Category Archives: Internet
A #smartcity is a hub for smart #trade
Talks for revamping the North American Free Trade Agreement took place last week. A trade agreement that is a quarter of a century old needs to catch up with today’s new platforms for global trade. Cities play a role in … Continue reading
Posted in broadband, commerce, Economy, globalization, Internet, trade
Tagged smart city, trade
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Of the State, the Klan, Netizens, and #netneutrality
I just finished listening to Federal Communications Commission member Mignon Clyburn make the argument for more State intervention in the digital data markets during an event sponsored by civil rights group Color of Change. Ms Clyburn’s remarks provided a foundation … Continue reading
Why wouldn’t government want Comcast and Google to manage your information?
American households represent untapped information that government wants to grow, harvest, and exploit. Local, state, and federal governments have data on your birth, your matriculation through school, your educational status, your income, your health records, your marital status, the schools … Continue reading
The anarcho-capitalist perspective on net neutrality. Keep the State out
Today the Federal Communications Commission voted on a notice of proposed rule making that repeals net neutrality rules put in place by the Commission in 2015. The rules classified broadband access services as a telecommunications service, taking it out of … Continue reading
Posted in American society, AT&T, broadband, broadband access provider, capital, Congressional Black Caucus, consumer protection, democracy, Federal Communications Commission, free markets, Google, government, Internet, net neutrality, regulation, Title II, Uncategorized, Verizon
Tagged Federal Communications Commission, net neutrality
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#Liberals show naivete about the internet
In an opinion piece published last week in The Washington Post, Senator Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, and former Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler made the argument that planned attempts by current FCC … Continue reading
Posted in broadband, Democrats, Internet, Uncategorized
Tagged broadband, Democrats, Internet
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Minorities should seek a bigger slice of the new media pie … as investors and owners
The digital divide argument, that there is a disparity between non-whites and whites when it comes to broadband access, is losing its mojo for me. While broadband access for minority households via hard line may fall behind that of white … Continue reading
Posted in big data, broadband, business, commerce, e-commerce, Economy, Internet, libertarianism, media, Uncategorized
Tagged media, minorities
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Congress nudges FCC back to its primary mission
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve S.J. Res 34, a resolution that invalidates privacy rules enacted by the Federal Communications Commission last December. The rules imposed common carrier privacy restrictions on broadband providers. Opponents of the Commission’s … Continue reading
For minority communities,increased broadband deployment should be about production
I just finished reading through some of the testimony presented earlier today during a hearing before the U.S. Senate’s subcommittee on technology, communications, innovation, and the internet. The subcommittee’s focus this morning was on the economic value of spectrum, the … Continue reading
Posted in apps, big data, broadband, Federal Communications Commission, Internet, Political Economy, spectrum
Tagged broadband, mobile, spectrum, wireless
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Using broadband to create a data trade
Proponents of connecting more people to the internet via a high-speed connection should consider the, “and …what else?” response from consumers who have not yet taken the broadband plunge. The violation of data privacy these consumers hear about may be … Continue reading
Posted in apps, big data, broadband, data brokers, e-commerce, Internet, Political Economy, wireless
Tagged apps, big data, broadband, data, data brokers, data mining
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