Expert Opinion

Expert Opinion

Abe Salander and Zeb Zankel: Real Estate and Commercial Strategies for Monetizing Dark Fiber

Electric utilities have a rare opportunity to monetize their existing fiber infrastructure amid surging demand from AI data centers and federal broadband programs.

Expert Opinion

Jeff Collins: Companies Blindly Suffer as Internet Outages Surge

When outages cascade across cloud providers, ISPs, and edge networks, most teams are left blind to failures happening outside their walls.

Expert Opinion

Gary Shapiro: The War on Platforms is a War on Innovation

The author urges Congress to preserve Section 230 and the legal tradition of regulating bad actors rather than the technologies they use–especially AI.

Expert Opinion

Renee Gregory: A Study That Defies Physics Should Not Define National Security Policy

NextNav defends its proposed GPS backup system against security industry interference claims, calling the underlying study deeply flawed

Center for American Rights

Robert Corn-Revere: Fact Checking Without Facts

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's threats to revoke broadcast licenses over 'fake news' distort the public interest standard, the author writes

Expert Opinion

Dean Bubley: The Danger of High-Power CBRS Proposals

A new study warns that proposed higher-power rules could undermine its thriving shared-use ecosystem to benefit a few large carriers.

Expert Opinion

Michael O'Rielly: Paramount Deal Doesn’t Trigger Foreign Ownership Concerns

Paramount's foreign-backed bid for Warner Bros./Discovery poses little FCC concern since all overseas investors are passive with no content control, the author writes.

NTIA

Bill Maguire: The FCC Secures a (Bipartisan!) Win for Rural Broadband

The FCC's unanimous pole attachment ruling is a promising sign of bipartisan pragmatism in broadband policy, the author writes.

Expert Opinion

Aiden Buzzetti: The FCC Should Make Sure EchoStar Creditors Are Paid Back Billions Owed

EchoStar is trying to cash out on spectrum sales while stiffing the companies that built its network.

Expert Opinion

Avi Rosenthal: A Risky Tradeoff in the Race for GPS Backup

Reallocating the Lower 900 MHz band could undermine billions of devices already supporting safety and critical infrastructure.

Expert Opinion

Drew Gravitt: Powering the AI Era Isn’t Just an Energy Problem, It’s an Infrastructure One

As AI data center electricity demand is projected to double by 2030, the industry's biggest bottleneck is no longer compute, but energy

5G Wireless

Joel Thayer and Matthew Wong: The FCC’s $40 Billion Question

A Citizens Broadband Radio Service auction could raise $45 billion for the U.S. Treasury

Expert Opinion

Daniel Suhr: Broadcast License Revocation Fact Check

Historical FCC precedent includes cases where station owners lost their broadcast licenses for deliberately skewing news coverage toward favored political candidates.

Expert Opinion

Suman Kanuganti: Why Telcos, Not Tech Giants, Will Power the AI Grid

Telcos may soon evolve from connectivity providers into the infrastructure layer for personalized, identity-bound AI memory.

Expert Opinion

Mary Guenther: BEAD Non-Deployment Dollars and the Risk of Unfulfilled Broadband Promises

The BEAD broadband program now has roughly $20 billion in leftover funds, and policymakers are debating how best to spend it

Expert Opinion

Ajit Pai: The Big Lesson from Barcelona is AI and Wireless Are Converging

MWC reinforced that AI and wireless connectivity are inseparable, and that U.S. leadership in both hinges on smart spectrum policy and outpacing China.