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Net Neutrality

Rob Frieden on internet applications, content providers, and net neutrality

by Jerry Brito on March 1, 2010 • Comments

Rob Frieden, Pioneers Chair and Professor of Telecommunication and Law at Penn State University, discusses internet applications, content providers, and net neutrality. The discussion also turns to the history of telecom regulation, the Comcast/BitTorrent controversy, and the limits of the FCC’s regulatory authority.

Broadband as a Public Utility

by Jerry Ellig on February 23, 2010 • Comments

In US history, imposing public utility regulation on an oligopoly has usually created either cartels or shortages. Why would public utility regulation of broadband be any different?

Railroading Broadband?

by Jerry Ellig on February 18, 2010 • Comments

Can broadband policymakers learn from more than 100 years of American experience with railroad regulation?

Publicly traded but closely held

by Jerry Brito on January 18, 2010 • Comments

Google’s recent China move is not about protecting its business interests, in fact quite the opposite. It possible because the founders have majority control of the company.

DC Circuit not buying FCC’s claimed authority

by Jerry Brito on January 11, 2010 • Comments

At oral argument, the D.C. Circuit panel hearing the FCC v. Comcast case was skeptical of the FCC’s authority to regulate the internet as they have.

Regulatory Whack-a-Mole

by Jerry Ellig on November 11, 2009 • Comments

If the terms of a transaction aren’t comprehensively regulated, watch for unintended consequences when the government just regulates some of the terms.

Did the White House review net neutrality regulations?

by Jerry Ellig on November 4, 2009 • Comments

None of the usual watchdogs are barking about the FCC letting the White House comment on its net neutrality regulations before they were proposed.

Regulatory “buckets” are back

by Jerry Brito on October 23, 2009 • Comments

In its proposed net neutrality rules, the FCC seeks to create a new regulatory classification for “managed services,” but such classification rarely works.