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Thursday, September 30, 2010

IPI’s Communications Summit

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  As usual, it looks like my friends at IPI have a good communications conference in the works. It is next week on Wednesday, October 6, i...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Model Transparency Act Should Point the Way for Maryland

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The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a free market-oriented member organization of state legislators, recently adopted new mod...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

The Virtue of Proceeding Cautiously

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Free Press lately has taken to attacking FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski for not yet adopting net neutrality mandates to regulate Internet s...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

Government Shouldn't Design Devices in Dynamic Markets

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Last week the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) continued its push to have government require that FM receiver chips be embedded in...
Sunday, September 19, 2010

FCC Should Take Broadband Pricing Flexibility Seriously

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The FCC's Further Inquiry in its Open Internet proceeding seemingly continues its nearly year-long trek towards imposing net neutrality...
Friday, September 17, 2010

Constitution Day at the FCC

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Technorati Tags: First Amendment , FCC , Constitution Day , Free Speech , Property Rights Today we celebrate Constitution Day. On Septembe...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Maryland's Slow-Moving Sustainability Commission

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With the State of Maryland now facing some $18 billion in unfunded liabilities for state pension benefits plus another $15 billion in unfund...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Googleoply IV – And Counting

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  Scott Cleland has another in his series of papers exploring how, in his view, Google is monopolizing the consumer Internet media. As usu...

High-Level Rules Should Mean No Low-Level FCC Micromanaging

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Earlier this month, the FCC issued the latest Public Notice in its nearly year-long march toward regulating the Internet through network ne...
Thursday, September 02, 2010

Chairman Genachowski Says No To Spectrum Giveaway

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Technorati Tags: Spectrum Auctions , Spectrum Policy , M2Z , FCC FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski deserves kudos for stopping in its tracks a...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010

GAO Report Sees Wireless Competition But Mulls Regulation

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The Government Accountability Office recently released a report to Congress, the title of which contained the GAO's own recommendation: ...

"The Open Internet We Now Have"

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In an excellent editorial last week, the Washington Post argued that the FCC should not go forward with its proposal to classify broadband ...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

Google as Spymaster

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Scott Cleland, Washington’s most perceptive and persistent Google-watcher, has a good piece on his blog concerning the implications of Googl...

"Establishing a Clearly Limited Power"

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The Washington Post has an excellent editorial in today's paper on net neutrality. The Post's editorials have been consistently goo...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

“Firing Up the Base” Is Not a Reason for Net Regulation

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In an August 20 blog posting with the subtitle, "What Democrats Need to Understand," Public Knowledge's Harold Feld argues th...
Monday, August 23, 2010

High Tech Forum

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Richard Bennett, a very knowledgeable technologist and a good writer to boot, has started a new blog, High Technology Forum . Richard says...
Friday, August 20, 2010

A Right Way and a Wrong Way to Consider Mergers

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Technorati Tags: FCC , Comcast-NBCU Merger , FCC Merger Consideration Yesterday the Free State Foundation filed reply comments by Professor...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

Outside the Beltway Disconnect on Communications Policy

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A week of traveling, first to San Francisco and then to Seattle, left me with the distinct impression, with respect to communications policy...
Thursday, August 05, 2010

No Internet Regulation Without Congressional Authorization

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I just read a press report – which may or may not turn out to be true - that the talks at the FCC among the various parties trying to reach ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The FCC: "We Do Not Regulate the Internet"

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The FCC issued a news release yesterday announcing it has launched a new easy-to-use Consumer Help Center . It says the new portal "wi...
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