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 […]

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 […]

Bridge Span 13-13: A Permanent End to Online Discrimination

For more than 15 years, four different times, the battles against the pro-tax thugs who want to loot the Internet with multiple and discriminatory taxes have continued. The latest battle is forming up as detailed in a new piece I wrote for IPI. Once again making the Internet moratorium permanent, and […]