Friday, August 03, 2018

Shareholders Approve Disney to Buy Fox Assets

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Last week, Walt Disney Co. and 21 st Century Fox Inc. shareholders approved the $71.3 billion deal for Disney to acquire Fox's enterta...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

House Passed the ACCESS BROADBAND Act

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Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed the Advancing Critical Connectivity Expands Service, Small Business Resources, Opportuniti...
Monday, July 23, 2018

FCC Transparency Act Would Mandate Releasing Draft Items Before Vote

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Last week, Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) reintroduced the FCC Transparency Act , H.R. 6422, which would mandate that the Commission ...
Friday, July 20, 2018

Telehealth, Lifeline, and Resellers

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At its upcoming August meeting, the FCC will vote on issuing a Notice of Inquiry seeking, as Commissioner Brendan Carr put it in a  July 11...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Comcast Drops Bid for Fox Assets

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Today, Comcast announced that it is dropping its $65 billion bid for Twenty-First Century Fox assets. Instead, Comcast will focus on its $3...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Charter's New Wireless Service "Spectrum Mobile" Increases Competition

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Last month, Charter Communications launched a new mobile wireless broadband service, Spectrum Mobile. Spectrum Mobile’s unlimited data pl...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Congress Should Disregard Internet Bill for Regulation Overkill

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Rep. Mike Coffman has just introduced the "21st Century Internet Act" – a  bill  that would put the Internet under harmful heav...
Thursday, July 12, 2018

New FCC Rules Do Not Force Consumers to Pay $225 to File a Formal Complaint

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Today, the FCC voted to streamline rules for its formal complaint process. Specifically, the rules create a uniform deadline of 30 days fo...

The Bidding for the Fox Assets: Where Things Stand

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Comcast and Disney for months have been aggressively seeking to buy up certain Fox assets. The Disney bid has been accepted by Fox manageme...
Monday, July 09, 2018

STREAMLINE 5G Processes to Match the Speed of Business

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STREAMLINE 5G Processes to Match the Speed of Business by Gregory J. Vogt Global preparations are underway to ensure that 5G wirele...
Tuesday, July 03, 2018

Commissioner O’Rielly’s Speech on FCC Process Reform at FSF’s Seminar

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In a speech before the Free State Foundation’s June 28, 2018 Policy Seminar , FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly spoke about the FCC’s r...
Friday, June 29, 2018

Portland, Oregon Considering Municipal Broadband, Despite Existing Competition

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Earlier this month, Multnomah County, Oregon, where Portland is located, announced that it will adopt a feasibility study to evaluate the...
Thursday, June 21, 2018

New Wireline Order Will Advance Fiber and 5G Deployment

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On June 7, 2018, the FCC adopted a Second Report and Order that will accelerate the transition from legacy networks and services to next-...

Commissioner O’Rielly: Narrow Market Definition No Longer Appropriate for Media Marketplace

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In a speech on July 20 , Commissioner Michael O’Rielly of the Federal Communications Commission described how the FCC has been using “ an ...
Friday, June 15, 2018

House Subcommittee Approves the Smart IoT Act

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This week, the House Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee approved the State of Modern Application, Research, and Trends...
Thursday, June 14, 2018

Randolph May and Theodore Bolema React to Comcast Announcement Regarding Fox Acquisition

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This week, Free State Foundation President Randolph May and Senior Fellow Theodore Bolema issued statements in response to Comcast's ann...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Time for NTIA and FCC to Act on Ligado's Application for Advanced IoT Network

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NTIA and the FCC have an opportunity to jump-start a new wave of broadband innovation that will boost economic productivity and consumer we...
Friday, June 08, 2018

Maryland Should Lower Tax Rates to Attract More Businesses

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On May 31, 2018, the Tax Foundation published a study by Katherine Loughead titled “ State and Local Individual Income Tax Collections Per...