Budgets/Taxes · Internet/Telecom
Sometimes You Have to Let Some Government Go
We as a nation need to be looking for many, many ways to cut government (sadly, of course, we really aren’t).
Tagged: FCC
Professor Crawford’s Desperate Search for a Problem to Regulate
Professor Crawford does not understand that the existing, well-functioning, Internet peering system has never suffered from common carrier regulation.
5 BIG Implications from Court Signals on Net Neutrality
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
Capricious Net Neutrality Charges Part 32, FCC Open Internet Order Series
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
New Taxes+Unusable Speed=Good for School? New Math For Politicians?
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.
Defending Google Fiber’s Reasonable Network Management
Your Google Fiber account is for your use and the reasonable use of your guests.
Economics · Featured · Internet/Telecom · Liberty · Regulation
The Rise of Uber: An Emerging Dynamic Economy and its Discontents
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.
1G Government in 4G World
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
Heartland Daily Podcast: Adam Thierer Talks Information, Techonology and Cronyism
“The only way to end cronyism and capture for good is to limit the size and scope of government power.”
Economics · Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
The New U.S. Spectrum Policy Has Big Problems
Since Congress authorized auctions as the preferred mechanism to enable spectrum to find its highest use twenty years ago, U.S. spectrum policy has been market-driven – until now.
Economics · Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
Arbitrary Spectrum Policy
The FCC’s application of its spectrum screen/cap policy is so egregiously arbitrary and capricious it does not pass the laugh test.
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
‘Thousands of NSA Analysts Can Listen to Domestic Phone Calls,’ Read Emails, Texts, IMs
“It ain’t just the metadata.”
Economics · Featured · Internet/Telecom · Politics
The FCC/DOJ’s one gigahertz spectrum charade
The FCC and DOJ do not want to look ridiculous applying a spectrum cap to Verizon and AT&T and not Sprint when the FCC’s own Wireless Competition report shows that Sprint controls roughly twice as many MHz per population as either Verizon or AT&T.
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.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs
More Legal Trouble for FCC’s Open Internet Order & Net Neutrality
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals 3-0 decision to overturn the FCC in Comcast v. FCC/Tennis Channel spells more trouble for the ultimate legality of the FCC’s Open Internet Order.[...]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs · Regulation
Little Impact on FCC Open Internet Order Appeal from SCOTUS Chevron Decision
What’s the impact on the Verizon appeal of the Open Internet Order of the Supreme Court’s strong reaffirmation of its Chevron deference standard, in Arlington v. FCC? I believe Verizon[...]
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[...]
How Ridiculous is Net Neutrality? Let the Left’s ‘Consumer’ Groups Demonstrate
If Net Neutrality exists to prevent reduced content-access – how is increased content-access a violation of Net Neutrality? How, “consumer” groups, is this bad for consumers?
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
Wireless Competition: What’s the Data Say?
The CTIA just released its semi-annual statistics on the wireless industry’s performance, and its bad news for all those supposed data-driven, pro-regulation proponents who are in search of evidence or data to justify regulating wireless or wireless spectrum holdings.
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