David Brodwin is a cofounder and board member of American Sustainable Business Council. Follow him on Twitter at @davidbrodwin. This week marks the 44th anniversary of the Federal Communications ...

Analyzing the wave of innovation that resulted from an earlier battle to open telecom networks is a good way to judge how much lost innovation the end of Net Neutrality (1) can cause. I’m referring to ...

When I was growing up, the closest thing we had to a wireless phone was a cheap set of walkie-talkies that had a range of about 100 feet and the sound quality of the original telephone — at best. It’s ...

"I've been waiting 40 years, and thought nobody would ever ask me to come celebrate the Carterfone decision," declared former Federal Communications Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, speaking at a ...

Skype petitioned the Federal Communications Commission earlier this week to force U.S. mobile operators to loosen controls on what kinds of hardware and software can be connected to their networks. In ...

Last time I noted a notable anniversary of a technology-related event, I was a few days early. This time I’m a week late from the 40 th-anniversary date. Hang with me, please; I’ll eventually get my ...

Recently I wrote about a company in Texas that was bawled out by its mobile carrier when the company’s internal phone-signal repeaters began interfering with the carrier’s new 3G network. Though the ...

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Net phone company is pushing for rules that would let consumers decide which devices and software they use on cell phone networks. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering ...