In 2017, mobile users in the U.S. exchanged 1.77 trillion texts, also know as short message services (SMS) and multimedia message services (MMS). That figure is perhaps five times as large – up to 10 trillion per year – if we include similar messaging apps, such as Apple’s iMessage and Facebook’s WhatsApp. Earlier this year, Facebook said ...

The FCC’s new Web rules are already as onerous as feared and favor some business models over others. Imagine if Steve Jobs, Larry Page or Mark Zuckerberg had been obliged to ask bureaucrats in Washington if it was OK to launch the iPhone, Gmail, or Facebook ’s forthcoming Oculus virtual-reality service. Ridiculous, right? ...

The ‘slow and expensive’ reputation is undeserved, as analyses of Internet traffic and network speed indicate. Has the U.S. fallen behind the rest of the world in broadband? Do consumers have trouble accessing websites and find it difficult to shop and surf the Web? The success of Google, Apple, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, WhatsApp, ...