Derek oversees Free Press’ research and policy analysis. He has written extensively on a wide range of media and technology issues, and regularly testifies before Congress and the FCC. His reports have examined consolidation in the broadcast television industry, the economics of the pay-TV market, the state of domestic broadband competition, the role of the Universal Service Fund and the lack of female and minority media ownership. Derek holds a master's degree in public policy from the Goldman School at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received the 2006 Smolensky Prize for Outstanding Advanced Policy Analysis. He is the lead author of the book Changing Media: Public Interest Policies for the Digital Age.
Expert Analysis
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Here are some basic facts to keep in mind as legislation to restore Net Neutrality moves ahead in Congress.
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A rural ISP’s CEO told Congress that Title II and Net Neutrality stopped his network investments. That’s not true. Here we break it down.
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This deal would harm people of color and all communities and constituencies that rely on having more affordable and open wireless options.
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AT&T is trying to sucker Congress into giving it a mammoth tax break that would cost the rest of us.
News
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The study indicates that FCC Chairman Pai’s claims that Net Neutrality depressed investment were patently false.
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If the merger goes forward, it would leave the United States with only three viable nationwide wireless-service providers.
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Internet service providers will now have to give the FCC detailed geospatial maps of their coverage areas, rather than just covered census blocks.
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ISPs will have to submit geospatial maps of broadband service areas.
From the Policy Library
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FCC Filing & Correspondence
Free Press asserts that such a cap would undermine the goal of achieving universal service, harming low-income people and people of color in particular.
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FCC Filing & Correspondence
Free Press urges the FCC to keep making the broadband data it collects available to researchers and the broader public.
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Free Press' report debunks FCC Chairman Pai's claims that the FCC's 2015 Open Internet Order has harmed investment.
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This Free Press report finds that communities of color are on the wrong side of the digital divide in ways that income differences alone do not explain.
