by Bartlett Cleland | Jul 18, 2025 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Broadband, Emerging Technologies, IEI post, Wireless
The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division reignited spectrum policy debates with its statement approving T-Mobile’s purchase of UScellular’s wireless operations. The real headline wasn’t the approval itself, even despite the unrelated...
by Bartlett Cleland | Jul 8, 2025 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Broadband, Emerging Technologies, IEI post, Telecommunications
Citizens Broadband Radio Service, or CBRS for short, sounds like another buzzy acronym from Washington, but don’t be fooled. The CBRS is one of the most successful free market, principled telecom policies of which you’ve never heard. It’s a prime...
by Bartlett Cleland | May 2, 2025 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Broadband, IEI post, Telecommunications
The reconciliation bill Congressional Republicans are currently drafting could be more than just a fulfillment of President Trump’s promises to extend tax cuts and cut spending. Congress also has the opportunity to unleash a new era of American...
by Bartlett Cleland | Apr 9, 2025 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, IEI post, Regulation, Wireless
As the goals and priorities of this new Congress and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) become more apparent, policymakers would be wise to prominently feature voters’ call for public policies that promote innovation, deregulation, affordability, and economic...
by Bartlett Cleland | Dec 17, 2024 | Competitiveness, Emerging Technologies, IEI post, Taxes & Budget
With a month to go, and only a week or so until Christmas, the Biden administration is checking its winners and losers list, and delivering cash packages as fast as it can. Welcome to the season of Bidenomics at the speed of Donner and Blitzen. Bidenomics was peddled...
by Bartlett Cleland | Nov 17, 2024 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, E-Government, IEI post, Security
The Pentagon’s current Authority to Operate (ATO) process poses a significant risk to the innovations our military needs. Among the three letter alphabet soup acronyms of the Federal government there’s one which stands out almost exclusively as perpetually problematic...
by Bartlett Cleland | May 10, 2024 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Broadband, Competitiveness, Emerging Technologies, IEI post, Regulation
As May graduations give way to family summer vacations millions will hit the road to crisscross our sprawling country. Down those same stretches of vacationer crowded highways are millions of utility poles which serve as home to electric, traditional phone and...
by Bartlett Cleland | Mar 7, 2024 | Competitiveness, Ecosystem, Emerging Technologies, Regulation, Reports & Briefings, Wireless
For a long time, mass entertainment was various forms of media that the public consumed passively. But the rise of the internet did not just disintermediate the entertainment industries we knew—changing the ways movies, music, and news were packaged and delivered—it...
by Bartlett Cleland | Mar 7, 2024 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Broadband, Competitiveness, Emerging Technologies, IEI post, Regulation
Our federal deficit is exploding, and America’s financial house is in disarray. The country’s borrowing costs are at their highest level in over 20 years, and the national debt has surpassed $34 trillion for the first in history. In this environment, implementing...
by Bartlett Cleland | Feb 15, 2024 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, Ecosystem, Online Speech, Privacy, Security
Both state and federal legislators are actively pushing legislation designed to “protect our children online.” Of course, there is already a federal Children’s Online Privacy Act that regulates the online collection of personal information about children under 13...
by Bartlett Cleland | Feb 1, 2024 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, IEI post, Regulation, Taxes & Budget
Sports gaming is a big business, with the potential for over $100 billion in annual revenue worldwide. As this massive entertainment industry continues to grow, a battle is underway between top companies over what kinds of gaming products should be allowed. The...
by Bartlett Cleland | Feb 1, 2024 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, Emerging Technologies, Healthcare Innovation, IEI post
Last year, many statehouses across the country looked to address a growing consumer issue broadly known as “right to repair.” Now with legislative sessions kicking off in more than 40 states across the country, this policy looks like it will continue to stay at the...
by Bartlett Cleland | Jan 17, 2024 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, Emerging Technologies, IEI post, Privacy
The Federal Trade Commission is fast becoming a living case study in ideological overreach. Undaunted by a string of embarrassing court losses and plummeting morale among career staffers, the agency keeps grasping at the most slender reeds of legal theories and...
by Bartlett Cleland | Dec 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
With good reason, we are encouraged to understand history, but for some, perhaps, the temptation to repeat past mistakes is just too great. The ancient Greek philosopher Plato described sophists, paid philosophers often involved in public works, as those who twisted...
by Bartlett Cleland | Dec 7, 2023 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Emerging Technologies, IEI post, IT & Data Innovation, Wireless
Air pollution from Canadian wildfires is just one of the problems we face from our neighbor to the north. A Canadian company weaponizing intellectual property rights could do major damage to the U.S. tech sector. Bell Northern Research has been around since the 1970s,...
by Bartlett Cleland | Dec 7, 2023 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, IEI post
Fantasy sports is an industry that’s growing like almost no other. It’s estimated to be a $28 billion market in 2023 and set to grow to more than $50 billion by 2028. Nearly 20% of Americans age 18+ participate in fantasy sports. 20%! As with all growing industries,...
by Bartlett Cleland | Sep 8, 2023 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Broadband, Competitiveness, IEI post
IEI Signs Coalition Letter Read the Full Coalition Letter...
by Bartlett Cleland | Sep 8, 2023 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Broadband, IEI post
Usage based billing (UBB), also referred to as pay as you go, pay-per-unit, or metered pricing, amongst others, is a billing model used across a variety of industries that charges users based on what they actually use instead of a fixed rate that is the same for...
by Bartlett Cleland | Aug 24, 2023 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Broadband, Competitiveness, Emerging Technologies, IEI post, Online Speech, Telecommunications, Wireless
China has garnered much attention given its position as a major economic competitor to the United States, and specifically as a competitor in telecommunications, technology and innovation. The national security implications for the use of Chinese technology have also...
by Bartlett Cleland | Jun 28, 2023 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, IEI post, Regulation
A variety of legislative proposals across the country attempt to limit “children’s” or minors’ ability to be online, to see certain content or contribute content, or to set up user accounts. Most enforce this by targeting the technology with heavy fines if the...
by Bartlett Cleland | Jun 28, 2023 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, IEI post, Regulation
In Star Trek, Captain Kirk communicates to his allies and enemies via a giant video wall on his space ship’s holodeck. Decades ago, those science fiction fantasy technologies seemed far fetched, but apps like Zoom and Apple’s Facetime have made real-time video chat a...
by Bartlett Cleland | Jun 28, 2023 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, IEI post, Telecommunications, Wireless
The IPI policy nerd holiday calendar may look a bit different than yours but days like World Wi-Fi Day, which is June 20th, and World IP Day, April 26th of every year, should be part of your awareness, too. Why? These two days celebrate two of the fundamental building...
by Bartlett Cleland | Jun 14, 2023 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Broadband, Competitiveness, IEI post, Regulation
The refrain that very little gets done in Washington is now common, likely because it is so observably true. Issues of importance to the country seem to be perpetuated rather than solved, and often not even addressed. Instead, Congress distracts itself with reality...
by Bartlett Cleland | Dec 15, 2022 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Broadband, Competitiveness, IEI post, Online Speech, Telecommunications, Wireless
Tomorrow the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) auction authority will expire. Despite its obvious importance, for US global competitiveness and consumers, Congress extended the authority only a couple months when it was about to expireearly this fall. Instead...
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