Free Press wants the FCC to mandate a dumb Internet because they claim that network prioritization technology makes networks unfair and inefficient. But the engineering shows that prioritized networks are actually more fair and more efficient.

If the FCC interprets the national broadband plan it sent to Congress today as an invitation to impose heavy burdens on the Internet, it will be against the better judgment of Commissioners Robert McDowell and Meredith Attwell Baker. They reminded the commission that the Internet has reshaped American business and society precisely because it has been allowed to thrive without interference from the government.

When government gives away super valuable 700 MHz mobile spectrum, it gets wasted on wireless backhaul which could have used 5 GHz. While 700 MHz might save a little money on backhaul costs, it saves a lot more money on access and mobile networks. Commercial operators that paid billions of dollars for 700 MHz spectrum would never waste valuable spectrum like this.

If the FCC doesn’t want the Internet to become a vast wasteland for “Gilligan’s Island” reruns, it had better start working with broadband providers now to reserve bandwidth for the transformative applications of the future. So said Internet entrepreneur Mark Cuban. He wants the Internet to be “a platform for amazing” and said that won’t happen if all of the video content now on TV is hogging Internet bandwidth.

The FCC today paved the way for Tuesday’s release of a national broadband plan by publicizing the executive summary for the plan. The good news is that aggressive regulatory burdens do not appear to be in the offing; the bad news is that the FCC did not rule out future intervention.

Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law University of Colorado School of Law Innovations In The Internet’s Architecture That Challenge The Status Quo Christopher S. Yoo 2010 Yoo’s latest article discusses how the Internet has changed and developed in ways that are currently being ignored by policymakers and proponents of network neutrality. He believes these [...]

The FCC is set to deliver its national broadband plan to Congress on Wednesday, and YouTube will be interviewing Chairman Julius Genachowski about the plan and other topics a day before its release. Digital Society submitted a question on intellectual property enforcement in the digital economy.

William Kovacic’s latest paper discusses the role of the Federal Trade Commission and the development of Internet policy. He portrays the FTC as an organization with a long role and storied role in directing Internet development, with an emphasis on consumer protection, among other areas.

Often the discussion surrounding Internet usage caps also revolves around some sort of transparency. Generally speaking, no matter what ones stance on usage caps is, all can agree that being transparent about monthly bandwidth use should be apart of a subscribers user account with their ISP. Inlate 2009 Comcast answered this call by launching their Usage Meter service in Portland, Oregon.

Advocates of Internet regulation dream of a government-run utopia, but consumers have seen the yellow brick road on the other side of telecommunications law and are flocking to it. Dorothy wanted to go home after her fantastical journey through the “Wizard of Oz.” Information-age consumers have no interest in traveling back in time to the realm of telecom stagnation.