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Technology and the Fourth Amendment (American Enterprise Institute)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 13:06The FCC is fixing a rural broadband embarrassment, but work remains
We have had what appears to be the world’s most expensive and ineffective universal service program. Until now. The Federal Communications Commission is taking significant steps to dismantle the traditional system and replace it with something world class. In 2018, the FCC launched a new approach that uses a reverse auction to force companies to compete for subsidies. A reverse auction begins with a maximum subsidy the FCC is willing to pay for someone to expand broadband service in a rural area. Companies compete by bidding the amount down.
James Pethokoukis: Elizabeth Warren’s wrong-headed plan to break up Big Tech (American Enterprise Institute)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 03/11/2019 - 16:03Mark Jamison: 3 things the Federal Trade Commission’s new tech task force should do (American Enterprise Institute)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 03/11/2019 - 06:59Podcast: Who’s protecting the consumer in the age of Big Tech? (American Enterprise Institute)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 03/05/2019 - 13:44Net neutrality and the culture of contempt
Ultimately, the ping-pong match of network neutrality will not be resolved by political struggles over control of the Federal Communications Commission. A lasting solution can only come from bipartisan legislation, which will involve compromise. Identifying the points of compromise, places where each side is willing to give ground, is impossible if the two sides see each other as enemies worthy of contempt rather than basically good people who can reasonably disagree, even about important issues.
AEI trade and tech policy expert Claude Barfield on Huawei, 5G, and the battle for Europe (American Enterprise Institute)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 02/27/2019 - 13:58How local government gets in the way of better, faster, and cheaper broadband
Many complain about the price of cable, but few realize that key culprits can be state and local franchising authorities (LFAs), whose taxes, fees, and surcharges on top of the basic price can account for 20 percent or more of the total price. Operators need to secure a franchise agreement to build and run cable service, and that can entail acceding to all types of demands from LFAs over and above the franchise fees that operators have to pay under federal law.