A consortium of satellite service providers have proposed to repurpose by private sale a large portion of a 500 MHz swath of mid-band spectrum known as the C-Band. As is common, the plan faces some resistance, with much of the opposition preferring a public auction rather than a private sale. In...

Fees levied by local franchise authorities on cable television operators are limited to a statutory five-percent cap, though franchise authorities often skirt that maximum levy by demanding additional monetary and in-kind concessions from cable operators. The Federal Communications Commission...

Over the past two decades, digital piracy has wreaked havoc on the music industry, with industry revenues falling over 60% between 1999 and 2009. Despite rising income from streaming services, total revenues (in real dollars) today remain well-below their historic peaks. Adding misery to an...

This Article presents a legal and economic framework for analyzing municipal broadband. Economics predicts, and the evidence confirms, that municipal broadband is in almost all scenarios subsidized entry, covering capital costs and losses with tax dollars and other internal transfers....

We offer a simple analysis of a digital platform’s incentives to bias sales toward its own products and services. The analysis reveals that a digital platform is less biased - not more biased - in the promotion of its own products and services relative to online sellers that do not permit...

America has spent billions trying to close the Digital Divide, but adoption disparities along many dimensions persist. The COVID pandemic has rekindled the strong interest in broadband adoption, with many in Congress now proposing to spend billions more to shrink the adoption gap. In this POLICY...