Broadcast TV occupies 294 MHz of spectrum and much of that is wasted on inefficient radio architectures and video compression technologies. If we are serious about a national broadband plan, we should squeeze broadcast television down to 40 MHz and save 254 MHz of spectrum but still be able to broadcast 32 HD and 60 standard channels.

Richard Bennett recently posted a blog on a recent skirmish occurring over a North Carolina bill, H129, on municipal broadband projects. The growing outcry has been that the bill is attempting to disallow municipal broadband and that the trend could continue into other states…

Now that AT&T is following the footsteps of Comcast by instituting a 250 GB per month usage cap on their broadband service (150 GB for slower DSL customers), much of the outcry from the blogosphere aren’t justified by the facts.  These caps are large enough that they are irrelevant to 98% of the subscribers, and [...]

An old adage of marketing is that people do not buy drills – they buy holes. Cliché it may be, but the statement embodies real wisdom, in that businesses that focus on value as the customer sees it are more likely to prosper than those that do not. The cliché leads to other thoughts, such [...]

During yesterdays House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing on H.J. Resolution 37, Disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to regulating the Internet and broadband industry practices, Mr. Thomas DeReggi, owner of a small wireless ISP in Maryland, DC, and Virginia gave testimony providing 11 convincing reasons why the government should not be pursuing overreaching regulation for the Internet.

Glassman hosts Downes and Manne who discuss the Internet over the next decade. Both have contributed to the book The Next Digital Decade, published by Tech Freedom. A major point of conversation is whether or not the Internet needs government regulation and oversight, or should the Internet continue to evolve on its own.

Ookla, the company behind the popular speedtest.net broadband performance testing service, has released a new edition of the service this week with a few new features.  The already useful service is now even more useful with user accounts that allow users to save and share their test history data which is extremely useful for performance [...]

The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee is currently streaming live video of the hearing on H.J. Resolution 37, “Disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission.”

Conversations With America: A Discussion on the State Department’s Internet Freedom Strategy DipNote Bloggers Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for Domcracy, Human Rights, and Labor Leslie Harris, President and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology Moderated by P.J. Crowley, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs P.J. Crowley moderates a discussion between [...]

A recent House Energy & Commerce hearing on Network Neutrality and Internet Regulation: Warranted or More Economic Harm Than Good took up the quality of the FCC’s “market analysis,” and the question whether the agency had performed any such analysis at all. The FCC Chairman insisted that the work had been done and that it [...]