Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
While most folks have been obsessing over their income taxes the past few weeks, Jerry Brito and I have been obsessing about a non-tax: the universal service assessments on our phone bills. More specifically, the Federal Communications Commission has asked for comments on its plan to gradually turn the current phone subsidy program in high-cost [...]
Released on December 31, the 2009 Universal Service Monitoring Report reveals which states are the biggest net gainers and which states are the biggest net payers into the Federal Communications Commission’s Universal Service Fund.
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.
I’ve just posted two new entries over at BroadbandCensus.com (in addtion to the one about FCC v. Fox Televisions Stations) below. Now, I’ve got to go and vote. The pieces at BroadbandCensus.com include a blog post about the real issue in white spaces: not broadcasters versus techies, but keeping the current Swiss-cheese arrangement in the [...]
Readers of Tech Liberation Front may be interested in a new breakfast series that BroadbandCensus.com has recently begun. The next event in this series, “Should Government Funding Be Part of a National Broadband Plan?” will be held on Tuesday, November 18, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., and will include Stan Fendley, the director of [...]
May 28, 2012
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