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Broadband

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Broadband

Government Spending Billions To Expand Broadband but Can't Tell Who Needs It

The Federal Communications Commission uses broadband coverage maps that are so severely flawed, states started shelling out to make their own.

Joe Lancaster | 1.5.2023 3:15 PM

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Infrastructure

Do We Really Need 100 Different Federal Programs To Fund Broadband?

A new GAO report finds that the government lacks a "national strategy with clear roles, goals, objectives, and performance measures."

Joe Lancaster | 6.3.2022 1:10 PM

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Infrastructure

Congress Finally Passed Biden's Inefficient, Deficit-Hiking Infrastructure Bill

It's one of the most expensive legislative packages in American history, but the $1.2 trillion bill will end up doing far less than it otherwise could have.

Eric Boehm | 11.6.2021 1:00 PM

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Infrastructure

The Senate's Infrastructure Bill Redefines 'Broadband' To Manufacture a Connectivity Crisis

It is the equivalent of mandating that all new homes come with at least five bathrooms.

Eric Boehm | 8.10.2021 3:20 PM

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Infrastructure

Government Broadband Has Been a Costly, Corrupt Failure. Congress' Infrastructure Bill Calls For More.

The bipartisan infrastructure deal that's expected to pass the Senate this week would spend $65 billion on broadband projects, including more than $40 billion for largely unnecessary municipal broadband efforts.

Eric Boehm | 8.2.2021 5:05 PM

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Infrastructure

Biden's Infrastructure Plan Would Redefine 'Broadband' To Justify Spending $100 Billion on Government-Run Internet

The Biden administration is manufacturing a market failure to justify spending $100 billion on municipal broadband and other government-run internet projects.

Eric Boehm | 4.28.2021 2:00 PM

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Broadband

Why Biden's Broadband Bonanza Is Likely to Fail

We already know how to affordably expand connectivity; government-run networks ain’t it.

Andrea O'Sullivan | 4.13.2021 8:30 AM

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Infrastructure

Biden's $2.3 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Is Teeming With Cronyism

Democrats never miss an opportunity to rail against big corporations. Yet they're eagerly subsidizing their big corporate friends.

Veronique de Rugy | 4.8.2021 2:06 AM

Q&A

FCC

Ajit Pai on What the FCC Has Done Right

Pai has focused on taking a market-based approach to regulating the nation's always-evolving telecommunications industry, with great success.

Nick Gillespie | 1.25.2021 6:00 AM

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Broadband

California Enacts State Net Neutrality Rules, Gets Sued Immediately

California's new law is a legal mess.

Christian Britschgi | 10.1.2018 3:10 PM

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Appalachia

The Noble, Misguided Plan to Turn Coal Miners Into Coders

Expensive high-speed internet and job training won't transform Appalachia into "Silicon Holler."

Ronald Bailey | 11.25.2017 6:00 AM

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Broadband

City-Owned Fiber Networks Are a Terrible Idea

How municipal broadband drains local taxpayers

Christian Britschgi | 5.26.2017 10:50 AM

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How Deregulation Gave Us FM Radio, HBO, and the iPhone

The FCC is designed to protect incumbents, enrich politicians, and screw consumers, says economist Thomas Hazlett.

Justin Monticello and Nick Gillespie | 5.22.2017 2:14 PM

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FCC

Herbert Hoover's Radio Malware Turns 90

The Radio Act of 1927 has enjoyed a nice, long life. It's past time for a retirement party.

Thomas W. Hazlett | 2.24.2017 12:10 PM

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FCC

Court Rules FCC Cannot Overrule State Laws Limiting City-Run Broadband

Potential pork projects hardest hit.

Scott Shackford | 8.11.2016 11:30 AM

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FCC

How to Justify Continued Federal Meddling in Internet Service? Just Keep Changing the Goals!

FCC votes to change the definition of 'broadband,' increasing the minimum speed required.

Scott Shackford | 1.29.2015 5:20 PM

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Broadband

Government-Subsidized Broadband? Could Obama Define 'Necessity' Down Any Further?

The president addresses a country that currently hates his political party by offering more big government.

Scott Shackford | 1.15.2015 12:10 PM

Policy

FCC Broadcast Spectrum Auction Delayed

Pushed to mid-2105

Reason Staff | 12.9.2013 3:20 PM

Policy

Local Governments Throw Up Barriers to Broadband

They overcharge for access to rights of way, unless ISPs have clout

Reason Staff | 7.16.2013 1:48 PM

Policy

Senator Introduces Bill to Regulate Broadband Data Caps

The government knows better than the service providers, right?

Reason Staff | 12.20.2012 7:50 PM

Economics

Federal Broadband Effort Displaces Private Companies

Why invest in fiber-optic if the feds are going to subsidize the competition?

Reason Staff | 8.27.2012 3:40 PM

Policy

Those E-mail Tax Warnings Weren't False; They Were Sent from the Future!

FCC looks at new taxes to pay for expanding broadband access for five percent of the population.

Scott Shackford | 8.27.2012 3:05 PM

Policy

19 Million Americans Lack Broadband Internet

Apparently the FCC thinks this is a problem it is supposed to fix.

Reason Staff | 8.21.2012 9:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Wiretapping Law May Have Been a Response to Deregulation

Intelligence court likely ruled that loosened broadband market was beyond the reach of existing snooping rules

Reason Staff | 8.21.2012 5:40 PM

Science & Technology

Regulators Approve Verizon Spectrum Sale

Deal will help adapt to increasing demand for data services on mobile platforms.

Reason Staff | 8.16.2012 7:20 PM

Policy

The Broadband Crisis: Who Cares?

Brian Doherty | 8.13.2010 3:11 PM

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