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Obama's nominee for FCC Chairman, Tom Wheeler, should provide industry participants with greater certainty as to how the commission will structure its upcoming spectrum incentive auction, lawyers representing carriers and broadcasters said at an event hosted by the Institute for Policy Innovation.

House Speaker John Boehner's public image has been badly tarnished. It's mostly been by his own doing.

Online sales tax reform may get all the attention, but there is another complex network of Internet-centric taxes that backers of reform say should be re-examined as well.

The FCC’s imposition of bidding restrictions on Verizon Wireless and AT&T, Inc., in its incentive auction would further complicate what is expected to already be the world’s most complex spectrum sale, several speakers said today at the Institute for Policy Innovation’s annual Communications Summit in Washington.

Increasing the amount of unlicensed spectrum available for Wi-Fi use is "a major policy objective" for Comcast, said Executive Director-Regulatory and Public Affairs David Don at the Institute for Policy Innovation's Communications Policy Summit Tuesday.

A moratorium on taxation of Internet access should become permanent, said CTIA and the Internet Tax Freedom Act Coalition.

Broadcast lawyer John Hane warned that the incentive auction could fail if the FCC doesn't get things right. "There are many, many, many paths to failure and only a fairly narrow set of paths to success," said Hane of Pillsbury Winthrop during a panel at an Institute for Policy Innovation conference.

Merrill Matthews sits down with The Freeman to explain what Obamacare is, isn't, might fix, and might make worse.

Daz Dillinger said the top-selling but controversial video game “Grand Theft Auto Five” includes his songs and lyrics without permission. Theft of digital music costs recording artists an estimated $12.5 billion annually, according to an IPI study.

Wendy Davis has thrown her hat into the gubernatorial ring. IPI's Tom Giovanetti predicts that the Democratic darling will lose — but Republicans might get bloodied in the battle as well, unless Abbott beats her handily. If Davis loses by anything less than 10 percent, Democrats will be able to spin it as a victory of sorts, Giovanetti says — and they’ll be right.