Former Congressman Rick Boucher discusses the need for bipartisan legislation which will give statutory permanence to open internet guarantees while at the same time classifying broadband as an information service to be lightly overseen by the FCC.
Op-eds
Congress Shouldn’t Repeat the FCC’s Title II Mistake
Former Congressman Rick Boucher argues that elevating to the status of law the FCC’s light-touch Title I regulatory treatment of broadband access service is the only dependable way to address the large rural-urban broadband deployment divide and ensure investment sufficient to meet the capacity demands of 5G technology.
Let’s Keep Answering the Calls for Rural Broadband
The need for faster rural broadband is particularly acute in rural America, where the speeds are slower, and state-of-the-art facilities are not deployed as quickly as rural Americans need.
Broadband ROI in the Dollar-Earning Digital Economy
In an economy where competition is rising and entrepreneurship is increasingly essential, high-speed internet is a critical tool that will help people supplement their income and improve their quality of life.
Time for Tech to Step Up on Diversity
America has a lot of work to do to fix our tech diversity problem. If we don’t get more serious and add more rigor, stagnation will be the result.
FCC’s fall cleaning will enable faster broadband growth
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has been busy this season doing something similar – taking an axe to unnecessary regulatory underbrush that has slowed the deployment of fast broadband around the country.
Clearing the Way for a 5G Wireless World
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.
Clear Regulatory Underbrush to Grow Next-Gen Broadband
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.
Politics is Disconnected from Coming Changes to Our Connected World
Every new generation of wireless communications has been marked by faster speeds. Next-generation 5G networks, however, will have to do much more, much faster and with better quality.
Redressing the Privacy Balance for Internet Consumers
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.
Putting the ‘artificial’ in AI (Reality Check)
When are 20 million comments not really 20 million comments? When they are form letters, many apparently generated from “temporary” and “disposable” domains.
The FCC Gets Real on Wireless Competition
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.