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WPC's Technology & Telecom Project focuses on wireless regulations, access to broadband internet, wireline regulatory environment, open source issues, telecom regulations, video franchise reform, technology and privacy issues, and more.

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Eight Principles of Telecommunications Policy

Insider Online (Heritage Foundation) December 02, 2011 in In the News
Source: 
Insider Online (Heritage Foundation)
Date: 
November 29, 2011
Link: 
http://www.insideronline.org/summary.cfm?id=16427

Eight Principles of Telecommunications Policy

Nov. 29, 2011 in Publications
December 2011

Introduction

Today’s economy relies on information and communication moving rapidly and seamlessly across a wide variety of devices and mediums. The technology landscape continues to evolve quickly, and government regulators — both at the federal and state level — are looking at extending the existing regulatory environment to technologies that emerged decades after the initial regulatory mandates were enacted.

The Emergence of the Digital Precautionary Principle

Insider Online (Heritage Foundation) June 06, 2011 in In the News
Source: 
Insider Online (Heritage Foundation)
Date: 
June 2, 2011
Link: 
http://www.insideronline.org/summary.cfm?id=15305

WHO Cell Phone-Cancer Report Skips Science

Jun. 5, 2011 in Publications
By

Carl Gipson, Director, WPC's Technology and Telecommunications Project

, June 2011

RealClearScience published this column June 5, 2011.

WHO Cell Phone Report Skips Science, Raises Hysteria

June 01, 2011

Yesterday's press release by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (part of the World Health Organization) is once again fanning the flames of an issue that had been fading away: do cell phones cause brain tumors?

The Emergence of the Digital Precautionary Principle

May 27, 2011 in Publications
By

Carl Gipson, Director, WPC's Technology & Telecommunications Project

, June 2011

Introduction: From Laws toward Codes

S.F. Backs Away from Cell Phone Radiation Regulations

May 10, 2011

San Francisco, often the breeding ground for interesting public policy proposals, decided recently to back off its mandate that would have required retailers of cell phones to label them with radiation levels and pass out material explaining the level of SAR in each device (SAR= Specific Absorption Rate).

This has not been done anywhere else and faced stiff opposition from the wireless industry, which filed suit against the ordinance last year.

UK Gov't: Climate Change to Put WiFi/Telecom at Risk

May 09, 2011

A UK government report issued this week warns that climate change, in addition to threatening many different parts of everyday life, also threatens the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry.