April 27, 2020

Comments in the Matter of Use of the 5.850 – 5.925 GHz Band

Ian Adams

On behalf of the International Center for Law & Economics, I offer the following reply comments in support of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to…

Telecommunications

May 18, 2017

The Internet Conduct Rule Must Die

Allen Gibby

It’s fitting that FCC Chairman Ajit Pai recently compared his predecessor’s jettisoning of the FCC’s light touch framework for Internet access regulation without hard evidence to the Oklahoma City Thunder’s…

Telecommunications

March 25, 2016

Netflix and net neutrality: Hypocritically screwing over Internet users since 2015!

Geoffrey A. Manne

Netflix’s latest net neutrality hypocrisy (yes, there have been others. See here and here, for example) involves its long-term, undisclosed throttling of its video traffic on AT&T’s and Verizon’s wireless networks, while it…

Telecommunications

December 10, 2014

The companies that actually manufacture networks and devices oppose Title II, which may be all you need to know

Geoffrey A. Manne

It’s easy to look at the net neutrality debate and assume that everyone is acting in their self-interest and against consumer welfare. Thus, many on the left denounce all opposition…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

January 14, 2014

Court strikes down Net neutrality rules but grants FCC sweeping new power over Internet

Geoffrey A. Manne

Today the D.C. Circuit struck down most of the FCC’s 2010 Open Internet Order, rejecting rules that required broadband providers to carry all traffic for edge providers (“anti-blocking”) and prevented providers from…

Telecommunications

January 1, 2014

Comments, Communications Act Rewrite, House Energy & Commerce Committee

Geoffrey A. Manne & Ben Sperry & Berin Szoka & Tom Struble

"Twenty years ago, Democrats and Republicans agreed on the need to refocus communications competition policy on promoting competition in an era of convergence, focusing on effects rather than formalism..."

Telecommunications

December 13, 2013

A New Kingsbury Commitment: Universal Service through Competition?

Ben Sperry

For those in the DC area interested in telecom regulation, there is another great event opportunity coming up next week. Join TechFreedom on Thursday, December 19, the 100th anniversary of the Kingsbury…

Telecommunications

November 13, 2013

Spectrum Policy for the Wired Network, Aspen Institute Roundtable

Geoffrey A. Manne

Increasingly, the wired and wireless networks are converging in architecture and function. For example, the further fiber moves towards the customer, the more wireless capabilities are available in cellular networks.

Telecommunications

October 18, 2013

Wireless Spectrum: Free Market or Rigged Market?

Geoffrey A. Manne

The debates over mobile spectrum aggregation and the auction rules for the FCC’s upcoming incentive auction — like all regulatory rent-seeking — can be farcical. One aspect of the debate…

Telecommunications