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The Future of Video? Beggar Thy Competitor

June 29, 2012, 10:48am

Steven Titch

The House heard testimony this week from a cable companies, satellite companies, wireless companies, and providers of “over-the-top” programming on demand via the Internet Protocol (IPTV), including Netflix.

The Battle Over Spectrum Intensifies

January 31, 2012, 11:56am

Steven Titch

The bureaucrats at the Federal Communications Commission are set to make their play at picking wireless spectrum winners and losers.

Save the Net

Abolish the FCC

December 22, 2011

David Harsanyi

Because there exists no area of human activity that couldn't benefit from more paternalistic attention ... Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Federal Communications Commission to your Web browser.

Rethinking Telecom Regulation from the Ground Up

November 10, 2011, 12:59pm

Steven Titch

Has the digital economy reached a point where all ex ante regulations should be discarded?

Three top free-market policy experts think so. The need for a uniform ex post approach to overseeing the Internet sector as a whole was the rough consensus of yesterday's panel, A New Framework the FCC, sponsored in Washington by The Mercatus Center of George Mason University.

The Reluctant Regulator

What does FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Really Think About Net Neutrality?

March 1, 2011

Steven Titch

Congress has already begun to engage the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over its network neutrality policy. The House Energy and Commerce Commission is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a resolution opposing the new rules. “The last thing we need, in my view, is the FCC serving as Internet traffic controller,” said House Speaker John Boehner in a speech on Sunday.

 

The Year 2010 in IT Outsourcing, Network Neutrality, and Federal Broadband

Telecommunications Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2010

February 25, 2011

Steven Titch, Leonard Gilroy

This section of Reason Foundation's Annual Privatization Report 2010 provides an overview of hot topics in technology outsourcing and telecommunications policy. Topics include:

• IT outsourcing in state governments,
• Cloud computing and the future of IT outsourcing,
• the national Network Neutrality debate, and
• an analysis of the FCC's new National Broadband Plan.

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