Editors’ note: This is a guest column. See Larry Downes’ bio below California Congressman Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is preparing a limited Net neutrality law he may introduce as early as Tuesday, with hopes of passage before Congress adjourns for the election season. Washington D.C. newspaper The Hill leaked …

Editors’ note: This is a guest column. See Larry Downes’ bio below. Even before the D.C. Circuit’s decision in Comcast v. FCC, a great deal of ink has been spilled over speculation that the FCC will rescue its marooned Net neutrality rulemaking by “reclassifying” broadband Internet access as a “telecommunications service” under Title II of the Communications Act. (Some of …

Editors’ note: This is a guest column. See Larry Downes’ bio below. It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. In 1996, Congress passed the landmark Telecommunications Act. The last major reform of communications law, the 1996 act ended Judge Harold Greene’s 10-year effort to run America’s telecommunications industry from his judicial chambers after the forced …

Editors’ note: This is a guest column. See Larry Downes’ bio below. While much of the technology policy conversations at CES concerned positive developments such as the imminent National Broadband Plan, one dark cloud appeared at every turn. Nearly every speaker invoked fears of a looming “spectrum crisis” in wireless communications. Simply put, the faster that U.S. consumers embrace new …

Editors’ note: This is a guest column. See Larry Downes’ bio below. I’m finally recovering from the case of information overload I caught at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month. A great deal of policy was discussed at gadget central, thanks to the hard work of Tech Policy Central, which, for the first time at CES, …

Editors’ note: This is a guest column. See Larry Downes’ bio below. LAS VEGAS–The Obama administration and its allies at the Federal Communications Commission are retreating from a militant version of Net neutrality regulations first outlined by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski in September. That’s my reading of a number of recent developments, underscored by comments made by government speakers on …

Editors’ note: This is a guest column. See Larry Downes’ bio below. I’ve managed to slog through the 107-page “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” (PDF) issued late last week by the Federal Communications Commission. Let me save you the trouble of reading the 185 numbered paragraphs, 310 footnotes, and three appendices, including separate statements from each of the five commissioners: there’s …