Former FCC Chair Speaks at MoMo Seattle
Laying more fiber is one way to make more efficient use of wireless spectrum, former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said on Wednesday. Speaking at a Mobile Monday event in Seattle, he was repeating an idea presented by researcher David Clark from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at an FCC panel last year. “A significant amount of mobile broadband activity actually occurs indoors,” Martin said. “That should be gotten off-net quicker.” For instance, he said he might sit on the couch in his house and look something up online using his cell phone, which doesn’t have Wi-Fi. Rather than …