The market for “special access” data services is getting more competitive all the time. And now there is additional fresh economic evidence of this. For those who aren’t…
OTT service’s network management revelations are an ‘exercise in hypocrisy’ Netflix’s stunning admission that, for five years, it reduced the video speeds of customers of Verizon Wireless and…
In their never-ending quest for continued and even expanded “special access” price regulation, competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) for years have suggested that no real competition exists in…
Challenged telecommunications giant Sprint (S) is talking out of both sides of its mouth—and it seems to be a smart strategy that’s paying off. Every year American employers…
The federal Lifeline program needs to be reformed to include high-speed Internet service for Americans with the lowest incomes. by Larry Irving and Jamal Simmons People aim cellphones…
by Rick Boucher & Larry Irving Monday is the 20th anniversary of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the last rewrite of the nation’s communications laws that set the…
“Regulatory humility.” To many, if not most, Americans, the phrase sounds like an oxymoron. Yet, for the last two decades, this has been the almost uniquely American approach…
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulators, purportedly eager to promote competition, keep stifling the investment needed to advance it meaningfully. Case in point, the Commission recently opened a tariff…
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…
