Tag: broadband
On March 28, AEI’s Mark Jamison hosted a panel discussion on strategies for transparency, efficiency, and accountability in state broadband programs. The panel featured representatives from high-performing state broadband offices: Broadband Expansion and Accessibility of Mississippi’s Sally Doty, Idaho Commerce’s Ramón S. Hobdey-Sánchez, and ConnectLA’s Veneeth Iyengar. It also featured the University of North Texas’s [...]
The internet, once an open frontier, is again at the center of a contentious debate over regulatory approaches, thanks to a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposal to once again impose its Title II authority on broadband providers. The nearly 30 year debate has been marked by partisan contention and regulatory oscillations. From a hands-off strategy [...]
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) marked a significant change in tactics for bridging the digital divide—the gap between broadband haves and have-nots—by ushering in the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. Intended to bring the digital age into unserved and underserved areas, the BEAD program is armed with $42.45 billion allocated [...]
In a concerning turn of events, the now Democrat-controlled Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expanding its control of telecommunications beyond what the agency had in the days of Ma Bell’s monopoly. As a result, Americans are facing diminished broadband services at a higher cost. The FCC is overreaching on two fronts. One is its push [...]
On October 2, AEI hosted an expert panel to discuss how price controls might affect broadband affordability and ways to ensure broadband is affordable for all Americans. The panel featured New Street Research’s Jonathan Chaplin, Duke University’s Michelle P. Connolly, the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society’s John Horrigan, and Georgetown University’s John W. Mayo. [...]