Letters

IPI urges the Tennessee legislature to reject a proposal that would radically increase the pole attachment fee charged to broadband providers because it would raise the cost and slow the spread of broadband in Tennessee.

Believers in free markets seek to reduce, rather than increase, the government’s role in markets and price-setting whenever possible. Accordingly, we respectfully write to express our grave concerns about H.R. 6480, the misnamed “Internet Radio Fairness Act of 2012.”

Coalition letter in support of resolutions that would stop efforts by the Obama Administration to weaken the work requirements in the federal welfare program.

A coalition of 14 free market organizations, including the Institute for Policy Innovation, urged the Federal Communications Commission to approve a private deal between Verizon and cable companies that will free currently unused spectrum to help alleviate the growing “spectrum crunch” that many wireless consumers – particularly those in densely populated areas of the country – are already feeling.