Op-Ed

Connecting the Challenges to Our Democracy
We don’t need to rank in importance the issues of special interest money, ludicrous redistricting, and big media. They are each part of a linked democratic challenge. There can be no real democracy without curbing big money. There can be no rea

50 years ago, I helped invent the internet. How did it go so wrong?
When I was a young scientist working on the fledgling creation that came to be known as the internet, the ethos that defined the culture we were building was characterized by words such as ethical, open, trusted, free, shared.

Investment in Broadband Infrastructure Can Create Cost Savings and Community Self-Empowerment
Building new broadband infrastructure is a big investment for any municipality.
Too uneducated to understand the importance of home Internet?
In their recent Op-Ed in the Washington Post, “Cities, not rural areas, are the real Internet deserts,” authors Blair Levin
Media, Government, Us
The media merger pot keeps boiling.

Basic Broadband for "Homes" on Tribal Lands
Sacred Wind Communications was founded on the premise of “serving the unserved,” given the technological void that envelopes so many tribal communities in New Mexico.
An Engineer’s View of the Department of Justice’s T-Mobile/Sprint/DISH Strategy
To address the loss of a mobile communications competitor that will result from the proposed T-Mobile/Sprint merger, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has proposed a solution that seeks to enable DISH Network to emerge as a fourth national facilitie

The Ability to Pay for Broadband
According to recent National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) survey data, roughly 28 million h

What Does the FCC’s Broadband Deployment Report Tell Us About the Digital Divide?
In 2012, the Federal Communications Commission released its eighth Broadband Deployment Report (the "706 report") and found that approximately 19 million Americans at the end of 2011 lacked access to high-speed internet access.

Fritz Hollings: An Appreciation
Readers of this space may recall that I worked for many years (15) for U.S.