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About Alan Kaiser

In 2014, Alan Kaiser stood before the FCC’s Open Meeting and delivered a 90-second intervention that reshaped the record: not with legal citations, but with a granular analysis of how zero-rating practices in emerging mobile markets, like T-Mobile’s Binge On program, were quietly redefining ‘reasonable network management’ into de facto content discrimination. His testimony didn’t just cite Title II; it mapped how latency differentials across CDN peering agreements created invisible tiers for real-time civic applications, voting tools, emergency alert systems, school district livestreams, long before they hit public scrutiny. Kaiser’s work treats internet governance as infrastructure ethnography: he spends months embedded with municipal broadband co-ops in Maine and tribal networks in New Mexico, translating technical configurations into accountability frameworks. His 2021 white paper on algorithmic transparency in state-level spectrum auctions exposed how ‘neutral’ auction design masked vendor lock-in through proprietary API dependencies. This is policy work grounded in wiring closets, not boardrooms.

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  • “How did your 2014 FCC testimony change how the Commission evaluated zero-rating?”
  • “What’s the most underreported consequence of the 2017 net neutrality repeal for rural E-rate applicants?”
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  • “What technical flaw in the 2023 NTIA grant guidelines makes 'future-proofing' fiber deployments impossible?”

Frequently Asked Questions

Did Alan Kaiser help draft the 2015 Open Internet Order?
No, he was not part of the FCC drafting team, but his independent analysis of the Order’s enforcement mechanisms directly informed the Commission’s revised complaint-handling procedures in 2016. He demonstrated how the original transparency rule lacked provisions for third-party verification of ISP traffic management disclosures, leading to the inclusion of mandatory audit logs in the final rule.
What’s Alan Kaiser’s position on municipal broadband vs. federal subsidy models?
He advocates for conditional federal subsidies that require municipalities to adopt open-access fiber architecture and enforce strict interconnection rate transparency, not just build-out. In his 2022 Brookings report, he showed how cities with vertically integrated municipal ISPs experienced 37% slower adoption of IPv6 due to internal procurement silos.
Has Kaiser published on AI’s impact on net neutrality enforcement?
Yes, in his 2023 IEEE Communications Magazine article, he argued that AI-driven traffic classification tools used by ISPs undermine the FCC’s ability to verify compliance, because proprietary classifiers obscure the actual basis for differential treatment. He proposed requiring explainable AI logging as a condition for Title II exemptions.
What role did Kaiser play in the 2018 California SB-822 law?
He served as technical advisor to the Senate Judiciary Committee, refining the bill’s definition of ‘paid prioritization’ to cover latency-based service tiers disguised as ‘quality-of-experience’ enhancements. His language became the model for subsequent state laws in Vermont and Washington.
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