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FCC Intensifies Crackdown on Illegal Robocalls with New Numbering Policies
By Blake Reed On March 26, 2026, the Federal Communications Commission unanimously adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) aimed at combating illegal robocalls by tightening controls on how telephone numbers are obtained and used. This latest effort focuses on the origination stage of…
FCC Adds Foreign-Made Routers to Covered List for National Security Reasons
By Blake Reed On March 23, 2026, the Federal Communications Commission took a significant step to strengthen cybersecurity by updating its covered list to include all consumer-grade routers produced in any foreign country. This move, announced by the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau,…
California Unions Fight AI Efficiency
By James Erwin Government workers and the unions that represent them are always in the business of making government more expensive. It is a self-evident truth that it is in their interest to inflate costs with boosted salaries, larded pensions, and excessive paid vacation. It makes sense, then, that they…
Rep. Richard Hudson Moves to Simplify Emergency Communications
By Nate Norris How can we improve emergency responses to save American lives? A subcommittee markup on January 15 sought to answer this question. The House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee discussed the Next Generations 9-1-1 Act, its implications, and how it will save American lives. Representative…
Digital Liberty Submits Comments to FCC on Next Generation Television Mandates
By Nate Norris Today, Digital Library led a coalition of 20 free market groups in submitting comments to the FCC. These comments urged the Commission to reject adoption mandates for Next Generation Television. With World War II-era regulation still constraining broadcasters, new regulation will not improve video accessibility. If…
BEAD funds should not subsidize ISPs forever
By James Erwin A bipartisan group of 14 senators is lobbying NTIA to let states keep the $20 billion in BEAD savings Administrator Arielle Roth has been able to find in the program. As we have argued before, this money should return to the taxpayer, and it certainly should not…
The AI moratorium is showing signs of life.
By James Erwin Reports of a federal moratorium preempting ill-considered state AI laws were greatly exaggerated. Yesterday the idea rose like a Phoenix from the ashes. What changed? Presidential leadership. President Trump endorsed a federal moratorium on AI regulation this past summer, shortly after a proposal by Senator Ted Cruz…
BEAD savings should go back to taxpayers
By James Erwin The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program, a provision of the Biden infrastructure bill, provided $42.5 billion in taxpayer funding for broadband expansion. The Commerce Department has announced significant savings of nearly half the program’s budget, $20 billion, due to reforms – money that should…
Some Republican Senators want to renege on their reconciliation spectrum deal
By James Erwin The Big Beautiful Bill’s spectrum provisions were a historic victory for free market telecommunications policy. A record 800 MHz of spectrum was mandated for auction, the largest pipeline ever. But it could all be for naught if a provision of the Senate-passed National Defense Authorization Act…
The CCP is Targeting American Cellular Infrastructure
By Rohan Naval In recent weeks, federal law enforcement has dismantled a clandestine “SIM farm” operation in the New York City area. This included a distributed setup of SIM-bank servers, handsets, and hundreds of thousands of physical SIMs located within roughly 35 miles of the U.N. General Assembly. Officials…