Communications

Killing the goose to get the gold inside leaves one with only a dead goose.

A group of small mobile phone carriers in the United States has sent a letter to the U.S. International Trade Commission expressing opposition to a possible sales ban of Samsung Electronics' mobile devices in the country.

Private sector experience should be considered a plus, indeed requisite, rather than treated as a contamination when it comes to appointed government offices.

Nearly a half-dozen tax proposals affecting Internet operations are expected to appear on the congressional agenda, with many of them affecting broadband and cable services.

Tom Giovanetti testified before state legislators in favor of the tax break for cable customers, saying there was a “gross disparity” in the taxing of satellite and cable. “We want the winners to be determined by who has the best product offerings, not by some historical quirk or glitch in the tax code that no one got around to fixing because it was hard.”

A coalition led by the Center for Individual Freedom ("CFIF") including IPI filed comments with the FCC urging regulators to grant a request made by telecommunications provider AT&T to conduct trial runs of the move to next-generation services, otherwise known as the IP transition.

ALEC's Communications and Technology Task Force is examining "uber trends" affecting the telecom world, big changes that won't be easy to "crystallize into model legislation," as the heavyweight organization has often done in the past, said IPI's Bartlett Cleland, Private Chair.

Who, or what, is being protected by antitrust actions? Not consumers. If they don’t like something, they won’t use it. Innovation still holds the key for our greater economic future, so long as government doesn’t get in the way.

While the NFL replacement referees hav enot earned high praise, no one has accused them of cheating, of ignoring facts, to change the game as they see fit. But what happens when that occurs at the FCC?

In regard to tennis, an invalid serve; in regard to sound public policy, a dangerous rewriting of the rules.