Bridge Span 18-10: Streamlining the Future: Reducing Resistance to Broadband Everywhere

Next week, the Senate Commerce Committee is scheduled to move forward on the ‘Streamlining The Rapid Evolution And Modernization of Leading-edge Infrastructure Necessary to Enhance Small Cell Deployment Act’’ or the ‘‘STREAMLINE Small Cell Deployment Act.” The goal of the legislation is to modernize the process for and speed the deployment of small antennas or […]

July 21st, 2018 | Category: Communications policy, Wireless | Comments are closed

Bridge Span 18-9: They Said It Best When They Said Nothing at All

For years, perhaps decades, or perhaps forever, Washington D.C. has been the butt of jokes with punchlines about how the political class talks and talks and talks while little gets solved. But sometimes Congress speaks by staying quiet. Sometimes doing nothing really is an actively made decision. Multiple U.S. Supreme Court justices seem to understand […]

June 14th, 2018 | Category: Uncategorized | Comments are closed

Bridge Span 18-8: Behold! The Free Market Works

Yesterday Comcast announced that it is in the market for buying most of the media assets of Twenty-First Century Fox for cash, preparing a bid to best Disney which already made an offer. The media will call this a “bidding war,” but the truth behind the hyperbole is that this is the free market operating […]

May 24th, 2018 | Category: Cable, Communications policy | Comments are closed
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