Handicapping New America’s Spectrum Auctions Event
Thursday the 21st, the New America Foundation’s Wireless Future Project is holding a policy forum on the question of spectrum caps in the upcoming (next year or the year after)…
Does the Internet Have Permission to Improve?
My first piece as an AEI Visiting Fellow is up on AEI’s Tech News Daily blog; it’s titled Let’s Give the Internet Permission to Improve. This piece addresses the old…
Wheeler Names his Lawyers
New FCC chairman Tom Wheeler wasted no time making staff appointments immediately after being sworn in today, unveiling a slate of 12 appointments to positions in the chairman’s office and…
Qu’ils mangent de la brioche?
As the sun rose this morning, America’s broadband policy wonks were greeted with news that the Open Technology Institute is about to bless us with a new addition to their…
IP Transition: The One Percent Problem
The House Communications and the Internet Subcommittee is holding hearings Wednesday on the IP Transition (which I’ll be attending in person, BTW) so it’s timely to discuss the issues again….
Whose Business Model is to Blame for Internet Piracy?
ICYMI, there’s been a hot controversy for the past couple of days about claims made by Mercatus Center researcher Jerry Brito and Washington Post blogger Tim Lee to the effect…
An Important Study on the IP Transition
I’d like to recommend Anna-Maria Kovacs’ study on the IP transition, Telecommunications competition: the infrastructure-investment race. It’s the most cogent and thorough analysis of the digital communications landscape in the US I’ve…
How Not to Build a More Secure Internet
Eli Dourado, a policy wonk at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, wrote an intriguing op-ed for the New York Times Tuesday, Let’s Build a More Secure Internet. Dourado’s…
Policy Unwired
Our government may be shut down, but America’s broadband networks are alive and kicking, which makes me wonder what their status would be if some of our public-ownership-loving friends had…