Press Releases
| PRESS RELEASES | |
|---|---|
| New Report Examines Next Wave of Internet Connected Devices Mobile Future released a new report, “The Internet’s Third Act: The Connected Device Decade,” examining how the next wave of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and other connected devices will further accelerate mobile opportunity and exacerbate the looming spectrum crunch. |
01/30/12 |
| 2011 Mobile Year-in-Review Mobile Future released an original animated video that takes a rapid-fire tour of key consumer and technology mobile trends in an eventful 2011. The video and accompanying report highlight the staggering growth in consumer mobile usage across a dizzying array of applications and social media platforms. |
12/15/11 |
| Mobile Future Statement on House Communications & Technology Subcommittee Spectrum Markup The House Energy & Commerce Communications & Technology Subcommittee marked up legislation to authorize voluntary spectrum auctions to repurpose broadcast spectrum for mobile use. |
12/01/11 |
| Mobile Future Statement on Chairman Walden’s Spectrum Auction Legislation Mobile Future chairman Jonathan Spalter’s response to the unveiling of the Jumpstarting Opportunity with Broadband Spectrum (JOBS) Act of 2011, authorizing the Federal Communications Commission to conduct voluntary spectrum incentive auctions. |
11/29/11 |
| Mobile Future to Joint Select Committee: Unleash Spectrum So Wireless Can Stimulate Economy Mobile Future Chairman Jonathan Spalter sent a letter to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction urging the Committee to call for voluntary spectrum auctions to meet growing consumer demand, reduce the deficit and spur lasting economic recovery and job creation. |
11/15/11 |
| Mobile Future Statement on Wireless Tax Fairness Act of 2011 The House voted in favor of the Wireless Tax Fairness Act of 2011, prohibiting states or local governments from imposing any new discriminatory taxes on wireless services for five years after enactment. |
11/01/11 |
| Mobile Future Statement on Nominations of Jessica Rosenworcel and Ajit Pai as FCC Commissioners In response to the announcement that Jessica Rosenworcel and Ajit Pai have been nominated to serve as FCC Commissioners, the following statement should be attributed to Jonathan Spalter, chairman of Mobile Future. |
11/01/11 |
| Mobile Future Statement on FCC Action to Modernize Universal Service The FCC approved a plan to modernize the universal service and inter-carrier compensation systems and transition Universal Service Fund support from voice service to broadband. |
10/27/11 |
| Mobile Future Statement on NTIA Second Interim Progress Report on Increasing Availability of Federal NTIA released the agency’s progress report outlining federal spectrum that could be used to meet President Obama’s goal of making available 500 MHz of new spectrum for wireless broadband. |
10/18/11 |
| Report Calls for More Spectrum to Meet Surging Mobile Data Demand and Intensify Wireless Competion Today, Mobile Future and Thomas Hazlett, Professor of Law & Economics, George Mason University and Managing Partner, Arlington Economics LLC, released a new report, Radio Spectrum for a Hungry Wireless World, which finds that more spectrum for wireless networks is needed now in order to meet the unprecedented and continually rising consumer and enterprise demand for mobile devices and to maintain the levels of intense competition in today’s mobile market. |
09/22/11 |
