Bridge Span 14-2: A Broadband System Upgrade

As has been widely reported today, Comcast has proposed a $45.2 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable Inc., a merger of the number one and number four video service providers (DirecTV and Dish are numbers two and three). The consumer benefits are abundant, which the business proposal will demonstrate even […]

February 13th, 2014 | Category: Cable, Communications policy, Technology | Comments are closed

Bridge Span 14-1: The FCC Thrown Into the Regulatory Briar Patch

Exactly three weeks ago, the D.C. Circuit court ruled in Verizon v. FCC that the FCC’s net neutrality order regulating the operations of broadband companies, hence the Internet itself, was illegal. All the judges agreed that the FCC’s order that a telecommunications provider must treat all data in the same […]

February 3rd, 2014 | Category: Cable, Communications policy, Technology, Uncategorized, Wireless | Comments are closed

Bridge Span 13-17 The DMCA for Today and Tomorrow

Last week the USPTO and NTIA held a public meeting to discuss five copyright issues raised in the recent green paper titled “Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy” released by the Commerce Department’s Internet Policy Task Force. The Green Paper, and the meeting, divides the discussion into five separate areas. One […]

December 18th, 2013 | Category: Communications policy, Intellectual property, Technology | Comments are closed
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