Gigi Sohn

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Gigi Sohn is a Distinguished Fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy and a Benton Senior Fellow & Public Advocate. She is the host of the "Tech on the Rocks Podcast." Gigi sits on the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Gigi is one of the nation’s leading public advocates for open, affordable and democratic communications networks. For thirty years, Gigi has worked across the country to defend and preserve the fundamental competition and innovation policies that have made broadband Internet access more ubiquitous, competitive, affordable, open and protective of user privacy. Most recently,…

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Axios: 1 big thing: In 2020, tech policy fights move to the states

The tech industry's most consequential policy fights in 2020 will play out in the states, not Washington, as Axios' Kim Hart and Margaret Harding McGill report. The big picture: Momentum on a range of tech issues, from governing online privacy to regulating the gig economy, has stalled in D.C. as impeachment…

Posted on January 2, 2020January 7, 2020 by Kip Roderick

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TechDirt: DOJ Antitrust Boss Delrahim Ignored Hard Data As He Rubber Stamped T-Mobile Merger

Technically, the head of the DOJ's antitrust division, Makan Delrahim, is supposed to enforce antitrust law and derail harmful monopolies when they arise. But that's certainly not what's happening with the DOJ review of T-Mobile's $26 billion merger with Sprint, which antitrust experts (and even the DOJ's own economists) have repeatedly…

Posted on December 30, 2019January 7, 2020 by Kip Roderick

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CNET: Why flawed broadband speed tests have devastating consequences

The question of just how fast your home internet service is seems pretty straightforward. Unfortunately, how the broadband industry gets at the answer is messy and complicated, and over the last few weeks, that's caused controversy. On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal published an investigative article accusing several broadband companies, including AT&T,…

Posted on December 14, 2019December 16, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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The Washington Post: Net neutrality supporters ask court to reconsider ruling that upheld FCC repeal

The fight to reinstate net neutrality rules could return to federal court, if consumer groups and tech companies including Mozilla get their way. The maker of the Firefox Web browser joined other tech firms and public-interest advocates to fire their latest salvo Friday: They asked a panel of judges to…

Posted on December 13, 2019December 16, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Washington Examiner: New rash of privacy bills working its way through the Senate

The floodgates have opened for consumer privacy bills in Congress, with the latest legislation from four Democratic senators creating a broad set of new privacy rights. The Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act, or COPRA, introduced in late November, won praise from several privacy advocates. The bill gives U.S. consumers the right to…

Posted on December 5, 2019December 13, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Marketplace: 5G could change the world. 5G is also marketing hype.

The Federal Communications Commission announced this week a $9 billion subsidy program to bring 5G to rural parts of the country, coinciding with T-Mobile’s 5G nationwide rollout. T-Mobile is advertising its 5G as having “ultra wideband … with massive capacity … and ultrafast speeds,” which sounds incredible. Maybe too incredible. A T-Mobile…

Posted on December 5, 2019December 6, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Vice Motherboard: FCC Says Wireless Carriers Lie About Coverage 40% of the Time

A new FCC study confirms what most people already knew: when it comes to wireless coverage maps, your mobile carrier is often lying to you. If you head to any major wireless carrier website, you’ll be inundated with claims of coast to coast, uniform availability of wireless broadband. But, as…

Posted on December 5, 2019December 13, 2019 by Gigi Sohn

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Reuters: Huawei mounts legal challenge against FCC over rural carrier customers

The FCC last month voted unanimously to designate Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and peer ZTE Corp as national security risks, barring their U.S. rural carrier customers from tapping an $8.5 billion government fund to purchase Huawei or ZTE telecommunications equipment. Huawei filed a petition Thursday with the Fifth Circuit Court…

Posted on December 4, 2019December 6, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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National Journal: Gigi Sohn named to NJ50 list of 50 People Changing the Game in Washington.

Throughout her 30 years in telecommunications and technology policy, Gigi Sohn has worn many hats—a telecom lawyer, a progressive advocate, a top aide at the Federal Communications Commission, an academic. But if there’s one thread uniting the career of a woman widely viewed as the godmother of progressive tech policy…

Posted on December 2, 2019December 2, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Reuters: U.S. Justice Department closes antitrust probe over wireless carrier-switching technology

The Justice Department has closed an antitrust investigation into a trade group that includes Verizon and AT&T among its members and which had been criticized for making it harder for consumers to switch carriers. In a letter to the GSM Association, which sets standards on eSIM mobile technology and includes…

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