Boucher on the Air - Internet Innovation Alliance

February 28, 2012

If you live in Washington, DC, you catch our own Rick Boucher on News Channel 8’s Capital Insider tonight at 8 pm EST (repeat at 11 pm EST).

Congress can narrow the healthcare gap by closing the digital divide

Op-eds

As promising as telemedicine is for rural medicine, obtaining a high-speed internet connection for telehealth is an impossibility for tens of millions of rural residents who are on the wrong side of a seemingly intractable digital divide.

June 18, 2020

Light at the End of the Net Neutrality Tunnel

Op-eds

New year, same net neutrality saga—but there may be light at the end of the tunnel.

February 5, 2020

Clearing the Way for a 5G Wireless World

Op-eds

The nation stands on the cusp of a massive mobile internet revolution. Far from hyperbole, the coming transition to fifth-generation (5G) wireless will bring mobile data speeds up to 100 times faster than today’s 4G technology.

November 15, 2017

Clear Regulatory Underbrush to Grow Next-Gen Broadband

Op-eds

Although copper wires have been a feature of the telephone system since Alexander Graham Bell first called Watson, it’s time for them to go away. Fiber is simply faster and a better, more flexible technology.

November 8, 2017

Redressing the Privacy Balance for Internet Consumers

Op-eds

In a world of converging technology, consumers should have confidence in the fact that our nation’s broadband privacy rules are uniform and consistently applied across the internet.

October 2, 2017

The Numbers Don’t Lie

For the first time in eight years, the FCC’s Annual Mobile Wireless Competition Report has arrived with a clear answer to the question, Is the wireless market competitive?

September 29, 2017

The FCC Gets Real on Wireless Competition

Op-eds

It’s good for consumers that there is effective wireless market competition. And it’s good for the country that the FCC’s report is grounded in sound economic analysis.

September 21, 2017

Rick Boucher Interviewed by Scientific American

Our own Honorary Chairman recently talked to Scientific American about how Washington gridlock is delaying high-speed broadband in rural parts of the country.

August 22, 2017

Don’t Forget Rural America in Open Internet Debate

Op-eds

One simply cannot expect carriers to invest tens of billions of dollars in broadband deployments when they don’t know which regulatory aspects of Title II are going to be implemented by the FCC from time to time.

August 22, 2017

The Path Forward For Net Neutrality

Our Honorary Chairman Rick Boucher and Co-Chairman Jamal Simmons offer their thoughts on how the net neutrality debate can finally be put to rest.

May 19, 2017

Net Neutrality: Ending the Game of Political Soccer

Op-eds

Without Congressional intervention, net neutrality policy will continue in an endless back-and-forth. Every party change at the White House will produce an FCC that shifts net neutrality rules to its favored terms.

May 17, 2017

When the Perfect Becomes the Enemy of the Good

Op-eds

Just as in 1974, when a window existed for bipartisan approval of a sweeping healthcare reform, today’s Congress has an equally promising opportunity to pass legislation putting the net neutrality debate to rest.

April 26, 2017

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