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E-Rate Reform Should Avoid Arbitrary Speed Goals, Urge TechFreedom & ICLE
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...
TechBriefing: E-Rate Subsidies for Schools and Libraries
Print Version Summary Since 1998, the Universal Service Fund’s E-Rate program has funded telecommunications and broadband connections for schools and libraries around the United States....
E-Rate Needs Oversight and Spending Constraints, Coalition Letter Urges
TechFreedom and other groups have released a letter to Acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn, urging the FCC to adopt Commissioner Ajit Pai’s E-Rate reform proposals....
Genachowski Offered Hope, Delivered Little of the Change We Needed
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...
A Conflict of Visions over the Declaration of Internet Freedom
Today, on the eve of the 236th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence’s adoption, two “Declarations of Internet Freedom” have been issued. The first, spearheaded...
FCC Wants $25 Million for Cell Phone Subsidy Program ‘Fraught with Fraud’
TechFreedom’s Larry Downes was quoted in US News & World Report , explaining the problems with Lifeline and a proposed pilot program to extend access...