The call for more wireless spectrum is growing larger now more than ever.  As more and more people begin to utilize smart phones, tablets and other devices that rely on broadband connections, the current infrastructure will slow to a crawl.  As it stands right now, there are now more wireless subscribers in the US than [...]

ACI President Steve Pociask is among those experts quoted in a San Jose Mercury article “Google’s Moves Raise Questions about ‘Do No Evil” Motto” (published March 12, 2012 and available online).

Professor Joseph P. Fuhr Jr. and Dr. Larry F. Darby published an article in the Media Law & Policy Journal of the New York Law School — Innovation and National Broadband Policies: Facts, Fiction and Unanswered Questions in the Net Neutrality Debate.

Now more than ever, the Internet is a place where many feel the need to be vigilant about protecting their personal information.  As you navigate the web, you’re often tracked and your information is captured for both benign and nefarious purposes. Both types, however, should make the average user concerned.  On the one hand, malicious [...]

Demand for high speed mobile data applications is strong enough to support ballooning cellular bills, and strong enough for carriers to hobble subscribers who take “unlimited data” seriously.   A cure for high prices and churlish carrier behavior is more spectrum, but that has been elusive. Consumers used to exchange physical copies of their favorite photos, [...]

This op-ed discusses the need for reforming Florida’s CAT Fund and can be read here.

In 1982, a federal court split up the old Bell System to help MCI and Sprint compete.  The breakup was followed by three decades of harsh regulations at the federal and state levels that carved away incumbent local exchange carriers’ (ILECs) competitive advantages against Cable TV Telephony rivals or Competing Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs).  Today [...]

Fox News published an online commentary on March 1st written by Steve Pociask from the American Consumer Institute.  The article discusses Google’s latest privacy changes and ongoing consumer privacy risks.  The article can be read by clicking here.

Twenty years ago, your only option for buying a book or a getting a CD of your favorite music was to head to a Borders or Best Buy. You would find what you were looking for, take it to the counter, pay for it, and that would be the end of it. No complications. Today, [...]

Most Internet consumers know when they visit a website, it may deposit a “cookie” on their computer – to beneficially adjust how they are treated on return visits.  The cookie may avoid the visitor needing to sign in again, or may avoid presenting content the visitor has already seen.   But some cookie depositors have more [...]