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New FCC Chairman Should Focus on Bipartisan Goals of National Broadband Plan
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...
Geoffrey Manne in RedState: How Free is the Wireless Spectrum Market?
With spectrum auctions set to begin early next year, TF’s Geoffrey Manne has a guest article in RedState examining the debate over how and whether...
Is the FCC stalling on the IP Transition to coerce concessions from telcos?
The companies that own the old copper telephone networks are chomping at the bit to transition to Internet Protocol so they can carry not only...
Code Words in Tech Policy & the Politicians Who Use Them
Senator Rockefeller has detected code words from Republican FCC nominee Michael O’Rielly. When O’Rielly reiterated that he advocated a “flexible” and a “light hand” on regulation, Rockefeller...
Let’s Not Make Fiber the Concorde of the Internet, We Tell the FCC
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...
TechShutdown: How essential are the FCC & FTC, anyway?
With the government shutdown looming, it’s time to play DC’s new favorite game: Who’s an “essential” government employee? When it comes to tech, the two...