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Broadband Cost and Speed: It’s complicated

October 28, 2013

The discussion at Reddit over the new New America Foundation broadband cost study is interesting. A great deal of the discussion seems to be about...


Let’s Not Make Fiber the Concorde of the Internet, We Tell the FCC

September 30, 2013

The Fiber to the Home Council recently asked the Federal Communications Commission to create a $150 million/year program to subsidize construction of 1 Gbps fiber...


Listen: TechFreedom Debates Broadband Deployment with Susan Crawford

September 30, 2013

Two of TechFreedom’s top experts recently appeared on WCPN’s The Sound of Ideas to discuss broadband deployment with law professor Susan Crawford (who we’ve disagreed with in the...


More fuzzy thinking about the magical power of broadband

September 25, 2013

We’re all in favor of faster broadband and of removing regulatory barriers at the Federal, state and local level that make it difficult for new...


Making Broadband Deployment Easier

September 20, 2013

The White House recently announced positive steps to speed up broadband deployment “by reducing barriers for companies to install broadband infrastructure on Federal properties and roads.”...


Don’t count on government to build out broadband

September 18, 2013

$200 billion  invested in cable infrastructure since 1996 $23 billion  invested by Verizon in its FiOS fiber network since 2004 $14 billion  invested by AT&T...