How is Prohibiting Consumers from Getting Free Stuff Pro-Consumer?
The Media Marxist Left pushing the terrible Internet policy known as Network Neutrality oft are absurdly called “consumer groups.”
Tagged: wireless
The Least Efficient Part of Government
Spectrum management is the least efficient part of the federal government.
That’s a big national problem because radio spectrum is the essential fuel of the mobile revolution of smart-phones, tablets, video streaming and the Internet of things.
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It’s Groundhog Day: Government Taking Third Stab at Net Neutrality Power Grab
Yet here we remain – stuck in government overreach Groundhog Day.
We haven’t yet seen the Net Neutrality power grab order – but the fact that they’re trying again at all is at once obnoxious and pathetic.
Not yet having seen the order hasn’t stopped the Left from going apoplectic. Because the Left never allows the facts to get in the way of a good beating.
Featured · Government · Internet/Telecom
The Left’s Ever-Expanding, All-Encompassing Net Neutrality
Network Neutrality is socialism for the Internet – it guarantees everyone equal amounts of nothing.
A New FCC and a New Communications Act
Anyone who has followed communications law and policy for a number of years – and I’ve been doing so for over thirty-five years – knows that the marketplace environment has changed dramatically in the last “number” of years. And undeniably – although at times some do try to deny it – the change has been in the direction of more competition and more choice for consumers.
May: FCC, Broadband and Fallacy of Government ‘Competition’
The Federal Communications Commission has been much in the news recently — and deservedly so — owing to its ill-conceived “Critical Information Needs” study. Thankfully, after a public outcry, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler recently canceled this study.
Even When Government Power Grabs Are Overturned – The Left Wins
The Barack Obama Administration has been overstepping its Constitutional bounds since just about five minutes after its first inauguration.
Economics · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
U.S. Wireless Economics Beat EU’s Wireless Uneconomics
Without market economic thinking and pricing that plans ahead and continually funds infrastructure investment, the EU will continue to fall further behind other countries around the world.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs
Why Chairmen Upton and Walden Plan a Communications Act Update
In sum, the need for modernizing America’s communications law is urgent and undeniable.
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 · 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?
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.
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 · Liberty
‘Thousands of NSA Analysts Can Listen to Domestic Phone Calls,’ Read Emails, Texts, IMs
“It ain’t just the metadata.”
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Internet/Telecom · Podcast · Taxes
Heartland Daily Podcast: Nothdurft and Glans Talk Wireless Tax
“It’s a moneygrab by states and localities.”
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.
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[…]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
New Proposal Would End Successful Auction Process for Broadband Spectrum
Wireless communications have improved the lives of millions of people across the United States and the world. However, the rapid expansion of wireless services has brought growing pains: The electronic[…]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation · Taxes
Dear New FCC Chairman Wheeler, Please Stop the Attacks on the Internet
FCC Chairman-to-be Wheeler could do immense good if he ended his predecessor’s existing and prospective power grabs and kept the FCC within its legal authority limits.
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