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A couple of weeks ago AT&T Mississippi president, Mayo Flynt, passed through Columbus and spoke with me about the pending merger between wireless carriers AT&T and T-Mobile. The merger is currently being reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission.
Mr. Flynt says the merger is "all about spectrum." The term spectrum refers to communication airwaves. Spectrum is divided up for all types of wireless communications: television, cellular phones, radio, Wi-Fi, even baby monitors.
The exploding use of smartphones has created a spectrum crunch.AT & T mobile data traffic increased by 8000 percent since the iPhone was introduced in 2007 and should continue to skyrocket. Flynt said wireless communications need more spectrum to be able to manage this growth.
Remember when TV broadcasting is going digital a couple of years? This was part of an ongoing effort to overhaul the way spectrum is allocated. Television has been moved to another part of the waves. The amount of spectrum that television was used to hold auctions in 2008 and was widely purchased by wireless carriers to meet this explosive growth.
Verizon and AT & T are the only two major carriers who bid at auction in 2008 for the spectrum space. Neither Sprint nor T-Mobile tried to increase their spectrum holdings in this sale.
Opponents of the merger say the combination of the No. 2 and No. 4 carriers to reduce competition and allow Verizon and AT & T into a de facto duopoly. The fact is that Verizon and AT & T have already about 64 percent of the market share of national wireless. T-Mobile has 11 percent market share. Even without the merger, AT & T and Verizon are in a league different from that of Sprint and T-Mobile. In fact, on a local level, I argue AT&T and Verizon stand more competition from regional carriers like CellularSouth. CellularSouth has a reputation for offering affordable plans and great service while AT&T ranked dead last in a 2010 customer satisfaction survey conducted by Consumer Reports. (CellularSouth opposes the merger.
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The interesting thing about this merger for Mississippi is the potential it holds to bring broadband Internet access to nearly the entire state. Our state's population is not concentrated; Internet service providers are already offering broadband
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If Bennie Thompson Wants NE Jackson… « Majority In Mississippi
Jackson Jambalaya had some interesting scoop recently on a current battle going on between Bennie Thompson and Gregg Harper regarding Congressional redistricting. The talk is that Thompson apparently wants Northeast Jackson precincts currently in the Third District represented by Harper.
This seemed like a bit of a surprising move. In more than 20 years, Thompson has made little to no outreach to the white voters he has represented, and he hasn’t need a white vote to win election. So why would he suddenly want to add a largely white area to his district? One, adding these voters won’t alter the black voting age population of his district in any significant fashion. Perhaps Thompson would like these more well-off precincts in what is one of the poorest CD’s in the county, but it would be ironic that he would prefer white Northeast Jackson residents over largely poor African-Americans in Southwest Mississippi. Plus there are those who will argue that Thompson cares little about the Delta and southwest portions of his district.
But the truth is adding just Northeast Jackson won’t be enough though.
Also, this loss wouldn’t hamper Harper’s re-election hopes. I suppose he would lose some donors, but MS-03 isn’t a district Democrats are going to be competitive in any time soon.
On the plus side, this move would unify all of Hinds county. But you could also argue this would help with the movement of whites from Jackson to Madison and Rankin counties.
For an overview of my latest map I have drawn, here it is with four incumbent friendly districts drawn 3/1 R:
I created this new proposed map giving Thompson Northeast Jackson (along with a couple majority black Ridgeland precincts), but still added precincts from Panola and Yalobusha in the north, Leake and northern Madison in the central part of the state, and Adams and Wilkinson in the southwest. I also took some largely white precincts from Attala and Copiah to give to Harper.
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