FCC Shouldn’t Pick Wireless Technologies
The FCC should beware of the siren song that government somehow can better allocate spectrum competitive inputs than market economics and competition can.
Tagged: broadband
Rural Broadband Program Misses the Mark
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[...]
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Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
Dial-up Rules for the Broadband Age?
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
U.S. Competition Beats EU Regulation in Broadband Race
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
With Tens of Millions of Phone Records Grabbed – It’s the Government, Stupid
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.
The Left – Feeble Arguments, Weak Shots, Conspiracy Theories and Zero Debate
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
America’s Private Video Market Success
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
Dear New FCC Chairman Wheeler, Please Stop the Attacks on the Internet
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
Sorry Left, U.S. Actually Does the Internet Better Than Europe
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
‘Fair’: Government Taxing Businesses to Fund Competitors to Their Businesses
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
Only Government Complains About Having More Customers
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
What Do Dish-Sprint, Google Fiber, & T-Mobile’s No Contracts, All Mean?
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
Federal Government Looking to Tax Internet – And Let States Do It Too
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[...]
Obama Again Picking Private Sector Losers at the Expense of Winners
The Barack Obama Administration is fabulously successful at choosing terribly in the private sector. Solyndra. Fisker. The Chevy Volt. Ener1. A123 Systems. Beacon Power. Abound Solar. Evergreen Solar. And on,[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Internet/Telecom · Politics
You Can Have a Big Economy, or a Big Government – Not Both
President Barack Obama has for five-plus years said and done two contradictory things regarding the United States’ economy. 1) He has repeatedly said that he wants the private sector to recover –[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
The Next Obama Appointee – Another Huge Shift to the Left?
President Obama’s second-term Cabinet choices have been much further to the Left than their predecessors.
Private Firm Bests Government Attempts to Bridge Digital Divide
Comcast has instituted a program, now in its second year, called Internet Essentials. Its purpose is to give low-income families — those eligible for school lunch programs — affordable access to broadband[...]
To Attack the Internet, Obama Admin is About to Lie About It. Again
The mostly regulation-free Internet has become a free speech, free market Xanadu. So of course President Barack Obama and his Left want to regulate the daylight out of it. In their[...]
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- Millennials: Obama Thinks You’re Stupid | FreedomWorks
- The Bureaucracy on Autopilot
- Jonah Goldberg - Obamacare Schadenfreudarama
- House Democratic Leaders: We Will Not Apologize to Americans Losing Their Health Insurance
