Morning Consult
A new survey shows just how fast the market for broadband is changing. Consumers no longer see mobile and fixed internet access alternatives as fundamentally different but use different types of broadband access in similar ways. In other words, mobile and fixed broadband are now functional substitutes.
Clarion Ledger
The door is open once again to large-scale broadband investment, but some in Congress are now urging a return of the heavy-handed regulatory treatment imposed on broadband in 2015. That would be a major mistake for the country at large and particularly punishing for broadband investment in our rural regions.
Light Reading
Last year, the FCC reformed how it regulates the business data services market to better reflect the real competition that now exists in that sector — and their decision was correct.
Multichannel News
IIA Co-Chairwoman Kim Keenan discusses why rolling back net-neutrality rules is the right step forward.
The Washington Examiner
IIA Co-Chairman Bruce Mehlman discusses his support for the US Telecom Association's petition requesting forbearance from certain regulations in the 1996 Telecom Act, now that competition is thriving in those areas.
Capitol Weekly
Former Congressman Rick Boucher discusses the need for everyone in the internet system to rally around adopting in a statute the core principles of an open internet and strong, uniform privacy protections that apply equally to everyone at every point in the internet continuum.
Investor's Business Daily
IIA Co-Chairman Bruce Mehlman argues that policymakers should encourage innovation by letting network managers decide how to prioritize the packets that need priority.
The Mercury News
Former Congressman Rick Boucher argues that the practical effect of the privacy rules proposed by former FCC Chair Tom Wheeler would do little to protect Americans on basic privacy issues and be harmful to the advertising business model of internet edge providers.
Bloomberg BNA
Consumers are largely unaware of what online social platforms do with their personal information. IIA Co-Chairwoman Kim Keenan calls on Congress to enact legislation protecting consumers from unauthorized data harvesting.
theGrio
IIA Co-Chairwoman Kim Keenan discusses why we should demand that our representatives, regardless of their allegiance to any party, step up and protect our internet privacy regardless of the platform.