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 […]

Bridge Span 18-3: Who Should Be Driving Our Innovation Future?

For twenty years, the federal government has been devising a plan for talking cars, promising a reduction in injuries and deaths. For twenty years, the government jealously guarded a block of spectrum to use as it pursued its ill-advised industrial policy designed to compete with private industry. For twenty years, nothing happened. But life outside […]

Bridge Span 18-1: One Vote That is One Big Step for Innovation

Tomorrow, the power of one vote could become very apparent. One vote could keep $1.56 billion in the pockets of taxpayers. One vote could unleash $275 billion in much needed infrastructure investment, creating 17,000 jobs. One vote? A new tax bill? An infrastructure plan? This is a vote by the FCC to modernize the federal […]