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August 18, 2011

The Growth Agenda America Needs

The ongoing budget debate, deciding how the country manages government spending, is a defining series of moments for the country.
August 11, 2011

Going Out of Business: Big Box Stores and Congress Collude to Secure a Monopoly

For more than 45 years the states have fought in the courts or on Capitol Hill for the power to force merchants to collect tax for them when the merchant sells something out of state.
July 28, 2011

Philadelphia: More Costs and Wireless

Philadelphia taxpayers left stranded, again, with a failed municipal wi-fi network might wish Philly was in the Tar Heel State.
July 14, 2011

A Monopoly on Government Hindering Innovation, Progress and Jobs?

Lately many technology stories, from search engines to telecommunications, include a discussion of a company’s ability to “control” some marketplace—in other words, lots of talk about “monopolies.
June 30, 2011

Coming to a Conclusion on the FCC and Wireless Competition

The FCC just released its wireless report, and for the second year in a row this FCC has declined to come to a conclusion as to whether the wireless industry is “competitive.
June 16, 2011

Reading This TechByte Will Destroy the Planet

Really? So asserts Mohamed Cheriet of Montreal's Ecole de Technologie Superieure.
June 2, 2011

FCC: Overreach and Overbroad, not Oversight

The announcement that AT&T plans to acquire T-Mobile USA is now nearly three months old and yet it seems that the FCC regulatory machine is sputtering, without a real timetable, and without a clear path for quality policy making.
May 26, 2011

Innovation at the Speed of Bureaucracy

The pace of technological innovation in communications is mindboggling; it’s almost impossible to keep up with the proliferation of better handsets, an increasing number of services, the multiplying apps on better networks, and all costing less—a lot less.
May 5, 2011

Texas Hotel Tax Grab

Thousands of Americans use services such as Texas-based Hotels.
April 8, 2011

Why North Carolina Should Restrict Municipal Broadband Schemes

Many municipalities around the country have struggled, and failed, to either stand up to communications networks or partner with private companies to get into the business of broadband.

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