Wall Street Journal columnist Gordon Crovitz writes that In Japan, wireless technology works so well that teenagers draft novels on their cellphones. People in Hong Kong take it for granted that they can check their BlackBerrys from underground in the city’s subway cars. Even in France, consum...

The Senate version of the economic stimulus package (H.R. 1) winding its way through Congress would provide $9 billion in direct public subsidy for broadband network deployment subject to a “non-discrimination” requirement which, like the “open access” requirement in the Hous...

Regarding Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig’s proposal to abolish the Federal Communications Commission: Adam covered the main points here and I’d like to add a couple minor points. The idea of abolishing the FCC used to be a right-wing fantasy. But now Silicon Valley-booster Lessig is...

Naturally, now that government plans to intervene in the economy with a massive stimulus package, everyone wants their “fair” share. Robert D. Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, is arguing for digitized health records, a smart power grid and fa...

Outgoing Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is pushing for action in December on a plan to offer free, pornography-free wireless Internet service to all Americans, despite objections from the wireless industry and some consumer groups. according to the Wall Street Journal. I won...

The conventional Beltway wisdom would be that net neutrality legislation should have a real chance now with the election of President-Elect Barack Obama and strengthened Democratic majorities in the Senate and House. But there are two recent developments which make the case for net neutrality regula...

Should antitrust enforcers be concerned about entry barriers in the search ad market? Some believe the market exhibits “network effects,� according to the New York Times. Although traditionally applied to Industrial Age industries with high fixed costs like railroads and telephone exchanges, any...

The Federal Communications Commission conducted a public hearing this week on network management before a group of law students – as opposed to, say, engineering students who study network management – where lead witness Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) announced [T]he Internet is as much mine and yours as...

The FCC voted today to allow a single entity to own a newspaper as well as a broadcast TV or radio station in the same market under certain conditions, and some people seem truly alarmed. Democratic FCC commissioner Jonathan Adelstein worried that the FCC “has never attempted such a brazen act of ...