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FCC Has No Basis for Setting Arbitrary E-Rate Broadband Speed Goals

November 8, 2013

Today, TechFreedom and the International Center for Law & Economics filed Reply Comments on the Federal Communications Commission’s proposal to modernize the E-Rate Program, created...


New FCC Chairman Should Focus on Bipartisan Goals of National Broadband Plan

October 30, 2013

Last night, the Senate confirmed Tom Wheeler as FCC Chairman and Mike O’Rielly as FCC Commissioner, thus bringing the FCC to full strength. The following...


E-Rate Reform Should Avoid Arbitrary Speed Goals, Urge TechFreedom & ICLE

September 18, 2013

TechFreedom and the International Center for Law & Economics recently filed comments on modernizing the federal E-Rate Program, which helps fund telecommunications services for schools...


Another Democrat on the “False Promise of Municipal Broadband”

August 21, 2013

For the most part, municipally-built broadband networks have the economic chips stacked against them and, where tried, have saddled local taxpayers with a mountain of...


Genachowski Offered Hope, Delivered Little of the Change We Needed

March 22, 2013

Today, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced his intention to resign from the Federal Communications Commission, two days after Republican Commissioner Robert McDowell. The following statement...


How the FCC Can Lead the Way to Internet Everywhere by Enabling the IP Transition

February 26, 2013

AT&T’s petition presents the FCC with a stark choice:  Bootstrap the regulations of a dying 20th century technology platform onto the networks of the future,...