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Benton Institute For Broadband Society Looks At Project 2025

Bonisiwe Shabane
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benton institute for broadband society looks at project 2025

A new presidential administration will take office in January 2025, ushering in a new era at the Federal Communications Commission. Thanks to Project 2025, we have a unique ability to predict what this will mean for broadband regulation. Project 2025’s 900-page book—the Mandate for Leadership—is a “menu of policy suggestions” from and for American conservative leaders produced by a group of conservative organizations and spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think... The BBC described the Mandate for Leadership as a conservative policy “wish list." A leader with Project 20205 has expressed optimism about working with this incoming administration. The FCC chapter of the Mandate for Leadership, penned by conservative FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, covers goals for broadband under a new administration. If Trump enacts these regulatory suggestions, Project 2025 will usher in a new era of wild West-style deregulation for broadband.

The prescriptions for broadband policy follow two major themes: cut down on regulation, and spend fewer taxpayer dollars. Deregulation is a major theme of the broadband policy directives included in Mandate for Leadership. Regulation, according to the Mandate for Leadership, blocks the “vital” competition that increases connectivity (p. 857). Mandate for Leadership recommends that the next Republican administration begin a “serious top-to-bottom review of [FCC] regulations” and rescind those the administration deem “overly cumbersome” (p. 857).

Deregulation could be good for incumbent ISPs, referred to by some scholars as the ‘broadband cartel.’ With the broadband industry already functioning as an oligopoly, deregulation opens the door to potential mergers, further concentrating... Under past conservative FCC leadership, we have seen large mergers among mobile broadband providers like Sprint and T-Mobile, a merger the FCC approved along party line. The Benton Institute for Broadband & Society looks at Project 2025 and its plans for the FCC. I’ve included only the introduction here, the rest of the article details expectations… In January 2023, Spencer Chretien—a former Special Assistant to President Donald J. Trump and Associate Director of Presidential Personnel—introduced Project 2025, an effort organized by the Heritage Foundation “to lay the groundwork for a White House more friendly to the right.” At the time, some 45...

One pillar of Project 2025 is Heritage’s 180-day Transition Playbook—called Mandate for Leadership—which includes a transition plan for each federal agency. Heritage warns that few appointments to federal independent regulatory agencies will be as important as the President’s selection of the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote the playbook chapter on the FCC. The chapter does not purport to set forth a comprehensive agenda for the FCC. Rather, it focuses on selected issue areas that may quickly rise to the attention of a new Administration. The four identified policy priorities are:

Today, The American Prospect published some of our original reporting on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that was signed into law on Independence Day. In it, our Associate Director for Communications Sean Gonsalves writes: "Sold to voters as a way to cut 'waste, fraud, and abuse,' a more honest assessment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) is that it’s just a Big Brazen Bid to shred... Naturally, the looming cuts to Medicaid and what they will mean for rural hospitals in particular has received the most press. But there are numerous other ways those in need of government assistance will be further pressed into poverty, including through a particularly narrow-minded Sophie’s Choice: internet access or food? Last year, GOP leaders blocked bipartisan efforts to fund an extension of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), which offered 23 million eligible households a $30-per-month voucher to help pay for internet service.

As if letting the ACP die wasn’t a big enough blow, OBBBA not only increases the paperwork burden required to qualify for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, it completely removes internet service costs... You’re reading the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society’s Weekly Digest, a recap of the biggest (or most overlooked) broadband stories of the week. The digest is delivered via e-mail each Friday. Round-Up for the Week of July 15-19, 2024 In the wake of the 2024 Republican National Convention and in light of some recent controversy, we take a look at a proposed FCC agenda for 2025. In January 2023, Spencer Chretien—a former Special Assistant to President Donald J.

Trump and Associate Director of Presidential Personnel—introduced Project 2025, an effort organized by the Heritage Foundation "to lay the groundwork for a White House more friendly to the right." At the time, some 45... "Only through the implementation of specific action plans at each agency will the next conservative presidential Administration be successful."—Heritage Foundation Project 2025 will usher in a new era of wild West-style deregulation for broadband https://lnkd.in/gTD_SX69 The Benton Institute for Broadband & Society talks about the impact of policy and broadband adoption… To improve broadband adoption, future growth will have to come from the same population segments that experienced adoption growth upon the pandemic’s onset. They are the segments where significant connectivity gaps remain—and thus are the most promising for attracting new subscriptions.

The takeaways for policymakers and other stakeholders are: Seven recommendations to allow the Department of Commerce to assist the next President in implementing a bold agenda to deliver economic prosperity and strong national security, including: Benton Institute for Broadband & Society 1041 Ridge Rd, Unit 214 Wilmette, IL 60091 © 1994-2025 Benton Institute for Broadband & Society. All Rights Reserved. Project 2025's Plan for the NTIA https://lnkd.in/g-QkR3kk

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