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Report: Altering law benefits state

This article, published by The Advocate, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Hance Haney: … Hance Haney, director of technology and democracy project for the Discovery Institute, a Seattle think tank, said by removing the carrier of last resort provision, AT&T won’t bear the cost of maintaining existing technology. The rest of the article can be found here.

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Kentucky Telecom Law Needs Update

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The Magician’s Twin

In this wide-ranging book of essays edited by John G. West, contemporary writers probe Lewis’s warnings about the dehumanizing impact of scientism on ethics, politics, faith, reason, and science itself. Issues explored include Lewis’s views on bioethics, eugenics, evolution, intelligent design, and what he called “scientocracy.” Read More ›

Telecom Consumers Demand

Earlier this month, the Pew Research Center reported that, of the 55 percent of cellphone owners who use their phones to go online, 77 percent say they experience slow download speeds that prevent things from loading as quickly as they would like. The survey also showed that 72 percent of cellphone users experience dropped calls. Mobile-service providers are deploying more Read More ›

Spectrum Crunch Fast Approaching

Apple’s recent release of the iPad 3 continues a trend toward more powerful and useful wireless devices that consume a lot more bandwidth.  The number of mobile-connected tablets tripled last year to 34 million, according to Cisco.  The average tablet generated 3.4 times more mobile data traffic than the average smartphone, which generated 35 times more traffic than a typical Read More ›