Are not watching video or emailing, if you are not doing is more it effective and costefficient. We are talking about the old Voice Network. How do we move from the cost benefits of the Service Benefits by thinking about how things have to change . Another thing going on that we have not talked about. We talked about the supply side and how people provide it. In the wayhanges users arent using the network. Not the services but what people want. Place inte is taking europe. They have a set of universal Service Obligations that still includes phonebooks. A lot of us today say we cannot remember the last time we looked at a phone book. That information is obsolete. Online is more efficient. Another thing that is part of their universal Service Obligation as payphones. In the world of ubiquitous cell phones you cannot find a pay phone on most streetcorners anymore. They are not useful because of the way people are using the network. One of the pivotal questions is we used to think about vo
Its a pleasure to be here today to talk about the i. P. Transition. But before we do what i want to talk about is another transition thats been occurring and thats directly related, and thats the transition of our networks from copper to fiber. Of course its generally understood today Everybody Knows that fiber to the home is the best Broadband Network possible and one that many are striving to obtain. When verizon started to roll this out ten years ago it wasnt so obvious and we got a lot of questions about why we were doing this. Who needs 30 megabits per second . But Everybody Knows today that we need much more than that which is why were now up to 500 per second over the fiber and much more to come. So fiber is an important part of the i. P. Transition and a basis for the i. P. Transition. But the transition of voice from copper to fiber doesnt depend on i. P. And thats what i wanted to talk about for a few minutes. So fiber started in the Telephone Network many years ago. There ar
That and more when bloomberg west returns. Welcome back. I am emily chang. A Taxi Organization has won a ruling that could halt Uber Operations in germany. They see the drivers do not have the correct hermits to operate turk permits to operate in the country. , paul, thisith us is the First Nationwide ban of uber. In various banned cities. How big of a deal is this . It has the potential to be a big deal. Germany is already being scolded for this a little bit. Digital commissioner came out saying this is not the way we want to support innovation, digital or otherwise. This is the wrong approach. They are already being ostracized. This court has no enforcement capacity. Shouting about libertarianism, claiming to be a start up, but it is really just google and goldman sachs. It is remarkable rhetoric in terms of trying to make a charged idea instead of being in the defense of a very expensive taxi cartel. Germany has some of the highest per mile rates. Uber pop is something only availabl
September 18, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The extra time is for them to answer some questions from the fcc. Lets call it the extreme selfie. Sending a drone into the sky and using it to take a picture of . Yourself, of course. We take our very first droneie as nasa starts developing an air Traffic Control system for drones. To our lead story, the key icloudn, was the Apple Service hacked . Did that lead to the posting of nude photos of celebrities . The fbi and apple are investigating after an anonymous hacker claimed the images were taken from their icloud account. If this is true, what does it say about the ability of apple to protect user information with its highly anticipated iphone event just one week away . Joining us from los angeles, a Security Officer from senate symantec. Joining us from san diego, are bloomberg contributing editor and contributing editor, Paul Kedrosky. What does this mean just one week before this big event for apple . Pretty terrib
Executives, and debate the question of National Security versus freedom of information. This 90 minute event was hosted by the new America Foundation. The Gilder Lehrman institute of American History. And dickinson college. Ok, good morning and welcome to the new America Foundation. We are here for the third and in our panel series of president s at war. This is a series for the understanding lincoln course , brought to you by the Gilder Lehrman institute for American History and dickinson college. So we are engaged in a discussion of Abraham Lincoln and his role in his legacy in American Society but were also thinking about how the issues he confronted as a commander in chief, as a president had he president have evolved in the modern day and where they might be headed in the future. This panel is about the role of the press. This is the wartime press and Civil Liberties during war. It is one of the most controversial aspects of lincolns legacy. It remains one of the most controversia