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Wireless & Spectrum

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.

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.

Regulatory Whack-A-Mole, Part II

by Jerry Ellig on January 21, 2010 • Comments

Recent contorversies over early termination fees for wireless devices show that policymakers still don’t understand the limits of what they can accomplish.

Publicly traded but closely held

by Jerry Brito on January 18, 2010 • 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.

Thin Tablets, 3DTV, and Bureaucrats

by Gabriel Okolski on January 12, 2010 • Comments

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Government’s participation at the Consumer Electronics Show brought to light industry concerns over state involvement in the tech sector, and policymakers would be wise to pay attention.

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.

Coase’s “The Federal Communications Commission” at 50

by Cord Blomquist on October 29, 2009 • Comments

This morning, The Mercatus Center at George Mason University and the Progress and Freedom Foundation hosted “Ronald Coase’s The Federal Communications Commission at 50,” featuring FCC Commissioner Robert M. McDowell, GMU Prof. Tom Hazlett, Dr. Jeffrey Eisenach of Empiris LLC and GMU, and Dr. Evan Kwerel of the FCC and John Williams formerly of the [...]

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