Technology

The National Broadband Plan presented to Congress on Tuesday by the Federal Communications Commission aims to connect every U.S. household to the fastest broadband as soon as possible, a goal which the agency’s staff estimates could cost $350 billion. Much of that investment will have to come from private industry, agency officials have conceded. This month, the Discovery Institute conducted Read More ›

FULL REPORT (PDF) SUMMARY In 1985, the Illinois General Assembly declared that “competition should be pursued as a substitute for regulation,” delivering new technologies, improved service quality, choice among telecommunications providers and ultimately lower prices for consumers. The goal of the 1985 act, which was to open the market to competition, has been achieved, but not the task of ensuring Read More ›

Under Chairman Julius Genachowski, Al Gore’s old friends at the Federal Communications Commission are out to reinvent the Internet. In the name of a bogus crisis in broadband deployment, the FCC is today lathering on an array of network stimuli and subsidies as part of a new “National Broadband Plan” that will transform this current font of U.S. economic growth Read More ›

This article, published by the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: The Gilder view is, “I always say don’t solve problems. When you solve problems you end up feeding your failures, starving your strengths and creating a costly mediocrity. Don’t solve problems. Pursue opportunities.” The rest of the article can be found here.

Legacy utility regulation threatens new technological opportunities and economic efficiencies which, according to others, promise a direct economic stimulus of at least $3.3 billion in Georgia over the next five years in the form of lower prices for voice services, plus an additional $3.9 billion in economic impact annually from increased broadband availability and use – including over 70,000 new jobs per year.

This article, published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, references Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: That windfall will come in a few ways, according to tech guru George Gilder, whose 2000 book “Telecosm” foresaw the past decade’s communications technology revolution, and who was in Atlanta Thursday to talk about tech’s future. The rest of the article can be found here.