George W. Bush - Broadband Breakfast

5G Wireless

Meeting A National Security Challenge: The Race To GPS Resiliency

The lack of a backup to GPS is one of the U.S.’s biggest national security risks.

People

Michael Powell Stepping Down as CEO of NCTA

Under Powell’s leadership, NCTA successfully influenced public policies in expanding broadband access

Digital Inclusion

Cruz to Introduce CRA Resolution Targeting FCC’s E-Rate Rule

Part of a 'lengthy list' of Biden-era rules Republicans plan to overturn using CRA.

Trump Vance Administration

Ethics Laws May Complicate Elon Musk's Efforts to 'Delete' Regulation

Musk says he and President-elect Donald Trump have 'mandate to delete' regulations.

Donald Trump

All-GOP Judicial Panel Picked to Hear FCC Net Neutrality Case

Oral arguments are scheduled for Oct. 31, 2024 in Cincinnati

Net Neutrality

Sixth Circuit Appeals Court Stays the FCC's Net Neutrality Rules

'Because the broadband providers have shown that they are likely to succeed on the merits and that the equities support them, we grant the stay,' the court said.

Sixth Circuit

ISPs, FCC Clash Over Net Neutrality Post-Chevron

FCC wants Sixth Circuit to reject ISPs' attempt to block net neutrality rules.

Sixth Circuit

Sixth Circuit to Keep Net Neutrality Case in Cincinnati, a Win for ISPs

Ahead of a stay ruling, Sixth Circuit asks for briefs on impact of the demise of the Chevron Doctrine.

Biden-Harris Administration

Considering the Geopolitics of the Internet Under the Biden Administration at State of the Net

January 27, 2021 – Keynoting Wednesday’s State of the Net Conference, former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell urged the new administration of Joe Biden to promote broadband, fiber, 5G wireless networks – as well as allowing consumers to move seamlessly across wired and wirel

E-Rate

Karl Rove Promotes Open Radio Access Network, FCC Talks 5G, Digital Divide and ‘One Touch Make Ready’

September 18, 2020 — Karl Rove, former senior advisor to President George W. Bush, on Tuesday argued that in order for the country to remain competitive in 5G, it is necessary to build disaggregated, open radio access networks and introduce a wholesale marketplace. Rove, speaking at the 2020 INCOMPA

Second Circuit

Appeals Court Says Trump Can’t Block Twitter Critics

WASHINGTON, July 9, 2019 — A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has found that President Donald Trump’s use of Twitter’s “block” feature against his critics violates the First Amendment because he uses his private Twitter account for official government business. The unanimous

Antitrust

At Technology Policy Institute Panel on AT&T/Time Warner, a Criticism of Trump and Law Enforcement

WASHINGTON, June 25, 2018 – The former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday sharply criticized the president and his Justice Department’s antitrust division for promoting certain outcomes in recent antitrust actions. At a Technology Policy Institute panel on the AT&T/Time Warner merge

FCC

Senate Democrats’ Vote Against Net Neutrality Repeal a ‘Political Tool,’ Charges TechFreedom

WASHINGTON, June 11, 2018 – Before the official date on which the Federal Communications Commission’s action changing net neutrality were to go into effect, conservative technology experts slammed a recent Senate vote to restore those Obama-era network neutrality protections “The [Congressional Revi

FCC

FCC Erases Net Neutrality Rules, Now Permits Internet Providers to Block and Throttle Consumers

WASHINGTON, December 14, 2017 – The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted 3-2, along party lines, to approve a proposal by Republican Chairman Ajit Pai repealing the “open internet” net neutrality rules classifying broadband internet service providers as common carriers. That leaves Am

DC Circuit

Democrats Are Mad as Hell About FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s Proposed Changes to Net Neutrality

WASHINGTON, December 7, 2017 — Tom Wheeler, the Federal Communications Commission chairman under President Obama, wasn’t coy in expressing his feelings about his replacement’s “abomination” of a plan to gut the open internet rules he put in place two-and-a-half years ago. “This is the culmination of