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  • 6 days ago | broadbandbreakfast.com | Roslyn Layton

    Exploding internet traffic strains broadband providers globally, making it hard to recover network investment costs. U.S. policymakers aim to boost broadband investment while keeping prices low, but Big Tech firms (Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, TikTok, and Netflix) benefit from growing network capacity without contributing financially to recover the costs they create. A bipartisan group of lawmakers has reintroduced the Lowering Broadband Costs for Consumers Act of 2025 (S.

  • 3 weeks ago | warontherocks.com | Roslyn Layton

    For over a decade, a contentious policy struggle has simmered in the United States over the allocation of radio spectrum — a resource as critical to modern warfare as it is to economic prosperity. Authors in these pages have observed how the electromagnetic spectrum underpins military operations, from communication and navigation to targeting and intelligence, while its strategic importance has only grown with innovations like Starlink’s resilience in Ukraine.

  • 1 month ago | theregreview.org | Roslyn Layton

    The Transportation Department’s labor policies impede necessary safety reforms. A longstanding shortage of air traffic controllers, which a Saturday Seminar in The Regulatory Review recently explored, presents a well-known challenge to the effectiveness of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s safety regulations. Less well-known or understood, however, is how labor regulation at the Transportation Department could exacerbate safety challenges in aviation, freight rail, and other industries.

  • 1 month ago | thescif.org | Roslyn Layton |NSI Fellow

    The SCIF is the blog of the National Security Institute at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School which provides analysis and opinion from NSI’s Experts on the real national security issues facing policymakers. Follow publicationBy Roslyn Layton, PhD, NSI FellowUnlocking underutilized radio spectrum — the critical resource wireless communication, represents a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity for the U.S. economy.

  • 1 month ago | dcjournal.com | Roslyn Layton

    Join the discussion titled “Broadband Subsidy Programs – Here Today, Gone Tomorrow” on Little Nuggets of Tech and Telecom hosted by the Georgetown Center for Public Policy on Wednesday, March 26 at 12pm eastern. The digital economy stands as a pillar of American strength, injecting an estimated $5 trillion into the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) through hardware, software, and services. These sectors consistently outpace the broader economy, providing a vital boost during turbulent times.

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Roslyn Layton, PhD
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