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 14-10: 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

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 […]

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