Communications Policy

The first direct threat to the telephony business model has emerged in England. There The Cloud, a hotspot network, has...

We have a new medium here, one that needs principles to assure its liberty. These are political principles. Principles worth...

By trying to appear "tough on crime" Democrats are undermining the open Internet. A Democrat, Diana DeGette of Colorado, is...

The story has spread over the Internet this weekend like wildfire. Verizon has won a ruling that it can charge...

No. Neither are the cable companies. Phone and cable companies deliver last-mile Internet service, and phone companies own most of...

It's the links. Doc Searls sort of hits it on the head. It's the giving of links that makes blogging...

The more I read about MySpace, its success in getting users, and its problems, the more one word keeps coming...

The real political divide in America is between the ascendent open source view on the one side and the proprietary...

When the political pack is shuffled, the phone companies and cable companies are going to find they have won nothing...

The surprise is that the debate exists at all. By its nature, net neutrality is not a high-profile issue. It...