Internet Architecture and Innovation, December 16, 2010
By Barbara van Schewick

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is wrong to thing that we can wait and see how the wireless ecosystem evolves before protecting it. Waiting to extend meaningful protections to wireless will allow networking technologies to evolve in discriminatory ways that may be difficult to change later on. And access fees will seriously stymie innovators and startups, and they may impose serious collateral damage on values like free speech by making it more difficult for individuals or non-profit groups to be heard or to find an audience for their creative works.

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