Tech at Night: USF Reform Reactions, We must stop SOPA and PROTECT IP censorship
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | October 31st at 11:00 PM |
Last week I noted that the FCC is officially moving ahead with its new subsidy program. The administration will convert the Universal Service Fund – currently taxing the public and handing it out to rural telephone carriers – into a grab bag of Internet subsidies. The rural phone companies are unhappy, and everyone else is racing to get a cut. C Spire, apparently serving many rural southern customers, | Read More »
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AT&T,
Barack Obama,
C Spire,
Copyright,
DMCA,
FCC,
George Soros,
Google,
GPS,
IIA,
Internet,
LightSquared,
PROTECT IP,
Public Knowledge,
SOPA,
Spectrum,
Sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
Subsidies,
T-Mobile,
Tech at Night,
Tech/Users Coalition,
Universal Service Fund,
Universal Service Fund Reform
Tech at Night: Rage against terrible, big government priorities in DC, Extrajudicial Internet seizures coming, Lightsquared vs GPS
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | October 13th at 03:00 AM |
Oh for crying out loud. For all that Washington talks tough about getting Americans access to high speed Internet, the “supercommittee” wants to tax new spectrum licensees. That’s just what we need: make it more expensive to build out America’s wireless infrastructure in order to pay for the President and his Cabinet to hand out money to their friends and political supporters. Isn’t that special? | Read More »
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4G,
Al Franken,
America's Broadband Connectivity Plan,
Amy Klobuchar,
Apple,
AT&T,
Barack Obama,
Blackberry,
Budget,
CDMA,
Censorship,
Competition,
Copyright,
Cybersecurity,
Democrats,
Eric Schmidt,
Google,
GPS,
GSM,
iCloud,
IIA,
Internet,
iOS,
iPhone,
iPhone 4S,
LightSquared,
PROTECT IP,
Richard Blumenthal,
RIM,
Senate,
Spectrum,
Sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
Supercommittee,
Taxes,
Universal Service Fund,
Universal Service Fund Reform,
Verisign,
Wireless
Tech at Night: Universal Service Fund, Dick Durbin’s new tax, Ron Johnson’s regulatory freeze
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | July 30th at 02:30 AM |
I’ve been warning for ages that Universal Service Fund reform was coming, and that it would end up as an Internet tax. Well here we go: Plans are afoot. Oddly enough though, people seem fine with the America’s Broadband Connectivity Plan, which so far seems to be a plan to redirect funding toward greater Internet access. Free State Foundation is fine with the plans so | Read More »
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Amazon,
Amazon Tax,
AT&T,
Clearwire,
Dick Durbin,
DMCA,
DRM,
EPA,
Eric Schmidt,
Free State Foundation,
FTC,
Google,
Greg Walden,
IIA,
Internet Sales Tax,
Internet Tax,
Interstate Commerce,
iPubSoft,
Lee Terry,
LightSquared,
Patents,
Regulation,
Ron Johnson,
Sales Tax,
Sprint,
T-Mobile,
Tech at Night,
Universal Access,
Universal Service Fund,
Universal Service Fund Reform
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