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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…

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…

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…

Restoring Free Speech to the Airwaves and Internet

By James Erwin and Rohan Naval Senator Ted Cruz, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee  announced an October 8th hearing on the issue of “jawboning” and free speech. The Commerce Committee released a report on jawboning in conjunction with the hearing, and Sen. Cruz plans to…

USF Announces Another Rate Hike for Q4 2025 

By Rohan Naval Today, the Federal Communications Commission announced yet another Universal Service Fund rate hike for Q4 2025. In what is becoming a quarterly ritual for the overstretched $8 billion program, the FCC increased the mandatory fee on phone bills to a whopping 38.1 percent. Nearly four of…

The Senate misses its moment on AI, but the fight is far from over

By James Erwin The U.S. is currently winning the artificial intelligence race with China, just barely. President Trump has articulated a vision for American dominance of AI, but the Senate has already undermined this goal by stripping a much-needed moratorium on state AI regulation from One Big, Beautiful Bill.

Zuckerberg Releases Optimistic Statement on Superintelligence

By Nathan Seibert Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a statement on Wednesday articulating an optimistic vision on the future of superintelligence. Zuckerberg looked to the trend of past human innovation and sheds light on Meta’s philosophy regarding superintelligence. This statement was the latest attempt for Meta…

Digital Liberty Submits Comments to FCC on Low Earth Orbit Satellites

By Nathan Seibert On Monday night Digital Liberty submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission to advocate for modernizing spectrum allocation for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. This pro-growth policy will lead to innovation that benefits consumers and keeps American industry ahead of global competitors.

Senate Passes Recissions Package to Cut NPR and PBS Funding

By Nathan Seibert In a Thursday night vote-a-rama, the Senate voted to cut $1.1 billion in funding for NPR and PBS in a recission package totaling $9 billion in spending cuts. The Senate passed the package with a vote of 51-48. Senators Collins and Murkowski were the…