I perform policy research on issues like broadband internet, internet economics, internet regulation, cost recovery, radio spectrum, telecom policy, mobile cellular wireless technologies, 5G, regulation, network security, digital business models, rural broadband, universal service, universal connectivity, net neutrality, technology software platforms, and antitrust and competition.
Different policy audiences have different requirements for policy research, for example peer-review academic journals, policymakers, and business professionals. I publish for each of these audiences per their requirements and in their preferred channels. I publish in the academic, policy, and business domains. I also publish commentary here on this website.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released an essential report AFFORDABLE BROADBAND: FCC Could Improve Performance Goals and Measures, Consumer Outreach, and Fraud Risk Management, written by GAO Director of Infrastructure…
There is discussion now in policy circles is the notion of “fair share” and “fair contribution” to broadband networks. Let’s just say what everyone knows: nothing in life is fair….
Oak National Academy in United Kingdom launched in the early weeks of the pandemic in response to sudden school closures. Millions of children were at home, and most schools were…
The rail-labor drama has been on full display since June when twelve labor unions representing 115,000 workers were released from mediation. After many twists and turns, eight have ratified yet…
Reports and papers have emerged over the last year in the global debate for broadband fair cost recovery. Some reports, like that commissioned by the German government, reflect the need…
Strand Consult has followed the development of South Korea for more than two decades. In the early 2000s Strand Consult demonstrated how South Korea, not Japan as many believed, made…
Brendan Carr met with Taiwanese authorities for foreign, digital and telecom policy last week, the first Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner to do so in Taiwan. As the country accounts…
Europe lacks some €300 billion in investment to achieve next generation broadband goals. An accumulation of misguided EU telecom regulation has sent capital to more favorable investment regions, like the…
Low wage and service sector workers, some 50 million Americans, were hit particularly hard by closures lock downs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, Congress and the Federal Communications…
While thousands of lower-income California families struggle to deal with inflated rents and ballooning food and fuel prices, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is considering a wrong-minded policy change…
On August 26 the U.S. State Department announced the creation of an Ambassador-at-Large for the Arctic region. It’s the right move as geopolitical challenges in the world’s coldest region heats…
Why do you have such a big interest in the way companies charge for traffic on the internet and what you call “fair cost recovery”? CEO John Strand talks with…