Expert Opinion

Expert Opinion

Alejandro Roark: Spectrum Is the Foundation of America’s AI Future

America's physical AI future depends on a balanced spectrum strategy that pairs licensed auctions with expanded unlicensed and shared spectrum, the author urges.

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Evan Swarztrauber: Your Phone, Their Rules. It’s Time to Unlock the Mobile Market

The FCC should require carriers to automatically unlock cellphones once they're paid off, freeing consumers to switch providers and benefit from wireless competition.

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Ben Sperry: The FCC’s Digital-Discrimination Detour Hits a Dead End

The author praises the Eighth Circuit for striking down the FCC's digital discrimination rule, arguing that it imported disparate-impact liability into the broadband market.

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Joel Thayer and Matthew Wong: Space Policy Can’t Run on Dial-Up Speeds

A bipartisan push at the FCC and in Congress aims to modernize satellite licensing and clear the backlog threatening American leadership in space.

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Eric Bathras: From Fiber to Fabric, the Next Evolution of BEAD

Maryland officials are urging NTIA and Congress to let states use remaining BEAD funds for integrated, multi-use infrastructure rather than single-purpose broadband builds.

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Lou Blatt: AI Models as Sovereign Assets, or Redefining Data Control in Emergency Communications

As AI reshapes emergency communications, public safety agencies must rethink data sovereignty as a matter of operational readiness rather than basic compliance.

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Kristian Stout and Michael Calabrese: The FCC Lets Satellite Innovation Breathe

The FCC's pending vote to modernize outdated technical limits would unlock 7x gains in satellite broadband capacity.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

Pole Attachments

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.

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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.