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Net Neutrality

Net Neutrality

Shortcuts That Don’t Save Time

by Jerry Ellig on April 29, 2010 View Comments

We’d get better and quicker decisions from the FCC if it followed the same regulatory procedures as the FTC.

Broadband and Title II Regulation: An Economic Primer

by Jerry Ellig on April 16, 2010 View Comments

Why many regulatory economists have such a strong visceral reaction against regulating broadband under Title II of the Communications Act.

The international dimension of net neutrality

by Massimiliano Trovato on April 12, 2010 View Comments

The DC court ruling on Comcast vs. the FCC didn’t settle the net neutrality debate once and for all. In fact, the war over internet regulation is just at the beginning.

What’s the Problem? A Lesson from the Net Neutrality Debate

by Jerry Ellig on April 9, 2010 View Comments

If you don’t get the problem right, you won’t get the solution right!

FCC Releases Executive Summary of Broadband Plan

by Jerry Ellig on March 15, 2010 View Comments

Here are a few things to look out for when the FCC releases its National Broadband Plan tomorrow.

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

by Jerry Brito on March 1, 2010 View Comments

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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 View 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 View 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 View Comments

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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 View 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.