If net neutrality proponents prevail, it is less likely that companies that operate most of the Internet will have sufficient economic incentives to build needed new capacity.

Internet advertising is the growth engine that sustains the availability of free applications such as YouTube and MySpace. Without Internet advertising revenues, many believe that innovators would cease to develop these immensely popular programs. On the flipside, advertisers will only advertise on Web pages that have a strong following or...

The last thing a struggling American economy needs is regulators with itchy trigger fingers taking aim at one of the country's most dynamic sectors.

House Republicans have broken the hugely successful spectrum auction authorization first effected in 1993 and also delayed for many years any possibility that digital broadcast spectrum that is almost entirely unused can be repurposed to serve the growing demands for wireless broadband.

The Postal Service needs to be converted into a regular business, facing market competition and disciplined by active, focused shareholders. It must be permitted to reduce its high and rigid costs, and to adjust to the realities of a new communications marketplace. This should be done through de-monopolization, corporatization, and eventual privatization, as has been done in many other countries.

If Romney were more adept and philosophically grounded, he could make the case that he’s the guy to turn around government. You can hear him trying, but he’s not there yet.

The author discusses competition on the Internet backbone, as well as relevant competition policy issues.