Comments to the FCC re: Government Owned Networks

Tom Wheeler Chairman Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, SW Washington, DC 20554

RE: MB Docket No. 14-115

Dear Chairman Wheeler,

These comments are in response to the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the City of Wilson, North Carolina asking that the Commission act pursuant to section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of […]

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

Bridge Span 14-11: Crony Capitalism or Just Big Government Growing Government?

If there was any one issue that candidate Barack Obama embraced and promised to pursue if he became president it was the promise of an open and transparent government. The country expressed its support of this promise by a wide margin. But a recent Wall Street Journal article, “FCC Encourages Media Companies to Provide Confidential […]

September 4th, 2014 | Category: Communications policy | Comments are closed

Bridge Span 14-10: A Bright Day for the Future of the Internet?

This morning the US House of Representatives will debate H.R. 3086, the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act. The Act would permanently protect consumers from the increased costs in accessing and using the Internet by extending the moratorium on Internet access taxes, and would also prevent the multiple and discriminatory taxation of Internet sales.

The House […]

July 15th, 2014 | Category: Cable, Communications policy, Tax, Technology, Wireless | Comments are closed
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