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Telecom & Cable

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!

Broadband Baselines

by Jerry Ellig on April 1, 2010 • View Comments

We won’t know the actual effects of policies intended to promote broadband deployment unless we first understand how the market would have evolved without any policy changes.

Cutting the “Broadband Funding Gap” Down to Size

by Jerry Ellig on March 17, 2010 • View Comments

The FCC has the ability to solve the $24 billion “broadband funding gap” all by itself, without a dime of new money from taxpayers, broadband subscribers, or telephone subscribers.

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.

Thomas Hazlett on telecommunications policy and economics

by Jerry Brito on March 15, 2010 • View Comments

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Thomas Hazlett, Professor of Law & Economics and Director of the Information Economy Project at George Mason University School of Law, discusses telecommunications policy and economics. The discussion also turns to the history of spectrum regulation, ongoing inefficiencies in the current system, and suggestions for possible improvements.

Broadband Availability: The Dog that Didn’t Bark

by Jerry Ellig on March 3, 2010 • View 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 • 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?

Glen Robinson on FCC Regulatory Paradigms Feb. 18

by Jerry Brito on February 16, 2010 • View 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.