Oct 29 2020 Podcast Teleforum Should the Federal Government Be in the 5G Business? Jon Adame, Kelly Cole, George Ford, Lawrence J. Spiwak The Department of Defense (DoD) recently issued a Request for Information about the possibility of...
Oct 20 2020 Podcast Teleforum The Staggers Act Turns Forty: Lessons Learned from Railroad Regulation George Ford, Lawrence J. Spiwak, Timothy Strafford October 14, 2020 marks the 40th anniversary of the enactment of the Staggers Rail Act...
Sep 22 2020 Podcast Teleforum The Law and Economics of Municipal Broadband George Ford, Lawrence J. Spiwak, Danielle Thumann Now six months into the COVID pandemic, the Internet has offered Americans a welcome economic,...
Jul 8 2020 Topics Telecommunications & Electronic Media Blog Post Getting Broadband Subsidies Right This Time George Ford With the COVID-19 pandemic drawing increased attention to the nation’s Digital Divide, many lawmakers want...
Oct 7 2019 Podcast Teleforum Next Steps in the Net Neutrality Saga – Mozilla v. FCC George Ford, Russell P. Hanser, Daniel Lyons, Lawrence J. Spiwak This week, the D.C. Circuit issued its long-awaited opinion in Mozilla v. Federal Communications Commission...
Jul 22 2019 Topics Telecommunications & Electronic Media Blog Post News Proposed Reforms to FCC’s Lifeline Program Require A Bit More Thought George Ford In an effort to expand the use of telecommunications services by low-income Americans, the Federal...
Mar 21 2019 Topics Law & Economics • Telecommunications & Electronic Media Blog Post News Should Electric Co-Ops Provide Broadband? George Ford With the advent of the New Deal, many communities in rural America banded together to...
Jan 31 2019 Podcast Teleforum Antitrust Enforcement and Telecom Consolidation: What Does the Future Hold? George Ford, Alexander P. Okuliar, Chip Pickering The recent elimination of network neutrality rules by the FCC and re-emphasis on a lighter...
Jul 17 2018 Topics Corporations, Securities & Antitrust • Law & Economics • Telecommunications & Electronic Media Blog Post News Sometimes “No” is the Right Answer for Market Transactions George Ford Over the years, U.S. commercial spectrum policy has moved away from a government command-and-control regime...
Jun 26 2018 Topics Intellectual Property • Law & Economics Blog Post News Putting “Fair” Back in “Fair Use” George Ford To encourage creative activity, the U.S. Constitution authorizes Congress to provide authors and artists the...
Should the Federal Government Be in the 5G Business?
Jon Adame, Kelly Cole, George Ford, Lawrence J. Spiwak
The Department of Defense (DoD) recently issued a Request for Information about the possibility of...
The Staggers Act Turns Forty: Lessons Learned from Railroad Regulation
George Ford, Lawrence J. Spiwak, Timothy Strafford
October 14, 2020 marks the 40th anniversary of the enactment of the Staggers Rail Act...
The Law and Economics of Municipal Broadband
George Ford, Lawrence J. Spiwak, Danielle Thumann
Now six months into the COVID pandemic, the Internet has offered Americans a welcome economic,...
Topics
Getting Broadband Subsidies Right This Time
With the COVID-19 pandemic drawing increased attention to the nation’s Digital Divide, many lawmakers want...
Next Steps in the Net Neutrality Saga – Mozilla v. FCC
George Ford, Russell P. Hanser, Daniel Lyons, Lawrence J. Spiwak
This week, the D.C. Circuit issued its long-awaited opinion in Mozilla v. Federal Communications Commission...
Topics
Proposed Reforms to FCC’s Lifeline Program Require A Bit More Thought
In an effort to expand the use of telecommunications services by low-income Americans, the Federal...
Topics
Should Electric Co-Ops Provide Broadband?
With the advent of the New Deal, many communities in rural America banded together to...
Antitrust Enforcement and Telecom Consolidation: What Does the Future Hold?
George Ford, Alexander P. Okuliar, Chip Pickering
The recent elimination of network neutrality rules by the FCC and re-emphasis on a lighter...
Topics
Sometimes “No” is the Right Answer for Market Transactions
Over the years, U.S. commercial spectrum policy has moved away from a government command-and-control regime...
Topics
Putting “Fair” Back in “Fair Use”
To encourage creative activity, the U.S. Constitution authorizes Congress to provide authors and artists the...