Op-eds

Net neutrality. It’s the longest standing communications policy debate of the 21st Century, and a decade after it started, it’s still raging and far from resolved. I share…

Almost 90 percent of American households have broadband Internet. But tens of millions of Americans still are not connected to broadband. Those Americans tend to be older, poorer,…

Like a cat that won’t give up trying to get on a table, the Competitive Local Exchange Carriers are back, pushing for more special treatment for special access…

The Federal Communications Commission is now modernizing its Lifeline program, originally designed to connect low-income Americans to the telephone network. Lifeline was created in the mid-1980s and reflects…

Donald Trump makes the case as plainly as any candidate for president can. He wants to “Make America Great Again.” From Trump to Bernie Sanders, Americans are looking…

Today, few argue with the fact that broadband Internet access is a 21st-century necessity. It’s the modern passkey to healthcare, education, government services and economic opportunities. Unfortunately, some…

  The nation’s historic transition away from the copper wire toward a modern Internet Protocol-based (“IP”) communication system represents a critical technological leap forward. The United States aims…

While most political insiders are focused on fund-raising numbers, staffing announcements and what fast food candidates eat in Iowa and New Hampshire, there are real issues at stake…

Remember special access? Last year, there was a big kerfuffle over the question of whether network operators could be forced to pay for maintaining two separate networks, one…

  Legislative windows of opportunity rarely open, where the issues are few and crystallized, where Democrats and Republicans have roughly equal leverage, and where each party has the…

Virginia and Virginians have a special role in the history of the Internet and a special concern for its flourishing. You can have a “Virginia Internet [email protected]” license…

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week embarked on its own Throwback Thursday with the release of its Open Internet Order. A 20-year bipartisan philosophy of regulatory restraint…