Media Freedom Calls Cable 'Bully' in LTE-U/Wi-Fi Interoperability Battle
The weapon of choice in fights over LTE-U/Wi-Fi interoperability is increasingly short cartoons of playground bullies. The cable industry, in its opposition to LTE-U, "is "acting like the bully who got to the playground first and now won't let the…
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new kid play on the playground," Media Freedom said in a YouTube video posted Monday in which "Big Cable" is depicted as a unibrowed lunkhead who is shown the value of sharing. The cable industry's opposition to LTE-U is all about fear of competition from a better wireless service under the pretext of worries about Wi-Fi interference, Media Freedom said in a companion blog Monday. "Tests clearly show that LTE-U coexists and 'plays nicely' with Wi-Fi," said the free-market advocacy group in part funded by the communications industry. "The cable industry claims otherwise, and is using every excuse in the book to delay its implementation, going so far as to urge the FCC ‘to act’ and ensure the ‘right standards’ are in place, basically regulating unregulated unlicensed spectrum where innovation has flourished." The "bully" tag and playground setting are almost identical to language and imagery language the WifiForward coalition used in a video it put out earlier this month (see 1509090046) as it raised concerns about Wi-Fi interference from LTE-U.