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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Status Quo Government Meddling and Cronyism Is…Progress?
by Seton Motley August 11, 2015It hasn’t been a great year from the perspective of shrinking government. In fact, it’s been terrible. Really awful, pork-and-cronyism-filled programs are being refunded, renewed – and even resurrected.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Opinion: ‘Zero Rating’ Is Next Battlefield in FCC’s Digital War on Consumers
by Jesse Hathaway June 1, 2015The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) recent decision to claim full regulatory power over the way the Internet works was bad enough, but the next battle in the government’s war on consumer-friendly innovation is approaching fast.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Decompetition Decompetition Decompetition
by Scott Cleland September 15, 2014The FCC’s new professed mantra is “competition competition competition.”
However, the FCC appears to be pursuing a de facto policy of decompetition rather than competition.
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The Federal Communications Commission’s upcoming “incentive” auction of TV airwaves is already at war with itself.
Somehow the FCC imagines it can maximize the revenue necessary to incent TV broadcasters to sell their 600 MHz spectrum by minimizing actual revenue collection via dis-incenting, and even banning some wireless company bids.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
U.S. Wireless Competition Criticism “Believe It or Not”
by Scott Cleland March 13, 2014With due credit to “Ripley’s Believe it or Not!,”® so much odd and bizarre is happening in Washington in the “name” of “U.S. wireless competition criticism” that the topic calls for its own collection of: “Believe it or Not!”® oddities.
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EconomicsFeaturedInternet/TelecomPolitics
The FCC/DOJ’s one gigahertz spectrum charade
by Scott Cleland June 10, 2013The 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.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
DOJ Joins FCC in Picking Wireless Winners and Losers
by Scott Cleland April 17, 2013The DOJ has joined the FCC in trying to pick market winners (Sprint/T-Mobile) and losers (Verizon/AT&T) in the U.S. wireless market. Recent public filings by the DOJ and the FCC…
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Internet/TelecomPolitics
AT&T Drops T-Mobile Bid, Throws $4 Billion Down Drain, Consumers Lose; Thanks, FCC!
by Jim Lakely December 19, 2011The girl in pink will not be changing into a blue dress after all. AT&T finally threw up its hands after months of wrangling with the Federal Communications Commission and…
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Internet/Telecom
CA Regulators, the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger, and Crony Capitalism
by Jim Lakely July 25, 2011A big reason why The Heartland Institute argues for less government regulation of industry — especially in the digital economy — is because the choices individuals make in a free…
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EconomicsInternet/Telecom
Merger of T-Mobile/AT&T is Good for Consumers
by Jim Lakely March 22, 2011The Heartland Institute has technology experts on staff who weighed in on the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile. Bruce Edward Walker, managing editor of InfoTech & Telecom News and myself…