional-carrier/</link>
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		<title>SB 313 may only impact cities at this time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s too early to tell what the full impact may be cities and counties from Georgia&#8217;s SB 313, the Broadband Investment Equity Act.  Staff at the Association of County Commissioners of Georgia relayed their initial assessment that the bill appears to impact just one county, but a more complete review may be needed.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawandpoliticsofbroadband.com/2012/01/sb-313-may-only-impact-cities-at-this-time/</link>
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		<title>Norquist raps FCC on knuckles for pulling a John Kerry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grover Norquist co-authored a piece criticizing the FCC’s foot-dragging on the issue of spectrum access.  As a case study, Mr. Norquist refers to the challenges LightSquared is facing from other agencies while the FCC apparently is looking the other way.  According to Mr. Norquist, the FCC is pulling a John Kerry double take: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawandpoliticsofbroadband.com/2012/01/norquist-raps-fcc-on-knuckles-for-pulling-a-john-kerry/</link>
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