Bridge Span 13-11: Essentially, A Hand Up

I have heard several people over the years suggest some pretty crazy policy ideas related to the adoption of broadband, including one who suggested that if people will not adopt broadband in their house voluntarily that they might have to be forced to do so. Yikes!

Bridge Span 13-10: Consumers Kept in the Dark About Going Dark in LA and NYC

Mark Twain once quipped, “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” If Twain is right then advertising, and now social media, has allowed us an unprecedented look into the world of success, the world of fact-free confidence. The recent very public […]

Bridge Span 13-7: Cable – The New Software

Some have long believed that the cable industry was merely a series of “dumb pipes” or “tubes” that could only haul packets of data to and fro around the world. They see only a world where broadband delivery is just a utility, ultimately destined for regulatory strangulation. They have even […]