Broadband providers have no incentive to limit flow of traffic
Free Press has never showed evidence that net neutrality will spur investment. Economides is correct. Why change the traditional rules of broadband, which has been hands off for three decades. The...
View ArticleThe Open Internet Coalition wrongly defines ISPs
The argument by the Open Internet Coalition, that Internet service providers do not provide information services, is bogus. According to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, an information service is...
View ArticleOf Valentines and Bubba fifteen years later
I frequently joke that as I have gotten older, my short term memory isn’t worth a darn. Thank goodness for my eight-year old who has a memory like a steel tank. As for my long term memory, it’s doing...
View ArticleAll universes expand and contract
There is a theory that the universe’s rate of expansion is slowing down and at some point, the universe will contract, collapsing on itself. Hopefully the process repeats itself. Then again, I won’t be...
View ArticleIs FCC Policy on Special Access Holding Back Broadband Adoption?
AT&T, in a blog post, has raised concerns about the Federal Communications Commission currently considering revamping a 1999 policy that introduced competitive treatment of special access lines....
View ArticleSection 706 Puts FCC in Unnecessary Bind
Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act puts the Federal Communications Commission in a peculiar bind. The statute requires that the FCC determine whether Americans have access to high-speed,...
View ArticleThe uncertainty behind applying sec. 706 of the Telecom Act
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler in the wake of the decision in Verizon v. FCC published a blog post discussing how the FCC will apply section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of...
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