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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Bloomberg Radio: U.S. Carriers Resistant to Cybersecurity Mandates.

Gigi Sohn, Fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center Institute for Technology Law and Policy, joined Bryan Curtis and Juliette Saly on Daybreak Asia. She explains why she feels security concerns around networks featuring Huawei equipment are real, whether there are ways to mitigate risks and why carriers are reluctant…

Posted on February 21, 2019February 25, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Vice-Motherboard: FCC Says Gutting ISP Oversight Was Great For Broadband.

Ajit Pai's FCC insists that ignoring consumers and gutting oversight of major ISPs dramatically boosted network investment. Reality suggests something else entirely. The FCC this week proclaimed that broadband connectivity saw unprecedented growth last year thanks to agency policies like killing net neutrality. The problem? That doesn’t appear to be…

Posted on February 21, 2019February 25, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Bloomberg: Rift Between U.S. and European Carriers Opens Over Huawei.

A group representing top U.S. mobile service providers disagreed with European and Asian counterparts over alleged security threats from Chinese equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. ahead of a conference that will highlight a U.S.-Europe divide on the issue. A Feb. 14 release from GSMA, a London-based wireless industry group, urged European lawmakers not to ban…

Posted on February 19, 2019February 20, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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The Wall Street Journal: Partisan Rift Threatens Federal Data-Privacy Efforts.

Silicon Valley and GOP lawmakers want a national standard that would override state regulations but are facing pushback from Democrats. Congress set the stage last year to pass a sweeping consumer data-privacy law in 2019, but prospects for legislation are dimming amid sharpening divides among lawmakers over how far the…

Posted on February 17, 2019February 25, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Bloomberg TV: Why Lawmakers Are Wary of T-Mobile, Sprint Mega Deal.

U.S. lawmakers criticized T-Mobile US Inc.'s proposed $26.5 billion purchase of Sprint Corp. during a hearing Wednesday on Capitol Hill. Gigi Sohn, Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy distinguished fellow, and Bloomberg's Todd Shields discuss on "Bloomberg Technology." Video at Bloomberg TV.

Posted on February 13, 2019February 25, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Penn Law Women’s Association Dinner: Flexibility, Humility, Connectivity: Three Ingredients for a Successful Career.

When I attended Penn Law from 1983-1986, it was a very different place. Biddle Law Library was located in what is now called Silverman Hall, and man, were those stacks dark and dusty! It was nothing like the open and airy Biddle of today. 1L classes were held in the…

Posted on February 7, 2019February 25, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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The Hill: Ex-FCC counselor says Mozilla suit could lead to reinstatement of Obama-era net neutrality rules

A former counselor to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman under President Obama told Hill.TV's "Rising" on Monday that a court case challenging the FCC's decision under President Trump to repeal its net neutrality rules could result in the reinstatement of the former rules. "If this prevails in the court, yes, the 2015…

Posted on February 4, 2019February 4, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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The Hill: Ex-FCC counselor says the agency ‘abdicated’ its public safety role.

A former counselor to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman under President Obama said on Monday that the agency under President Trump "abdicated" its role in public safety, citing connectivity issues during last year's massive California wildfires. "Verizon was throttling the Santa Clara Fire Department's broadband, and there was eight months of communication between…

Posted on February 4, 2019February 13, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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The Verge: What to expect from today’s big net neutrality court hearing.

Oral arguments will begin today for one of the most important cases in internet law history. The case will be heard in a Washington, DC courtroom, as a group of net neutrality defenders squares off with the Federal Communications Commission in a legal battle to decide the rules of the…

Posted on January 31, 2019February 1, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Slate: Today is a Huge Day in the Fight to Restore Net Neutrality.

The best remaining chance for restoring net neutrality has a key day in court Friday, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a lawsuit to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s 2017 repeal of the open-internet rules. As of right now, there’s…

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