Posts Tagged ‘FCC’
FCC approves a new fee to be added to your phone bill
If you pay any attention to your phone bill you know that buried within the “other charges” section is something called the Universal Service Fund Fee. Of course, there are lots of such “other charges”, so much so that for me, at least, they amount to 39% of my phone bill, excluding any long distance…
Read MoreCongress strikes back: the FCC and the NLRB
As you may recall, the FCC’s Christmas present to America was a rule, issued December 23, 2010, that restricts how Internet service providers (like Verizon, or AT&T, or a host of others) manage traffic on their own Internet systems. The FCC’s rule was “in response” to a decision by the District of Columbia Circuit Court…
Read MoreWhy Obama doesn’t need Congress
With Obama’s recent “compromise” on not raising taxes for anyone, much has been said about the possibility that Obama, like Clinton before him, is moving to the center. He isn’t, he doesn’t have to, and he doesn’t need Congress to accomplish his agenda.
Read MoreNet neutrality … have no fear, the Government is in control
I spent the better part of the show on this and for good reason. It’s a bad idea. It gives extraordinary powers over the internet to the FCC to solve a problem that exists only in their minds. Worse … as John Fund pointed out in the WSJ … this is likely just the beginning…
Read MoreReview on Net Neutrality – a problem that does not exist?
So you’ve probably heard of Net Neutrality and had no idea what the heck was it all about. Want to know why it’s a fringe subject concerning some big Internet problem? It’s because it’s not really a problem at all.
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