broadband
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The challenge for the FCC has been, and will continue to be, to fill the “spectrum pipeline” with more available spectrum to meet the ever-increasing demand by consumers.
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Budgets/TaxesInternet/Telecom
Britain’s Labour Party Says They’ll Have Government Seize Private Broadband Networks
by Seton Motley November 18, 2019And so does the US Left. Though our Democrat Party is still playing it a little more coy.
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Internet/Telecom
More Internet And Access? We Need More Spectrum And Less Government
by Seton Motley February 20, 2019The Left is the world’s worst choir. Singing dissonantly if not concordantly about how good things are – no matter how bad things are. And, conversely, about how bad things are – no matter how good things are.
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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
Streamlining the Future: Reducing Resistance to Broadband Everywhere
by Bartlett Cleland July 23, 2018Next week, the Senate Commerce Committee is scheduled to move forward on the ”STREAMLINE Small Cell Deployment Act.”
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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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Internet/Telecom
Six Definitions that are Preventing Consensus on Net Neutrality
by Scott Cleland April 30, 2017Why is net neutrality, the controversial notion that all Internet traffic should be treated the same, so difficult to resolve? An underappreciated reason is each side defines the core terms of net neutrality very differently.
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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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Some municipalities around the country have tried, and failed to set up or operate their own broadband communications networks, to compete in the business of broadband service. The reasons for the failures are numerous, but in all cases taxpayer money was put at risk often without approval of taxpayers and often wasted.
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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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Regulation
Appeals Court Blasts Big Deregulatory Hole Between FCC & FTC Jurisdictions
by Scott Cleland September 6, 2016A Ninth Circuit Court decision overturned an FTC enforcement action against AT&T for “throttling” broadband data speeds by definitively ruling that the FTC did not have any legal jurisdiction over AT&T (and other common carriers) because of the explicit common carrier exemption in the FTC’s core Section 5 legal authority.
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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/Taxes
Regulations Kill Economies – Obama’s Is the Regulation Administration
by Seton Motley May 17, 2016A recurring headline in the Age of President Barack Obama begins with things like “Obama Administration Issues New Rules…” and “Administration Targets…” and various variations on this theme. To wit: