Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
Activists are freaking out about AT&T’s Sponsored Data plan because it defiles their utopian ideal of perfect Internet egalitarianism of universal, unlimited, free, downstream-bandwidth for edge creators.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Podcast
In this podcast, The Heartland Institute Director of Communications, Jim Lakely and Senior Policy Analyst, Matthew Glans discuss Scott Cleland’s latest paper “A Modern Vision for the FCC.”
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
Thursday, the FCC considered issuing a proposal that seeks comment on the Commission’s rules regarding the use of mobile wireless services on board aircraft. In my view, the proposal to seek public comment should be adopted.
FCC staff just muffed an easy opportunity to advance the IP transition on the FCC’s timetable in the National Broadband Plan. Apparently FCC staff missed the big picture here.
Featured · Government · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
Refocusing efforts to improve consumer choice by eliminating legacy regulatory distortions in the video marketplace would be an important step in diminishing the likelihood of TV blackouts.
The FCC should beware of the siren song that government somehow can better allocate spectrum competitive inputs than market economics and competition can.
As the newly reconstituted Commission moves forward to tackle thorny issues, such as the IP transition and the incentive auction, the agency will be confronted with incessant pleas from various parties seeking “fairness” and a “level playing field” in the name of promoting competition.
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 · Regulation
The transition from narrowband to broadband, from the Analog Age to the Digital Age, has enabled competition to develop in formerly monopolistic markets
When will the FCC acknowledge the obvious?
Economics · Featured · Legal Affairs
Just like the wisdom that one cannot make a silk purse from a sow’s ear; one cannot make “modern” FCC policy from obsolete communications law.
Budgets/Taxes · Internet/Telecom
We as a nation need to be looking for many, many ways to cut government (sadly, of course, we really aren’t).
Professor Crawford does not understand that the existing, well-functioning, Internet peering system has never suffered from common carrier regulation.
The practical effect of the FCC reclassifying broadband would be an effective rewrite of the 1996 Telecom Act to favor monopoly regulation over competition.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs
The fact that U.S. senators and representatives imagine that a billing dispute among companies could be considered a net neutrality violation illustrates how arbitrary and capricious net neutrality politics and the FCC’s Open Internet order have become.
Education · Featured · Politics · Taxes
If we are to truly achieve a national goal of greater broadband adoption including more ubiquitous broadband in schools, then states, localities and the FCC, even if pushed by the President, cannot be allowed to continue the shameless pile up of discriminatory taxes on wireless communications.
Your Google Fiber account is for your use and the reasonable use of your guests.
Economics · Featured · Internet/Telecom · Liberty · Regulation
The growing use of Uber to hail a cab is economic dynamism at its finest: an unregulated Internet service upending an old, established service with consumers reaping the rewards.
Much of the federal government’s communications core management and operations hasn’t changed since the General Services Administration created the Federal Telecommunications Service in 1960.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Podcast · Regulation
“The only way to end cronyism and capture for good is to limit the size and scope of government power.”
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