Bridge Span 15-10: Removing Barriers to Broadband Deployment

One of the more important hearings for the future of broadband took place last week in the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee. The Committee gathered to discuss “Breaking Down Barriers to Broadband Infrastructure Deployment.”

With what has seemed like the overnight deployment of broadband Internet access to seemingly every corner of the U.S. […]

November 5th, 2015 | Category: Cable, Communications policy, Wireless | Comments are closed

Bridge Span 14-15: Empower the People or Empower Bureaucrats? – Two Internet Votes

Pundits largely agree that those who cast ballots last week had more or less one idea in mind – Washington is broken and must be fixed. So imagine the surprise that online customers will receive when Senators Reid and Durbin lead the just voted out Senate to massively expand government power in their last few […]

November 17th, 2014 | Category: Cable, Communications policy, Tax, Technology, Wireless | Comments are closed

Bridge Span 14-14: Municipalities GON Wild!

Recently two towns, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the City of Wilson, North Carolina, have petitioned the federal government, via the FCC, complaining that state laws are constraining them from the municipal provision of broadband services, that is, from building a government owned network (GON). That is, these municipalities want to expend resources to build and operate […]

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