A Failure to Communicate at the FCC
2:12 PM 08/28/2012
Remember that famous line from the 1967 movie, Cool Hand Luke, starring Paul Newman, "What we've got here is failure to communicate"?
The Psychology of Abundance and the Realities of Regulatory Micromanagement
In a Silicon Valley speech last week, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski appeared to back away from his oft-stated position that broadband Internet providers should be free to experiment with various business models, including usage-based pricing options that incorporate various data caps.
The FCC should conform to rule of law norms
1:26 PM 07/20/2012
The Federal Communications Commission has been criticized often over the last half century for being a dysfunctional agency.
If communications policy were a campaign issue
4:14 PM 06/18/2012
I don't expect that communications policy reform will be a hot campaign issue during this election cycle. After all, spurring job creation and investment, growing the economy, increasing productivity, and reducing the nation's debt and deficit are likely to be the "macro" topics dominating the campaigns – and well they should be.
Repurposing the FCC
5:17 PM 03/29/2012
Pardon my French, but it's de rigueur these days to talk about "repurposing" spectrum to address what Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski calls the coming "spectrum crunch" for wireless operators.
It’s the consumer, stupid
6:32 PM 09/27/2011
To borrow a famous line from a political campaign, modified here only slightly, "It's the consumer, stupid!"
Constitution Day at the FCC
10:30 AM 09/20/2011
On September 17th we celebrated Constitution Day, commemorating the day the delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time on September 17th, 1787 to sign the document they had created.
The FCC risks over-conditioning the Comcast-NBCU merger
3:20 PM 01/03/2011
Tick-tock goes the Federal Communication Commission's merger clock counting the days the agency has spent reviewing the proposed Comcast-NBC Universal merger. The FCC says it tries to act on merger applications within 180 days. The clock is now at "Day 215" -- more than a month of working days past its self-professed goal.
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