February 2017

Last December the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), led by former Chairman Tom Wheeler, implemented its 2016 Lifeline Modernization Order. The order paved the way for qualifying low-income households to apply their subsidy towards phone or broadband service– a measure that 44 of our mayors wrote in support of to the FCC in December 2015. More […]

Originally posted by Dr. Robert Wack, City Council President, Westminster, MD on LinkedIn. Reprinted with permission.    Back in 2009, Derek Slater and Tim Wu published an article with an interesting thesis:  the capital expenditure barrier hindering fiber to the premises build out could be overcome by private, shared ownership, like a condominium, of the last