Focus on Broadband Advancement Has Gradually Shifted

The Free State Foundation on Thursday hosted conference to celebrate its new book, "New Directions in Communications Policy," with contributions by members of the think tanks academic board. Speaking at the event, John Mayo, a professor of economics, business and public policy at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business and contributing author, said that the focus on broadband advancement is a shift that has happened before. "From 1996 to 2008, there was a focus of deploying broadband," he said. "Now the main focus is on the deploying and adoption of broadband." However, in the collection of essays, author Christopher Yoo, professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and professor of communication at the Annenberg School for Communications, said that there was much to be learned from previous Internet advances.