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12 things Mary Meeker wants you to know about the Internet
One of policy wonkdom's annual milestones is the publication of Mary Meeker’s slide deck on Internet trends (2015 Internet Trends). Meeker's slide deck is a massive overview of national and global...
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5 cybersecurity takeaways from Akamai’s latest “State of the Internet” report
Last Wednesday's Internet events turned out to be less dramatic than first expected. Salon suggested that claims by Anonymous that they'd taken down the stock market were believable, but they turned...
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Akamai on broadband: A few surprises and a new (but useless) metric
Akamai’s most recent “State of the Internet” report is 60 pages of insightful data on broadband around the world. The report contains reiterations of many things we already knew (including that the US...
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Will Title II go global?
Now that the FCC has reclassified Internet service as a telecommunications utility, advocates of reclassification see an opportunity to spread the FCC’s error world-wide. Their window of opportunity is...
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How to eliminate junk patents without going broke
Patent reform efforts tend to focus on trolls, who purchase often-dubious patents and then use them to intimidate often-clueless businesses into paying settlements for patents they haven’t actually...
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Consultant desperately tries to preserve EU’s broadband status quo
The consulting firm Analysys Mason has compiled a report on European broadband policy that recommends continuing Europe’s historic policy framework rather than shifting to the more effective...
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“Spectrum Day” in Congress strikes a friendly note
Wednesday was Spectrum Day in Congress, with parallel hearings in both houses on freeing up radio frequency spectrum for mobile broadband. The issue is well understood from a 50,000-foot level: demand...
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Ghosts and goblins in tech policy
Happy Halloween, gentle reader. This strangest of holidays is essentially global, as the Buddhists and Taoists in East Asia observe a similar festival in which food and incense are offered to the...
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Consensus betrayed: Net neutrality’s war on network progress
It’s often said that the FCC’s 2015 Open Internet order dismantled a bipartisan regulatory consensus that had prevailed in Washington since the Clinton Administration. You don’t need to look very hard...
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Real answers to 8 questions about Friday’s net neutrality hearing
Cecilia Kang answered these 8 questions about net neutrality in today’s New York Times Bits Blog. Here’s what she should have said. Q. I still don’t get what “net neutrality” means. Explain. A. Net...
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Regulating an obsolete Internet: The FCC’s attempt to erase 15 years of...
Now that the smoke has cleared and we’ve had some time for the high points of the December 4th oral arguments in the multi-party challenge to the FCC’s 2015 net neutrality regulations to emerge, it’s...
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The year in net neutrality
Net neutrality was obviously the biggest tech policy issue of 2015 for those of us who work in the Internet and communication space. The first bombshell dropped on February 26, when the FCC passed its...
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The legacy of Barlow’s cyberspace declaration of independence
The day after President Bill Clinton signed the 1996 Telecommunications Act into law, the act was harshly rebuked by a classic rant emanating from the plush confines of Davos, the policy playground of...
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5 wireless technologies that will change the world
Some remarkable technologies are emerging from the field of wireless engineering, and they promise to make radical improvements in the ways we work, play, learn, and communicate in the fairly near...
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Making the FCC great again
Celebrity businessman Donald Trump raised more than a few eyebrows when he called for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to fine his critic Rich Lowry and ban him from the airwaves. Lowry’s...
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Encryption: The FBI’s “Comedy of Errors”
The comedy of errors continues in the case of the FBI’s attempt to penetrate the iPhone issued to San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook by his employer. To review, the phone in question was issued to...
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Labeling for no good reason
In a political season dominated by bravado and bumper-sticker slogans, it’s no wonder that labels have surpassed logic in policy discourse. It’s not limited to the campaign trail; consider, for...
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Net neutrality is effectively random
Net neutrality is a program of price regulation, and it has always run aground on the question of service differentiation, as my colleague Bronwyn Howell pointed out last week. Net neutrality advocates...
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Surge in data localization laws spells trouble for Internet users
Data localization laws — restrictions against the transfer of various kinds of personal information across national or regional boundaries — are increasingly common. These laws are driven by two...
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12 things Mary Meeker wants you to know about the Internet, 2016 edition...
The release of Mary Meeker’s annual slide deck on Internet trends is an occasion for everyone with a stake in the development of the Internet economy to take stock of where we are and where we’re...
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