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“FCC Lifeline Program: Will the Revamp Solve the Fraud?,” Web Pro News, Feb. 12, 2012. Larry is interviewed on the reform of the Lifeline program and the FCC’s efforts to transform it without authority from Congress into a broadband subsidy. |
US News/Lifeline
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“FCC Wants $25 Million for Cell Phone Subsidy Program ‘Fraught with Fraud’,” U.S. News and World Report, Feb. 8, 2012. Larry is quoted at length in this U.S. News story on the FCC’s efforts to reform the Lifeline program, universally regarded as out-of-control and characterized by waste, abuse, and fraud. |
TC/BB
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“Larry Downes: Why Best Buy is Going out of Business (Not so Gradually),” TechCrunch TV, Feb. 7, 2012. Andrew Keen and Larry discuss the future of retailing, and what the spread of Larry’s Best Buy articles say about information flow in the digital age.
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Keen/SOPA
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“SOPA: Mob Rule or Direct Democracy,” TechCrunch TV, Feb. 6, 2012. Larry speaks with TechCrunch’s Andrew Keen on the fight to stop SOPA, and what it means for the future of Internet activism.
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Heartland/Auctions
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“Larry Downes: the Need for Fair and Open Spectrum Auctions,” The Heartland Institute, Feb. 2, 2012. On this podcast with Heartland editor Bruce Walker, Larry explains the risk to innovation of letting the FCC continue its quixotic practice of picking winners and losers in designing spectrum auctions and burdening licenses with quickly-outdated conditions. |
Forbes/Hundt
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“For Spectrum, We Need Fair and Open Auctions, not Professional Wrestling,” Forbes, Feb. 1, 2012. Larry takes on former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt in arguing for pending House legislation on new spectrum auctions, pointing out how the FCC has abused previous “flexibility” to pick winners and losers with little rhyme or reason. |
