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Is there economic hope for the future? A widely reported JPMorgan study released in early September suggested that Apple's iPhone 5 would increase 4th quarter economic growth by between 0.25 percent and 0.5 percent. Surely the iPhone 5 is a great device and will have many sales around the world. Unfortunately, I believe the JPMorgan calculations are not accurate.

Over the past several weeks, the American public has seen a stark contrast between the two major political parties in their views about the role of government in business, particularly small business. In a campaign speech in Roanoke, Virginia, President Obama emphasized the importance of government support for business in a wide range of activities from infrastructure such as roads to Internet research and development.

The Commerce Department recently issued the gross domestic product measures for the second quarter of 2012. The news, a meager 1.5 percent growth, is not good for either the economy as a whole or the wireless sector.

Verizon and various cable companies may join a long line of American companies that considered cross-marketing arrangements and may even have attempted cross-marketing arrangements. But ultimately,  they, too, will discover that cross-marketing arrangements do not easily work.

Harold Furchtgott-Roth Over the past few months, the Federal Communications Commission has received dozens of comments from the public for the current version of its annual report on

Harold Furchtgott-Roth I recently received a notice about a program on May 23 in Washington, D.C., entitled, "From Broadcast to Broadband: New Theories of Public Interest in Wireless."

Harold Furchtgott-Roth Is there a "spectrum shortage?" Those two words send shivers down the spines wireless industry executives. New services demand ever more spectrum, and, the story

Suppose you met a young person who just received a job offer from a wireless communications company. Should you congratulate him or her on entering one of the few bright areas in the American economy