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.
Op-eds
Putting First Things First: Prioritizing Traffic On The Internet
IIA Co-Chairman Bruce Mehlman argues that policymakers should encourage innovation by letting network managers decide how to prioritize the packets that need priority.
U.S. Should Lead, Not Follow Europe, on Privacy
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.
Zuckerberg’s Testimony Is a Test: Congress Needs to Act to Protect Privacy
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.
Why Congress Must Decide on the Fate of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, and the Personal Data of Millions of Black Americans
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.
5G: Coming to a Community Near You (With the Right Policy in Place)
Broadband is at the heart of 21st-century life, and it will be the underpinning of our economy. The need to deploy the next generation of high-speed mobile broadband service (5G) around the country is nothing less than urgent.
Network Neutrality Needs Protection by Statute
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.
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.