As the dust has settled from the D.C. Circuit’s January 14th decision to vacate and remand the FCC Open Internet Order for another try, and from FCC Chairman Wheeler’s February 19th statement accepting the court’s invitation to propose open Internet rules that could pass court muster, what does it all this mean going forward?
Network Neutrality is sadly, yet again back from the dead. Because the Barack Obama Administration keeps insisting on resurrecting it.
Governments do not “compete” with companies. Governments tax, limit, police and judge companies. So when governments try and offer a similar service that private companies have long provided consumers, these governments[...]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
As has been widely reported today, Comcast has proposed a $45.2 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable Inc., a merger of the number one and number four video service providers[...]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
Freedom wins in battle to control the ’Net.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs
‘While this decision may appear to throw a monkey wrench in the net neutrality regime, in reality it leaves the door open for even more harmful changes.’
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs
In sum, the need for modernizing America’s communications law is urgent and undeniable.
The FCC should beware of the siren song that government somehow can better allocate spectrum competitive inputs than market economics and competition can.
Over the past several years, the federal government has launched several programs to encourage the development of new and advanced telecommunications services in all areas of the country. The two[...]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
The call for net neutrality is really a call for a return to monopoly common carrier regulation for broadband networks.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs
Since the EU is already pushing net neutrality regulation of broadband and set on banning mobile roaming charges in the EU, it would not be surprising for the EU to propose that the U.S. also adopt net neutrality and broadband pricing restrictions in order to “harmonize” the EU-U.S. communications market as part of the upcoming U.S.-EU Free Trade Agreement.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Liberty · Politics
Because Congress in many areas hasn’t yet addressed the gaping hole of protecting our data from Big Government, we are left exposed and subject to huge, illegal power grabs.
Last Monday at Red State, I wrote: How Ridiculous is Net Neutrality? Let the Left’s ‘Consumer’ Groups Demonstrate In which I referenced a bit of good news on the Internet[...]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Media
It’s hard to be a “public interest” group when private interests better serve the public. Free Press, which effectively defines the “public interest” as being against private interests in media, communications[...]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation · Taxes
FCC Chairman-to-be Wheeler could do immense good if he ended his predecessor’s existing and prospective power grabs and kept the FCC within its legal authority limits.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
The Left wants the Internet and cellular market much more heavily regulated – like they do in Europe. Again, the Barack Obama Administration is (in unilateral, Congress-free fashion) delivering.
Economics · Featured · Internet/Telecom · Politics · Regulation · Taxes
President Barack Obama and the Left have declared the government is now even more extensively in the economic “fairness” business.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Internet/Telecom
Every private sector company spends every waking second (and many sleeping ones) trying to get new customers. It’s a relentless pursuit of improvement. Of their goods and services, customer service,[...]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
Competition is alive and well in the U.S. communications market. Market forces have produced a barrage of big competitive developments in just a few weeks. Dish’s disruptive $25b bid for[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Internet/Telecom
The Big Government, Never-Enough-of-Your-Coin-Coalition – Internet Division – is at it yet again. The Barack Obama Administration has since it’s inception been very active in over-regulating the Web – for[...]
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