Public Broadcasting – Time to Close the Federal Spigot
With our soaring deficit and out-of-control federal spending, public broadcasting’s in the cross-hairs of late. Members in the House and Senate are ear-deep in legislative efforts to defund the...
View ArticleAT&T’s T-Mobile Acquisition Should Not Be Exploited to Force Net Neutrality
My piece in yesterday’s Big Government on the AT&T / T-Mobile acquisition – hoping it doesn’t get used to impose more Net Neutrality regulations: AT&T’s T-Mobile Acquisition Should Not Be...
View ArticleHolman Jenkins: Politics Leaves Spectrum Rotting on the Docks
I don’t really have anything to add to this excerpt from Holman Jenkins’ column today, “How We’re Holding Back Broadband,” regarding the spectrum crunch, caused by politics, and how it threatens...
View ArticleVideo: Excerpts of Marco Rubio’s Free State Foundation Address, with Analysis...
Last Thursday here in Washington, Senator Marco Rubio addressed the techpolicy faithful at the Free State Foundation’s annual Spring policy conference. In the video below, Less Government’s Seton...
View ArticleTranscript: Excerpt from WaPo Live Event – Don’t Rig the Spectrum Auction
Attached is a brief excerpt (with audio / pictures and transcript) from a Washington Post Live event, entitled “Spectrum – Supply & Demand,” held on June 18, 2013, in Washington, DC. Participants...
View Article6 Policy Effects of the Proposed Comcast Merger
As you may know, last week Comcast announced that it will acquire Time Warner Cable for $45 billion in stock, making it about 30 million video subscribers large and the clear leader in the pay –TV...
View ArticleMediaFreedom Files Comments on the Comm Act Update with Congress
As part of updating the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the House Energy and Commerce Committee sought third-party comment on the state of U.S. competition policy, asking what Congress could do to...
View ArticleTitle II Partly to Blame for Sprint’s Planned Incentive Auction No-Show?
Remember when Sprint endorsed the FCC’s passage of Title II for ISPs and mobile providers, stating: Sprint does not believe that a light touch application of Title II, including appropriate...
View ArticleAll Americans Would Benefit from More Spectrum
I went to a Capitol Hill briefing last Friday, entitled “An Inclusive and Forward Thinking Spectrum Policy,” hosted by the Progressive Policy Institute, and the Joint Center for Economic and Political...
View ArticleLet’s Keep Brett Glass in Laramie – the Internet Needs It
Brett Glass runs Lariat.net – a small, Wireless Internet Service Provider in Laramie, Wyoming. Brett uses “free” FCC Part 15 spectrum (which rests within the “wi-fi bands”) to deliver broadband...
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