Author and broadband activist Susan Crawford emphasized her...
Author and broadband activist Susan Crawford emphasized her message of faster bandwidth, during an event with the Code for America Peer Network Monday. Code for America is intended to connect local governments. Crawford, a law professor at the Yeshiva University…
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Cardozo School of Law and former White House telecom adviser, criticized what she considers to be a lack of competition in the telecom world, split between cable companies on the one hand and a duopoly of wireless companies. “There’s nothing evil about any of this,” she said. “It’s not bad, it’s not evil.” But she said when consolidation is possible, competition is impossible. She advocated for certain regulatory oversight, and said providers need to be made to connect with one another. Her presentation advocated for communities’ freedom to build their own broadband networks and showed the many states that have restricted that ability. “We need to preempt those barriers,” she said. U.S. politicians need to address these challenges, which should become a greater part of the country’s dialogue, said Crawford: “I'm hoping Code for America can play an important role.”