Daniel Lyons on Telecom Subsidy Program
ICLE Academic Affiliate Daniel Lyons was quoted in a ProPublica article concerning the excesses of a special government subsidy program that Congress created to bring fast, affordable phone and internet service to hard-to-reach places:
Daniel Lyons, a former attorney whose law firm represented Verizon and AT&T and who now teaches internet law at Boston College Law School, said the subsidy program is broken. The fundamental problem: No one has ever rigorously tested whether it works.
“It’s not proven how successful it is,” said Lyons, who specializes in telecommunications and internet law, “because the FCC is not very good at auditing its program.”
Read the full piece here.