Archive: News
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Larry Downes: “Why Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure” (Harvard Business Review)
Friday, September 7, 2018 In 2010, Google rocked the $60 billion broadband industry by announcing plans to deploy fiber-based home internet service, offering connections up to a gigabit per second
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Anna-Maria Kovacs releases policy paper: “Competition in the U.S. Wireless Services Market”
Thursday, August 23, 2018 Anna-Maria Kovacs, Visiting Senior Policy Scholar, contributed a policy paper, "Competition in the U.S. Wireless Services Market." She concludes that "[a]s the Federa
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Larry Downes: “Is Disney Moving Too Fast On Fox Takeover? Don’t Ask Antitrust Regulators” (Forbes)
Tuesday, July 10, 2018 The Department of Justice appears to have changed its mind again about the risks of media mergers. After being brutally trounced in an ill-conceived lawsuit to block the
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Larry Downes comments on Disney-Fox merger
How the Disney-Fox Deal got DOJ's Greenlight Quicker Than Expected, Variety June 27, 2018 Larry Downes, senior industry and innovation fellow at the Georgetown Center for Business and Publ
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Catherine Tinsley comments on negotiation lessons to be learned from the Trump-Kim meetings in Singapore
Not even Nostradamus could have predicted this one. As US President, Donald Trump, and North Korea’s Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un, put down their yo-yos and finally meet face-to-face after months
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Larry Downes: “The AT&T Ruling Shows That U.S. Regulators Don’t Understand Media’s Present — or Future” (Harvard Business Review)
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 This week’s decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon to allow AT&T and Time Warner to complete their merger will bring to a close a deal that has been pending for
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J. Bradford Jensen appears on WJLA segment discussing trade implications of President Trump’s recent meetings
Senior Policy Scholar J. Bradford Jensen appeared on WJLA's segment "White House Takes Up Fight Against 'Back-Stabbing' Justin Trudeau" on June 10, 2018.
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Larry Downes: “5G: What is it good for?” (Washington Post)
5G, or 5th generation mobile, is the next big leap in wireless communications. You’ve probably heard about it in commercials or seen it in headlines. But much of the discussion about the new tech
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Larry Downes and other panelists quoted in TR Daily article covering CBPP event on May 24th
Maker:L,Date:2017-9-17,Ver:5,Lens:Kan03,Act:Kan02,E-Y The TR Daily covered the CBPP's May 24, 2018 discussion of 5G in "U.S. at Risk of Losing Mid-Band 5G Race, Panelists Says" by Lynn Stanton:
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Larry Downes: “With More Net Neutrality Stunts, Broadband Becomes A Political Football” (Forbes)
Do the very vocal supporters of Net Neutrality actually want Net Neutrality? Apparently not. Rather than negotiate a straightforward legislative solution and get it enacted as a matter of federal
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