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.
Can broadband policymakers learn from more than 100 years of American experience with railroad regulation?
In a letter to the editor of the Washington Post last week, former FTC Commissioner Thomas Leary responded to a Post article describing the FTC’s suit against Intel as a “major step for President Obama,” consistent with his campaign promise to “reinvigorate antitrust enforcement.” Leary responded indignantly to this characterization by declaring: People seem to [...]
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.
by Adam Thierer & Berin Szoka Move over, health care reform, climate change, and the economy. Judging by White House visits by various government agency heads, the Obama administration instead appears preoccupied with the re-regulation of communications, media, and the Internet. The Administration has just released logs of all visitors to the White House and [...]
None of the usual watchdogs are barking about the FCC letting the White House comment on its net neutrality regulations before they were proposed.
Maybe the best way to promote net neutrality is to ensure that there’s plenty of last-mile bandwidth.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski suggested at an FCC field hearing this week that the federal government might create its own “version of iTunes.” Multichannel News reports: The chairman asked panelists to think about the value of a clearinghouse where best practices could be shared. He suggested that might be a way to spur the spin-off [...]
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