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IPI's Bartlett Cleland says the Marketplace Fairness Act would compel businesses to comply with every single tax code in the nation if they want to sell their goods everywhere. And noncompliance could mean a costly audit from the states where sellers are sending their products.

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.

Georgia's House Bill 282 is reigniting controversies and conversation on whether states should limit municipal broadband networks.

The Federal Communications Commission is not able to flexibly adapt to changed  circumstances in the communications world, according to officials on how to the transition to internet protocol networks.

The FCC is not able to flexibly adapt to changed  circumstances in the communications world, according to officials . In a January letter to the FCC, IPI chastised: “It borders on the absurd to require that companies like AT&T maintain two parallel networks, a forward looking one that is desired by consumers and businesses; but also an expensive legacy network that is necessary only to comply with outdated regulations.”

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.

IPI's Bartlett Cleland opposed the FCC order granting Tennis Channel's program carriage complaint against Comcast, calling the 3-2 ruling a "further erosion by the FCC of the freedom to contract, and hence property rights protection."

Sens. Dick Durbin and Mike Enzi are "pro-taxers" who are "trying to avoid a debate on the merits" of an e-commerce sales tax bill by adding it as an amendment to the Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act, the Institute for Policy Innovation said Wednesday to Communications Daily.

Mobile apps, with their extraordinary reach, have the power to transform health care. IPI's Merrill Matthews is cited by reporter Dina ElBoghdady in the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune on the classic showdown occuring between Washington regulators charged with safeguarding the public's health and a freewheeling tech industry that prizes agility and first-to-market bragging rights.

Conservative organizations sprung to the defense of Verizon Wireless’ latest deal to acquire unused spectrum from several leading cable providers pending before the Federal Communications Commission Friday, writes Josh Peterson of the Daily Caller.