Faulhaber and Farber answer the FCC’s Notice of Inquiry into fostering innovation and investment. They argue that these are two sides of the same coin, and enter into an analysis of three areas of the industries previous performance

Skype has just announced that they will start supporting 720P HD video conferencing at 1280×720 resolution in the newest Skype 4.2 beta software, which is a significant upgrade from the current 640×480 resolution.  This will of course require compatible cameras and within the next two months, consumers will soon be able to purchase Skype certified [...]

Content creators want to protect the model that gives them the most certainty. To argue that they would simply make their content available through a model that didn’t do that is simply laughable. Trying to force them to do so by foolishly invoking the heavy hand of government in business negotiations.

The FCC has posted it’s workshop “Review and Discussion of Broadband Deployment Research” along with the archived video.  Richard Bennett posted a good summary of the workshop.  The workshop debated the Berkman Broadband study and the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information CITI broadband report. Harold Feld and Thomas Hazlett replied to Yochai Benkler who led the [...]