broadband
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Internet/Telecom
FCC, Please Speed the Deployment of Broadband
by Bartlett Cleland September 27, 2018Yesterday the FCC held an open commission meeting
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Internet/Telecom
Government Must Put Innovation First in Communications Innovation, Including 5G
by Bartlett Cleland August 10, 2018T-Mobile’s CEO John Legere and Sprint’s Executive Chairman Marcelo Claure discussed at length their combined company’s plans for 5G deployment if the government approves their merger.
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Microsoft President Brad Smith announced recently a broad, sustained, cooperative initiative among private industry and federal, state and local governments to extend broadband access ultimately to all Americans where broadband has been most lagging.
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GovernmentInternet/TelecomPolitics
Fake News Vs Real Collusion: Wash Post Concocts The Former, Protects The Latter
by Seton Motley June 27, 2017The Washington Post is a legacy, old school fake news outlet. Aside from the New York Times, no newspaper carries more national clout.
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Internet/Telecom
Why Title II Net Neutrality Directly Conflicts with Consumer Privacy
by Scott Cleland April 14, 2017Net neutrality and consumer privacy are in tension because they are very different concepts, priorities, and approaches for the handling of information online.
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Internet/Telecom
You’d Never Have Heard Of Google And Facebook, Netflix And Uber Without…
by Seton Motley March 22, 2017Everything these companies own, owe themselves to Internet Service Providers (ISPs.)
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Appropriately, city and local governments try to find ways to improve the municipality for its citizens. Inappropriately, some municipalities have tried to either set up their own networks or to partner with companies to get into the business of broadband.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Reason will eclipse politics when GOP takes over FCC on Jan. 20
by Scott Cleland December 18, 2016When a Republican majority takes over at the Federal Communications Commission on Jan. 20, expect an immediate and profound regulatory mindset reset to reasoned, fact-based decision-making and regulatory humility.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Hillary Clinton’s Terrible Government Broadband Plan
by Seton Motley August 16, 2016With all the attending awfulness you expect. The laxness, the arrogance – the terrible performance. (See: ObamaCare, the Post Office, “green energy,” your Department of Motor Vehicles,….) And the willful denial of the fact that innumerable past failures – portend more of the exact same, should we be foolish enough to yet again try the exact same.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Government-Owned Internet Projects are a Bad Deal for Taxpayers, Consumers
by Jesse Hathaway May 20, 2016Despite claims of helping low-income earners access the Internet, and thereby joining the digital economic revolution, taxpayer-funded Internet infrastructure projects have a long and expensive history of failing to achieve their stated goals, even though government Internet services enjoy advantages over private businesses.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
The FCC is Just Another Dishonest, Authoritarian Arm of the Obama Administration
by Seton Motley April 20, 2016The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) describes itself thus: “An independent U.S. government agency overseen by Congress.” Under the Barack Obama Administration, it has been none of these things.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Many in Washington DC are Drowning in Lake Me
by Seton Motley March 15, 2016I’ve heard the following quote ascribed to National Basketball Association (NBA) player, coach and executive Pat Riley – but the Internet is not giving up the ghost on provenance to him or anyone else. As I recall, the recitation is: “That player is drowning in Lake Me.” Meaning a person who is totally self-absorbed. Transfixed by their own navel (which actually has a name – Omphaloskepsis). A person who finds himself endlessly fascinating – and utterly invaluable.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
FCC’s Arbitrary Competition Policy — Edge Platforms Can’t Be Gatekeepers?
by Scott Cleland March 5, 2016Looking backwards at 1934-era Title II telephone utility law, the FCC concluded in its 2015 Open Internet Order that only broadband providers could be “gatekeepers” warranting net neutrality regulation to “protect and promote the “virtuous cycle” that drives innovation and investment on the Internet.”