Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
Proponents of Net neutrality regulation continue their full-court press to get the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and its chairman, Julius Genachowski, to unilaterally push through a new industrial policy regime for the Internet. The latest word, according to Politico, is that the agency is pushing back its scheduled December open meeting from Dec. 15 to [...]
The majority on the FCC seems hell-bent on establishing rural broadband subsidies as a perpetual entitlement program that will never “solve” the rural availability problem because the goalposts will keep moving.
We won’t know the actual effects of policies intended to promote broadband deployment unless we first understand how the market would have evolved without any policy changes.
Here are a few things to look out for when the FCC releases its National Broadband Plan tomorrow.
Here are some fascinating factiods contained in the FCC’s fiscal 2011 budget request released this week.
The State of the Union Speech, and the opposition party’s resposne, would be more productive if the audience held their applause until the end.
The Obama administration’s recent decision demosntrates the old adage that data is not knowledge.
The National Broadband Plan outline discussed by FCC staff yesterday shows that good ideas supported by evidence eventually matter.
The FCC’s chairman and broadband task force have announced that they want to include universal service reform in the FCC’s national broadband plan even before the public comment period on this topic has closed. Far from jumping the gun, they are simply recognizing what everyone who follows universal service has known for years.
February 14, 2012
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