High Tech Forum

Anna Gomez, veteran of NTIA, FCC, Capitol Hill, and Wiley Rein, discusses how to create a national spectrum plan to make allocation and funding of future networks more efficient

Intel chief of global spectrum policy Jayne Stancavage discusses the process of promoting highest uses of radio frequency spectrum

Shane Tews and Richard discuss 5G apps and their need for spectrum

Mary Brown discusses RF spectrum issues such as auctions, licenses, applications, and the roles of the marketplace and the government.

Richard and Will Rinehart discuss broadband infrastructure plans, continued

A conversation with Will Rinehart on broadband buildout and inclusion programs: what works and what doesn't.

Tom Evslin and Richard discuss Tom's experience with the Starlink beta in Vermont and Tom's battle with the Vermont legislature to accept Starlink for subsidized service for low income Vermonters

John Horrigan, the leading digital inclusion scholar, visits the High Tech Forum podcast to explain the dynamics of this issue. The conversation covers the issues of network deployment and barriers to adoption such as cost, computer ownership, relevance, and technical skills. This is deeply sourced discussion, not the usual bumper sticker approach to getting people online.

A discussion of zero-trust architecture with Dr. Lisa J. Porter

Phoenix Center scholars join HTF to discuss Cost of Connectivity report

Internet Integrity: A discussion with Dominique Lazanski and Stacie Hoffman on China’s invasion of Internet standards organizations

Diane Rinaldo and Chris Boyer of the Open RAN Policy Coalition discuss their work with Richard Bennett. Open RAN is all about making 5G networks modular, secure, and reliable.

FCC General Counsel evaluates the motivation and impact of the 5G Truther movement on the deployment of 5G and the economic recovery.

Richard Bennett and Shane Tews on dominant firms in the Internet marketplace

Dave Belson on Internet reliability

Shane Tews and Richard Bennett discuss DoH, the TPI Aspen Forum, and hot topics in Internet policy

Stacie Hoffman on DNS over HTTPS

Former FCC commissioner Harold Furchgott-Roth vists the podcast for a chat on mmWave and the role of economics in policy-making.

What to do about Huawei's dominance of 5G switches

Richard and Shane talk 5G and the FTC

ITS Director Keith Gremban explains 5G radio propogation

Shane Tews and Richard Bennett talk about Wi-Fi, security, and European regulations.

High Tech Forum Podcast with FCC Commissioner Mike O'Reilly

Connected Carr by Richard Bennett

Will Rinehart on Cambridge Analytica by Richard Bennett

Richard and Shane Talk About 5G by Richard Bennett

Shane and Richard Talk Performance by Richard Bennett

Ask the Engineer: Phones and 5G by Richard Bennett

Tom Evslin (founder of ITXC), Barry Shein (founder of the first ISP, The World) and John Day (author of Patterns in Network Architecture and manager of the 7 layer network architecture) explain why the Internet is nothing at all like the telephone network

Bret Swanson on Moore's Law, platforms, and net neutrality

Roslyn Layton discusses academic studies of net neutrality regulations around the world.

Wireless engineer Peter Rysavy explains problems Title II Internet regulation is likely to case for 5G networks.

Dave Farber and Richard Bennett discuss implications of Title II regulation on Internet Service Providers

Discussion with Howard Waltzman on the state of Internet privacy practices and regulation in the wake of the Congressional Resolution of Disapproval on the FCC's privacy NPRM

Discussion with Professor Charles Jackson on the nature of radio interference.

In this podcast, Shane Tews and Richard discuss key issues likely to grab the FCC's attention this year, the impact of Chairman Ajit 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.

In this year-in-preview High Tech Forum podcast, Dave Farber and Richard Bennett continue their discussion (listen to part one here) about the technologies that are going to change our world in the coming year. Look for major advances in virtual and augmented reality, security, and the architecture of critical systems. The problem of funding basic research remains unresolved, but Dave has some ideas about how to address it.

In this year-in-review High Tech Forum podcast, Dave Farber and Richard Bennett discuss the things that changed our world - both tech and non-tech - this year and what we expect from the coming one.

In this edition of the High Tech Forum Podcast, Richard Bennett is joined by long-time ICANN observer Shane Tews (@ShaneTews) for the lowdown on current issues in international Internet governance. While the surrender of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) from US government control to international oversight caused some heartburn - both genuine and feigned - in the US, it hasn't had much effect on the world stage.

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 agency’s set-top box and broadband privacy proposals, and a big item Pai would like on the 2017 FCC agenda. This podcast was recorded last week ahead of the lifting of the “sunshine” prohibition on the FCC’s set-top box item and ahead of the release of Chairman Wheeler’s broadband privacy fact sheet.

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 duo discuss the next generation of new technology ignited by Pokémon GO, they note the importance of advances in technology from the landline phone to the smartphone and then to the communication technologies of today and tomorrow. When you stop thinking about it as a game and think of it as a platform, you see that “your real world map becomes a new kind of user experience. It is a new way of thinking about entertainment and reality,” Malik says regarding Pokémon GO.

Since, Saturday August 27th, is the 40th anniversary of the first transmission over the Internet, Richard spoke with Don Nielson, the man who made it happen. Don explains the successful test his team conducted with a mobile digital radio truck parked outside Rossotti’s beer garden in Portola Valley, California, and the ARPA office in Boston.

In this High Tech Forum podcast edition, Stacey Higginbotham (@gigastacey) joins Richard Bennett (@iPolicy) to talk about what the Internet of Things (IoT) means for the present and future of communications and information technology. Higginbotham is the creator of The Internet of Things Podcast and authors a weekly Internet of Things newsletter. She has spent the last 15 years covering technology and finance for publications such as Fortune, Gigaom, The Deal, The Bond Buyer, BusinessWeek, and Time.

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 of viewers today. “The set-top box NPRM would have made sense 10-years ago…the order is just so far out of step with where the actual technology is and where the marketplace is today. The only other justification is maybe it was put together by people who don’t watch TV or they have political motives vs. economic or technical,” Bennett shares with Tews.

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. Thelander describes a study his firm conducted on the impact of LTE Unlicensed’s (LTE-U) on real Wi-Fi systems that produced some surprising results. While critics of LTE-U have warned that it hogs the airwaves and impairs Wi-Fi systems by grabbing bandwidth too aggressively, SRG found LTE-U has less impact on Wi-Fi per unit of data than Wi-Fi has with itself. This is a matter of LTE-U’s more efficient use of spectrum and the fact that some Wi-Fi Alliance-certified systems treat every piece of information as if it were super-critical.

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 wireless engineer Peter Rysavy about the excitement around the coming 5G network and the future of Wi-Fi.

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 network innovation. In this discussion, Rysavy explains that 5G will have immensely more capacity than today’s networks. He explains that future mobile broadband could be a wireline replacement. He notes that the 5G network is “being redesigned from the ground up,” will support a larger range of applications vital for the Internet of Things, and will “permeate our lives and economy.”

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 mobile web access. The mobile revolution is driven by advances in radio spectrum engineering and mobile connectivity. In this podcast, High Tech Forum founder Richard Bennett and Shane Tews of the American Enterprise Institute and Vrge Strategies discuss how these remarkable developments are revolutionizing everyday products integral to our lives, including Li-Fi, 5G, FirstNet and connectivity for the Internet of Things

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 podcast, founder Richard Bennett addresses some of these inconsistencies with Shane Tews of the American Enterprise Institute and Vrge Strategies. The two discuss the technological problems with the FCC’s Title II regulation that stem from the Commission’s attempt to extend telephone system regulations to broadband Internet. This has created inconsistency after inconsistency.

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 of international broadband performance and emerging trends on the global Internet. The report leverages Akamai’s global content delivery network infrastructure to assemble a well-informed view of broadband performance, connectivity, cyber-security trends and metrics, including Internet connection speeds, broadband adoption, mobile usage, outages, cyber-attacks and web security threats. Bennett refers to the “State of the Internet” report as his “go-to data set for doing international broadband comparisons.”