Author: Raul Magallanes

Should Your Opinion Count?
  Speak now or forever hold your peace or at least hold it for a long time until provision can be made to hear your arguments. The U.S. Federal Communications...
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To Attach or Not to Attach?
The ability to attach devices to the public telephone network seems to make so much common sense now, but there was a time when this was not possible. Until the...
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What is Broadband?
What is broadband? Don’t be so quick to answer. After all, we use the term regularly without ever stopping to think about its precise meaning. Is broadband high-speed Internet, advanced...
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The Internet: How Neutral Should It Be?
Is Internet traffic neutral, or is it manipulated by network providers for pecuniary and anti-competitive purposes? If so, to what degree? Are application providers getting a free ride by using...
The Status of 3.65 GHz
There have been fierce spectrum battles between the satellite and wireless industries, but there is no rule saying that satellite service providers cannot provide wireless services. As the United States...
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EIRP Density: A Regulatory Tool?
The challenge: Attending to the ever-growing demand for smaller antennas while maintaining the integrity of the 2-degree satellite separation standard. The solution: The use of uplink effective isotropic radiated power...
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Regulating VoIP and the Internet
Unregulated but regulated. Which is it? This is the uncertainty that has arisen since the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) imposed regulations on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), while declaring...
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