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Broadband Truth-in-Labeling
Kudos to the New American Foundation's Open Technology Initiative (OTI). Earlier this week, I told Geoff Daily that we would all benefit from some form of a truth-in-labeling requirement for broadband....
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In Broadband Networks, Private Ownership Leads to Consolidation
In all the talk of the need for competition in broadband (or in the mobile space), there is remarkably little attention paid to the difficulties in actually creating competition. A common refrain from...
View ArticleThe Internet That Might Have Been
Publication Date: August 19, 2010Author(s): John Blevins, Loyola University School of LawThe abstract immediately captured my attention:Policymakers often tell us that the Internet succeeded because of...
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Did BT Subsidize Burlington with Cheap Internet Access?
There is so much to say about Burlington Telecom and its struggles that it cannot be covered in a single post. This is one of several posts that will discuss pieces of the situation. One of the...
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Gotta Love that Efficient, Competitive Broadband Market
As previously noted on both Fiber Evolution and Joho the Blog, Brough Turner (creator of netBlazr) created a slide showing the state of broadband competition in one of our largest cities: Boston.Tags:...
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Making Markets Work - Information Asymmetry
An article about health care in the 2012 November Wired offers a strong reminder of how important smart government policy plays in making markets function well.Tags: regulationpolicymarketfree...
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Susan Crawford, Captive Audience, and How to Kill the Cable Monopoly
Susan Crawford, author of the just-released Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, is our guest for the 29th episode of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. A...
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Infographic: The Market Has Spoken. The Market Is Broken.
“Monopoly” may be a fun family night activity, but if you live in a place where you have little or no choice for Internet access, it’s not fun and it’s not a game.According to FCC data, most families...
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Policies to Make Markets Work - Community Broadband Bits Podcast 250
The larger focus of our work in the Community Broadband Networks Initiative is to ensure communities have the networks they need. Our guest for Community Broadband Bits episode 250 is an expert in how...
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Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 250
This is the transcript for episode 250 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Gary Reback, author of Free the Market: Why Only Government Can Keep the Marketplace Competitive, joins the show to...
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Broadband Planning and How Government Creates Markets - Community Broadband...
Just what does it take to have a market? It may be more complicated than you think -- and in large part because of the things most of us don't notice that governments do. We discuss this and the role...
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The Broadband Market is Broken: Don't Fall for Lobbyist Lies
We’ve all been lied to, but when we’re lied to by those we rely on, it’s the worst. Right now, we are all subject to a lie about our Internet access. That lie is rooted in the idea that the best way to...
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New Report: Failed Federal Policy Generates Customer Frustration in Broadband...
Author(s): Emma GautierA new report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) examines Internet Service Providers’ (ISPs) transparency — or lack thereof — around the Internet service packages...
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Shopping for Broadband: Failed Federal Policy Creates Murky Marketplace
Publication Date: November 11, 2021Author(s): Emma GautierA new report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) examines Internet Service Providers’ (ISPs) transparency — or lack thereof —...
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[Updated Report] Shopping for Broadband: Failed Federal Policy Creates Murky...
In November, we published a report examining the transparency practices of Internet Service Providers (ISPs). "Shopping for Broadband: Failed Federal Policy Creates Murky Marketplace" identified...
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