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Five Concerns About AI Data Centers, and What to Do About Them
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (1631+ words) If the policy framework is right, AI infrastructure can strengthen the electricity grid rather than strain it, stabilize prices rather than inflate them, and transform heat and flexible demand into system assets. What Is a Data Center? 4 What AI Workloads…...
Comments to the FCC Regarding Satellite Market Access Reciprocity
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (111+ words) Outdated Competition Policy No Longer Reflects Market Realities 1 The Commission Should Apply the ECO-SAT Test to All Foreign-Licensed Satellite'Systems 2 A Universally Applied ECO-SAT Test Would Not Violate WTO Obligations 2 However, applying the ECO-SAT test to all countries resolves this concern....
Comments to FCC Regarding Transition of Communications Networks in the US to All IP Technology
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (196+ words) Transitioning networks to all IP technology will better protect consumers at a time when bad actors are frequently trying to defraud Americans via robocall scams. From January to September of 2025, Americans received an average of 2.56 billion robocalls every month. [5] Victims…...
Comments to UK Competition and Markets Authority Regarding Google's General Search Services
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (127+ words) 1. Introduction and Summary 2 2. Data Portability Conduct Requirement 3 3. Publisher Conduct Requirement 4 4. Fair Ranking Conduct Requirement 4 5. User Choice Conduct Requirement 5 For these reasons, ITIF has concerns with the PCRs and respectfully offers the following recommendations for the CMA to consider: [7].. " Data Portability…...
Maryland Broadband Policy Should Help Low-Income Consumers, Not Regulate Rates
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (148+ words) The proposed "Maryland Broadband Opportunity and Fairness Act" would regulate the broadband prices charged to low-income households in the name of affordability. But this legislation would ultimately hurt the very families it purports to help. Instead, Maryland should provide consumer-focused…...
App Stores Shouldn’t Have to Parent the Internet
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (696+ words) App Stores Shouldn't Have to Parent the Internet'Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) App Stores Shouldn't Have to Parent the Internet Lawmakers in Congress and several states, including Texas, Utah, and Louisiana, have been considering rules that would require app…...
California’s Public Advocates Office Makes Misleading Claims on Broadband Affordability
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (248+ words) The California Public Advocates Office recently published two reports that paint a doom-and-gloom picture of broadband affordability. But when we dug into their data, those conclusions don't hold up. First, the report "Broadband Competition and Pricing Strategies in California's Urban…...
Uncapped Fiber Fixation Can’t Close the Digital Divide
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (523+ words) As states weigh how to reform their Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) programs, they face a stark and urgent tradeoff: Spend marginal dollars on reaching the last few unserved homes with fiber'or use those same dollars to help far…...
Broadband Myths: LEOs Don’t Belong in BEAD
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (450+ words) NTIA's wise decision to make the largest federal broadband program tech neutral has been met with denunciations by self-styled consumer advocates, grasping at any possible criticism of the new level playing field. One avenue of attack has been to malign…...