Video: Scott Cleland on Why We Need a New Communications Law
Scott Cleland has released a new video detailing the pressing need in America for a new communications law.
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Why Can’t the Government Take No for an Answer on Net Neutrality?
Network Neutrality is sadly, yet again back from the dead. Because the Barack Obama Administration keeps insisting on resurrecting it.
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Government Broadband Overbuilds Are Anti-competitive
Governments do not “compete” with companies. Governments tax, limit, police and judge companies. So when governments try and offer a similar service that private companies have long provided consumers, these governments[...]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
A Broadband System Upgrade
As has been widely reported today, Comcast has proposed a $45.2 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable Inc., a merger of the number one and number four video service providers[...]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
Net Neutrality Neutered
Freedom wins in battle to control the ’Net.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Liberty · Podcast · Regulation
Heartland Daily Podcast: Verizon vs. FCC and the Future of Net Neutrality
Supporters of a vibrant and innovative digital economy dodged a bullet in the Verizon vs. FCC decision. But one gets the feeling it won’t be for long.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs
Heartland Institute Experts React to Net Neutrality Ruling by DC Circuit Court
‘While this decision may appear to throw a monkey wrench in the net neutrality regime, in reality it leaves the door open for even more harmful changes.’
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
It’s the Consumer, Stupid! – Part II
Given the competition in the wireless broadband market – indeed, in the broadband marketplace at large – the costs of the FCC interfering with proposals like AT&T’s are likely to outweigh the benefits.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
Is Net Neutrality Trying to Mutate into an Economic Entitlement?
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
Heartland Daily Podcast: A Modern Vision of the FCC- Scott Cleland
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
The Brouhaha Concerning the FCC’s In-Flight Cellphone Proposal Is Misplaced
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’s Special Access Delay of its IP Transition
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.
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.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
Why the FCC Needs to Get With the Times, Finally
We are in the midst of a transition away from copper wire-based communications services to broadband Internet-based services – a transition that then-FCC commissioner Michael Powell called the “Great Digital[...]
Real vs. Contrived “Modern” FCC Policy Thinking – Part 20 Obsolete Communications Law Series
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.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
The transition from narrowband to broadband, from the Analog Age to the Digital Age, has enabled competition to develop in formerly monopolistic markets
Economics · Featured · Legal Affairs
Real vs. Contrived ‘Modern’ FCC Policy Thinking
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.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs · Liberty
NSA, Net Neutrality, It’s All About Controlling the Internet – and You
Net Neutrality mandates that the government regulate the entire Web. Which means the government lords over every single website on the planet. No First Amendment problem there, right?
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.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Liberty
‘Thousands of NSA Analysts Can Listen to Domestic Phone Calls,’ Read Emails, Texts, IMs
“It ain’t just the metadata.”
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