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Telecom & Cable

Broadband Availability: The Dog that Didn’t Bark

by Jerry Ellig on March 3, 2010 • Comments

Only 4 percent of Americans say they don’t have broadband because it isn’t available where they live. But this figure didn’t make the headlines.

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?

Glen Robinson on FCC Regulatory Paradigms Feb. 18

by Jerry Brito on February 16, 2010 • Comments

Drawing on his distinguished career as a scholar and policy maker, Prof. Robinson will present three stories to illustrate salient features of FCC regulation at this free event.

Fun Facts from the FCC’s 2011 Budget Request

by Jerry Ellig on February 3, 2010 • Comments

Here are some fascinating factiods contained in the FCC’s fiscal 2011 budget request released this week.

Use your indoor voices, advertisers.

by Stefanie Haeffele-Balch on December 18, 2009 • Comments

Is it the role of government to standardize and regulate commercial volume?

Some good ideas in the FCC’s National Broadband Plan

by Jerry Ellig on December 17, 2009 • Comments

The National Broadband Plan outline discussed by FCC staff yesterday shows that good ideas supported by evidence eventually matter.

Is the FCC jumping the gun on broadband and the universal service fund?

by Jerry Ellig on December 2, 2009 • Comments

The FCC’s chairman and broadband task force have announced that they want to include universal service reform in the FCC’s national broadband plan even before the public comment period on this topic has closed. Far from jumping the gun, they are simply recognizing what everyone who follows universal service has known for years.

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.

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