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A National Infrastructure Bank: A Road Guide to the Destination
Download the entire memo. President Obama has proposed a National Infrastructure Bank, a simple declarative sentence that left most listeners wondering what he meant. The confusion arises partly...
View ArticleShaping the Digital Age: A Progressive Broadband Agenda
The broadband Internet is an epochal technology. It is transforming the economy and changing the nature of everyday life. Its construction and development requires large quantities of resources, and...
View ArticleFive Key Objectives for a Progressive Broadband Policy
For many progressives, “getting the Internet right” means addressing what they see as undue market power in the provision of broadband and, even more so, the potential for the abuse of that market...
View ArticleA Merger of Necessity
The proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner highlights the vast gap between the imagined world the broadband industry’s critics and the real world in which these companies must compete. For...
View ArticleThe Hill: Been there, done that on broadband
A DC federal court struck down the FCC’s “net neutrality” regulations earlier this year, but did nothing to resolve an ongoing debate over whether or how the government should regulate the Internet....
View ArticleA Brief History of Internet Regulation
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Proposals to regulate the Internet are often presented as “new” solutions to deal with modern problems, but the most significant of these proposals, such as “network neutrality” and...
View ArticleThanks To Bill Clinton, We Don’t Regulate The Internet Like A Public Utility
A DC federal court struck down the FCC’s “net neutrality” regulations earlier this year, but did nothing to resolve an ongoing debate over whether or how the government should regulate the Internet....
View ArticleFCC’s Wheeler Plays Hand Courts Dealt Him
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s determination that he can allow Internet Service Providers to offer differentiated service options to websites and content providers – an ability that “net neutrality”...
View ArticleThe State of U.S. Broadband: Is It Competitive? Are We Falling Behind?
Advocates for new regulation of the U.S. broadband Internet base their case on the related contentions that (i) our nation lags behind the rest of the world in quality, price, and deployment of...
View ArticleSurgery on a Healthy Patient
As Congress considers new Internet openness rules to replace the “net neutrality” regulations recently struck down by the courts, critics of U.S. broadband have called for a major overhaul of how we...
View ArticleReuters: One last chance to save the Internet — from the FCC
As the Federal Communications Commission readies new net-neutrality rules this week, congressional Democrats face a choice: Should they work with the Republicans who control Congress to help pass new...
View ArticleEhrlich: The Wrong Way to Enact The Wrong Policy — The FCC’s No Good, Very...
“This is no more a plan to regulate the Internet than the First Amendment is a plan to regulate free speech,” said Federal Communications Commission Chair Tom Wheeler, whereupon he cast the deciding...
View ArticleWashington Monthly: For More and Better Choices in Wireless Broadband,...
“Buy land,” Will Rogers is famous for having said, “They’re not making any more of it.” But the same constraint applies to a similar resource – electromagnetic spectrum, the real estate on which the...
View ArticleEhrlich for The International Economy: Whom Do Today’s Financial Market Serve
The hunt for culprits after the Wall Street meltdown of 2008 has obscured systemic changes in the way financial markets work today, according to a fascinating new article in The International Economy....
View ArticleThe Hill: Been there, done that on broadband
A DC federal court struck down the FCC’s “net neutrality” regulations earlier this year, but did nothing to resolve an ongoing debate over whether or how the government should regulate the Internet....
View ArticleA Brief History of Internet Regulation
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Proposals to regulate the Internet are often presented as “new” solutions to deal with modern problems, but the most significant of these proposals, such as “network neutrality” and...
View ArticleThanks To Bill Clinton, We Don’t Regulate The Internet Like A Public Utility
A DC federal court struck down the FCC’s “net neutrality” regulations earlier this year, but did nothing to resolve an ongoing debate over whether or how the government should regulate the Internet....
View ArticleFCC’s Wheeler Plays Hand Courts Dealt Him
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s determination that he can allow Internet Service Providers to offer differentiated service options to websites and content providers – an ability that “net neutrality”...
View ArticleThe State of U.S. Broadband: Is It Competitive? Are We Falling Behind?
Advocates for new regulation of the U.S. broadband Internet base their case on the related contentions that (i) our nation lags behind the rest of the world in quality, price, and deployment of...
View ArticleSurgery on a Healthy Patient
As Congress considers new Internet openness rules to replace the “net neutrality” regulations recently struck down by the courts, critics of U.S. broadband have called for a major overhaul of how we...
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