Regulation

Regulators still have a role to play today, but it is not the role of the last 50 years.

With the U.S.’s obvious and compelling broadband success story, why do regulation advocates compulsively call for much heavier government regulation and control over the broadband industry?

Private sector experience should be considered a plus, indeed requisite, rather than treated as a contamination when it comes to appointed government offices.

If the FCC is going to be involved in mhealth, and broader health tech, expansion, then the agency must get out of its own way.

Rep. Rene Oliveira has filed a bill to make sure that Texans can do whatever they want with tickets they buy for live events -- and that ticket sellers and venues can't restrict the resale or gifting of tickets. Now is the time to address the issue, said Tom Giovanetti.

Testimony in support of legislation to protect the natural secondary markets for tickets against those who seek to extinguish or monopolize them.

Unlike typical government meddling in prices, President Obama’s policies always seem designed to make prices higher.

IPI urges the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to do its part to speed the transition from the legacy PSTN to IP-based networks by allowing test migrations in specific geographic areas, and by reforming several other archaic regulations.

As if the fiscal cliff, debt ceiling, higher taxes and a potential recession weren’t enough to scare employers, the Obama administration has just handed them one more headache: an IRS warning that any efforts to avoid the ObamaCare mandate to provide coverage or pay a penalty will not go unpunished.

Over the last few years regulators seem to have been handing out gifts to those they deem worthy even as they bestow lumps of coal and switches to others who have not caught their fancy, most recently in Kansas City, Kansas. Call it a regulatory Santa Clause workshop.