A Baby/Bathwater Kind of Thing
The Washington Post’s lead gadget writer, Rob Pegoraro, graced us with the benefit of his expertise yesterday in a column on the FCC’s Open Internet order (FCC votes for a half-measure on net...
View ArticleHas the FCC Created a Stone Too Heavy for It to Lift?
After five years of bickering, the FCC passed an Open Internet Report & Order on a partisan 3-2 vote this week. The order is meant to guarantee that the Internet of the future will be just as free...
View ArticleDeath to Nuance!
Susan Crawford rings in the New Year in the Yale Law and Policy Review with an article (The Looming Cable Monopoly) that illustrates a prime reason that it’s nearly impossible to have a discussion...
View ArticleMessage to PUCs: Forward or Backward?
While many from the FCC are headed to Vegas to see the latest, coolest devices displayed at the Consumer Electronic Show, I am heading to wintery New York for a conference of State PUC officials. I’m...
View Article2 + 2 does not = 20; or why I’m glad I’m not an equity analyst
It was fun, in a wonky but not a theatrical sense, listening to Tuesday’s FCC meeting on Universal Service and Intercarrier Compensation Reform. All five Commissioners eloquently described the need...
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Measuring American Broadband
The FCC released an important new report Tuesday, Measuring Broadband America, which shows how actual broadband speeds compare to advertising claims. You can read the report and download the data the...
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Wheeler Sets the Broadband Bar Higher than South Korea
Recently, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler gave a speech arguing that “A 25 Mbps connection is fast becoming ‘table stakes’ in 21st century communications,” with the implication that anything less than 25 mbs...
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