Archive: Announcements
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New Kovacs paper: “Business Broadband: Assessing the Case for Reregulation”
Data collection and comparative analysis provide the bedrock for informed decision making. In this vein, “Business Broadband: Assessing the case for Reregulation” written by Visiting Senior Polic
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Larry Downes: “The Rise And Fall Of FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s Internet Empire” (Forbes)
Forbes Tech Larry Downes looks at the eight major initiatives Chairman Wheeler has undertaken in advance of his increasingly direct agenda to fundamentally change the nature of Internet govern
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Swiss students visit CBPP; attend lectures, present papers, visit government offices, think tanks
In mid March, CBPP hosted a group of graduate students from the University of Basel's Zaeslin Program for Law and Economics. While here, the students attended lectures, presented their papers, an
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Jensen discusses trade in services at WITA TTP series
On March 9th senior policy scholar Brad Jensen participated in the Washington International Trade Association's "TTP Series: Services" event. Jensen was on a panel with Christine Bliss, Coalition
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Mayo discusses “Rail Regulation for Improved Performance” at the World Bank’s Transportation and ICT Forum
On March 8, 2016 Professor John Mayo spoke to the The World Bank’s Transportation and ICT Forum. His talk was part of an invited panel discussion on “Rail Regulation for Improved Performance.” Th
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Larry Downes: “Four Reasons Today’s Disruptive Innovations Are Better And Cheaper, And What To Do About It” (Forbes)
In this article, Downes begins by discussing the advantages of start-ups: "Start-ups, unencumbered by the costs of amortizing investments in older technologies, physical supply chains, and legacy
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Downes in Forbes Tech: “For Outmoded Set-Top Boxes, The FCC Doubles Down On Failure”
Forbes Tech Larry Downes finds the latest FCC decision to create "new, mandatory technical standard[s] that will open up rapidly-disappearing set-top boxes to even more third party providers"
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Georgetown on the Hill: “The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Are the Critics Right?”
A capacity crowd filled a House Ways and Means Committee room in the Rayburn House Office building on March 30 at noon for discussion and Q+A on the pros and cons of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Scott Wallsten: “FCC’s set-top box proposal won’t lower cable bills” (The Hill)
A common consumer complaint is that cable bills are hard to decipher. It turns out that even Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler is flummoxed by all those line items, at
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Center for Business and Public Policy Commemorates 1996 Telecommunications Act
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy hosted an informal discussion looking back and looking forward. The d
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