What regulators say about the internet of things
For the past two or three days the chairmen of the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission have been clarifying their regulatory agendas for and approaches to the Internet....
View ArticleBroadband and Title II: It’s starting to feel like 1995
Federal Communications Commission chairman earlier today decided to take us back to 1995 and announced that he will issue new net neutrality rules that would bring wireline and wireless broadband...
View ArticleConsumers will call the FCC’s forbearance bluff
We are seven days away from the Federal Communications Commission’s expectedly contentious vote on its reboot of net neutrality rules. With the support of President Obama, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler...
View ArticleIf the FCC is serious about regulating the internet like a utility, then this...
The argument that access to the internet via broadband networks should be regulated like a public utility sends society the wrong message about how information moves along the internet and that it is...
View ArticleNetflix, Tumblr wanted 1995 not 1934
Internet Innovation Alliance’s Bruce Mehlman wrote an insightful blog post last Friday about the second thoughts companies like Netflix are having about the Federal Communications Commission’s decision...
View ArticleHow can the FCC help expand the broadband economy
Yesterday Michael O’Rielly provided a definition of the internet economy during remarks made before the Internet Innovation Alliance. “Here is a simple truth. The Internet thrives today on aggregating...
View ArticleThe FCC needs to change its mindset about capital and Title II
The politics of Washington is not commensurate with capital flow when it concerns broadband investment. The Federal Communications Commission’s decision to apply Title II common carrier rules has...
View ArticleThe markets don’t tell me that net neutrality rules are working
The telecommunications services sector is in the red, and has been in the red for the past year. If net neutrality was such an enabler of the virtuous innovation cycle as Federal Communications...
View ArticlePai challenges the notion of government providing a free, open internet
Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai today laid out his vision for removing broadband access from under Title II regulations imposed in 2015 by a 3-2 Democratic majority on the...
View ArticleHappy anniversary, World Wide Web. Now, let’s go back to 1988.
Happy Anniversary, World Wide Web. Now, let’s go back to 1988 … On 12 March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee publishes a proposal to link hypertext with transmission control protocol, the basis for the world wide...
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