The broadband industry faces a problem it’s never really had before: it’s awash in federal taxpayer money. But questions remain as to how recipients should spend that money and what we should do when it runs out in the next few years. In the last COVID-19 response bill in late [...]
Last week, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law introduced draft legislation aimed at regulating “Big Tech” after a year-plus investigation of competition in digital markets. The legislative package largely stems from information gathered through witness testimony, documents, and interviews captured in the more than 500 page [...]
For those of us following the Epic v. Apple case, it was sometimes difficult to follow or immediately grasp the relevance of the meandering lines of questioning that covered a wide range of themes. Intermingled with all of the evidence that found its way into the record via testimony and [...]
Regular readers of this blog and listeners of ACT | The App Association’s podcast, Tech Swamp, are familiar with the DC rumblings around antitrust felt over the last Congress. Well, those rumblings are now reaching the magnitude of a minor earthquake; if the tremors before were only detectable on a [...]
For years now, ACT | The App Association has urged Congress to adopt a set of requirements that establishes net neutrality principles in statute. The debate came back to a head in 2017 as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) undid its classification of internet services as Title II, thus removing [...]