New America Foundation has gone so far as to offer the FCC its own prototype of a Schumer Box, applied to broadband. ... Original Article
October 20, 2009
The New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute suggested last week the government require a broadband disclosure sticker that would let consumers ...
On the other side are public interest groups and think tanks like the New America Foundation, Public Knowledge, and the Media Access Project. ...
September 27, 2009
... poorest--must pay outrageous collect call charges," wrote Public Knowledge, the New America Foundation, Reclaim the Media, and five other groups. ...
July 15, 2009
As New America's Michael Calabrese puts it, "the vast majority of frequency bands are not being used in most locations and at most times."
The idea is right out of the New America Foundation's playbook. The think tank has been pushing a similar idea for months; in an issue brief released in January 2009, authors Ben Lennett and Sascha Meinrath (who advised the Obama campaign on some tech ...
"We are at the end of the era of deregulation," Columbia University professor Tim Wu told the crowd as they explored the contents of their conference box lunches. They probably already figured as much, since they had just finished listening to interim ...
That lack of clarity has already prompted some criticism, or at least open skepticism, from people like New America's Sascha Meinrath, who helped advise the Obama campaign on tech issues. "Behind closed doors, just about everyone I've talked with—right ...
Robb Topolski, the man who helped to bring to light Comcast's throttling of P2P uploads, has a new job: Chief Technologist of the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation. OTI is the New America unit headed by Sascha Meinrath, and it was instrumental in partnering with Google to create the Measurement Lab project...Original article
Both Skype and professor Tim Wu, who have pushed hard for wireless net neutrality in the US, would be pleased with the request, though regulators have so far generally allowed wireless networks more leeway when it comes to network management.
