New Orleans Life, work, and the world are full of mysteries, but after years of hitting my head against various walls, I’m finally connecting the dots in trying to understand the peculiar responses we sometimes get in trying to change public policies and private pricing strategies. Remittances are a prime example. Talking last week to …
Tag: FCC
Neoliberal FCC Half-Step to Low Income Access to the Internet
New Orleans It would be nice to read the report of a proposal by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and embrace it with open arms and a wide smile. After all even a small step forward in bridging the digital divide is important, but this will be a half-step at that, and it’s easy to …
Comcast’s Internet Essentials and Lousy Customer Service Brought Them Down, Too
Austin The failure of Comcast’s monopoly-merger mania would almost be Biblical in the “pride cometh before a fall” sense if it were not so predictable, and if, we, and thankfully a whole lot of other people in a whole lot of other places, had not repeatedly tried to tell them so and warn …