For cable companies, that set-top box is the gift that keeps on giving, and giving, and giving.
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Deregulating The Cable Box
Tag Archives: The FCC
Would Better Maps Mean Better Cell Service?
Sen. Chuck Schumer’s cell service crusade won’t improve cell service, but that was never the point.
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ISPs Choose Bankers As Role Models
Abusing customers helped bring down a regulatory anvil on bankers. Now ISPs are following the same path.
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Net Neutrality Does Not Equal Net Utility
If Internet service had been regulated as a utility in 1999, we would still probably connect with state-of-the-art dial-up.
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A Dumb Idea For Smart Phones
Do you wish you could use your cutting-edge, Internet-enabled smart phone to receive FM radio broadcasts, like a transistor radio …
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The FCC Goes Backward To The Future
A couple of decades ago, trucking companies could carry frozen TV dinners containing chicken, turkey, and fish at whatever price …
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Delta Farce Takes Brazil
You can’t get much English-language television when you stay at a hotel 100 miles outside Sao Paulo, Brazil, but you …
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How Much Internet Speed Do We Need?
Your ISP sells gazillion-megabit service, and your car dealer offers a vehicle that can do 180 mph. They are equally useful.
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