They’re all actively preparing to enter the over-the-top online video business with their own streaming service or proprietary online programming to compete with Netflix, Hulu, and facilities-based pay-TV providers like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, DirecTV, Dish, AT&T, Verizon, and others.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
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[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Liberty · Taxes
A survey conducted by the R-Street Institute and the National Taxpayers Union shows that voters across the ideological spectrum oppose the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA). If signed into law, the[...]
Economics · Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
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.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
Uber, a tech start-up and on-demand transportation service, is under attack by anti-innovation regulation in Washington DC.
Timing is everything. That’s why, Tom Wheeler, the President’s nominee for Chairman of the FCC, could become one of the most consequential FCC leaders in American history.
Will the new FCC Chair’s mindset and instincts be forward-looking, toward more Internet innovation and progress, or nostalgic for the FCC’s telephone regulatory heydays of yesteryear? Already Public Knowledge is calling[...]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering a proposal that would create a new tax on broadband Internet service. The new tax would be designated to fund the Connect America Fund[...]
“Flexibility.” It’s a word that everyone in politics loves. They love it so much, they overuse it, deploying it in situations where it conflicts directly with the facts. That’s the[...]
Mr. Zuckerberg: When you set out to create Facebook (then “The Facebook”) you didn’t work within the confines of what was already there. You built what should be there. You[...]
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