January 31, 2014, 04:00 pm
Consumers paying broadcasters twice
By Steve Pociask
The cable TV monopoly is gone, replaced by rivalry among cable TV, telephone, satellite and new Internet-based providers, like Netflix and Hulu.
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January 30, 2014, 10:00 am
Sharing spectrum to fuel growth and opportunity
By Kevin Werbach
The spectrum auction will dramatically shape the information and communications environment for decades to come.
January 30, 2014, 08:00 am
A forward-looking trade agenda for the digital economy
By Victoria Espinel
The world now invests nearly $4 trillion a year on information and communications technologies.
January 29, 2014, 08:00 am
Time for more American dreaming
By Jamal Simmons
We must prepare our children for the jobs of the future that will require more skills and a willingness to keep adapting throughout their careers.
January 24, 2014, 12:00 pm
Congress must protect inventors from strong-arm tactics
By Jason Cassady
If you’re an inventor trying to get fair value for your patent today, you’re likely to find yourself targeted with the kind of threat Tony Soprano would have approved—“give us our cut, or we’ll put you out of business.”
January 22, 2014, 04:00 pm
Cybersecurity could be the next bipartisan breakthrough
By Nelson Peacock
The most optimistic Congressional observers (a rare breed in Washington) have dared express the view that the recently enacted two-year budget agreement may encourage representatives and senators of both political parties to come together to...
January 22, 2014, 02:00 pm
Here come the fuel cell vehicles
By Nihar Patel
Technology that will transform the way we power vehicles is closer than you think.
January 16, 2014, 04:29 pm
Economic growth relies on an invisible infrastructure
By George Schmitt
As Washington debates deficit reduction, politicians should consider how revisions to wireless spectrum policy could provide a cost-effective boost to economic growth while generating additional revenues for the Treasury.
January 16, 2014, 01:00 pm
Public safety needs a competitive wireless industry
By Charles L. Werner
We all need robust communications, and we need them all the more during emergencies.
January 16, 2014, 09:00 am
For 9-1-1 system, location is everything
By Nathan Lee
This week marks the sixth anniversary of my wife’s murder. In 2008, my wife Denise was kidnapped from our Florida home while watching our two young children. During the hours that followed, she was able to use the abductor's mobile phone to...
