The Federal Communications Commission’s Universal Service Fund funding model is “unsustainable.” So argues economist Jim Prieger in a white paper for DPI examining eight different models for funding the Fund. Relying on the optimal taxation literature, he explains: The status quo is horrendously inefficient, with consumers bearing an excess burden of $2.1 billion, or about […]| Digital Progress Institute
DPI President Joel Thayer joins Zephyr Teachout to explain how the Supreme Court is chipping away at Big Tech’s overreading of the First Amendment: “While we write from opposite ends of the political…| Digital Progress Institute
In the Delete, Delete, Delete proceeding, the FCC has asked the public to identify unnecessary regulations that deter investment, innovation, and efficiency in the communications space. In these comments, DPI explains to the Commission the five tasks it must tackle if it is to accelerate the IP Transition: ending TDM interconnection mandates, terminating the intercarrier […]| Digital Progress Institute
In the Delete, Delete, Delete proceeding, the FCC has asked the public to identify unnecessary regulations that deter investment, innovation, and efficiency in the communications space. In these comments, DPI identifies a host of needless certifications and reporting obligations for the Commission to terminate.| Digital Progress Institute
China has surreptitiously invaded our markets in almost every conceivable way. With the promise of cheap labor, Beijing stole American intellectual property. With the promise of inexpensive equipment, it took control of multiple U.S. routers, backhauls, cell sites and mobile devices. With the promise of cheap laughs, it has captured and poisoned our children’s minds […]| Digital Progress Institute