Communications

A coalition led by the Center for Individual Freedom ("CFIF") including IPI filed comments with the FCC urging regulators to grant a request made by telecommunications provider AT&T to conduct trial runs of the move to next-generation services, otherwise known as the IP transition.

ALEC's Communications and Technology Task Force is examining "uber trends" affecting the telecom world, big changes that won't be easy to "crystallize into model legislation," as the heavyweight organization has often done in the past, said IPI's Bartlett Cleland, Private Chair.

Who, or what, is being protected by antitrust actions? Not consumers. If they don’t like something, they won’t use it. Innovation still holds the key for our greater economic future, so long as government doesn’t get in the way.

While the NFL replacement referees hav enot earned high praise, no one has accused them of cheating, of ignoring facts, to change the game as they see fit. But what happens when that occurs at the FCC?

In regard to tennis, an invalid serve; in regard to sound public policy, a dangerous rewriting of the rules.

A couple weeks ago Mr. Rubio, along with Senator McCaskill and a bi-partisan group of co-sponsoring senators, introduced a resolution that if approved would demonstrate the U.S. government's commitment to Internet freedom by opposing the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and some countries' efforts to impose international regulations dictating how the Internet is to be operated.

United Nations members who prefer top-down governance and a heavy hand of government, are on the march to change the “rules” of the Internet

Rural telecommunication’s providers and their Capitol Hill protectors are seeking to postpone the FCC protections and may be looking to weaken consumer protections in the Farm Bill.

Bloomberg's Paul Barbagallo reports from IPI's 4th annual Communications Summit that industry experts say wireless carriers need more spectrum than the estimated 60 MHz to 120 MHz that will be reclaimed from television broadcasters under the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act.

IPI's Fourth Annual Communications Summit, "Creating the Future"  was held in Washington, DC February 29, 2011.