Archive: News
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Dr. Daniel Sokol, University of Florida Research Foundation Professor, presents the Airline Competition Conference at the CBPP
Conference affiliated papers: Access Dr. Daniel Sokol, University of Florida Research Foundation Professor, organized and presented the "Airline Competition Conference" on July 17, at the Geor
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CBPP scholars issue Economic Policy Vignette: “An Economic Perspective of Title II Regulation of the Internet”
John Mayo co-authored with a number of other prominent economists an Economic Policy Vignette, “An Economic Perspective of Title II Regulation of the Internet.” The EPV was submitted to the Feder
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CBPP hosts policy forum on title II, net neutrality, and the struggle for balance in broadband regulation
On July 12, 2017, the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy and a group of experts in both the history of internet regulation and current efforts to reform it had a rich discussion of
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Downes and Wallsten participated in a policy discussion on the perennial debate about net neutrality.
Scott Wallsten (Senior Policy Scholar) and Larry Downes (Senior Industry and Innovation Fellow) joined a panel of experts at the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation on July 11, 2017, t
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Anna-Maria Kovacs releases new policy paper: “The Effect of Title II Classification on Wireless Investment”
Anna-Maria Kovacs released a policy paper, "The Effect of Title II Classification on Wireless Investment." She puts forth that "it is not Net Neutrality itself that hinders investment in wireless
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Mayo presented “Universal Service: Now It’s Getting Personal” at the Center for Research in Regulated Industries 30th Annual Western Conference in Monterrey, California
On June 29, CBPP Executive Director John Mayo participated in a session on Telecommunications and Compliance at the 30th Annual Western Conference of the Center for Research in Regulated Industri
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Downes testifies before Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on broadband infrastructure investment
On Wednesday, May 3, 2017, Larry Downes testified in a hearing titled "Investing in America’s Broadband Infrastructure: Exploring Ways to Reduce Barriers to Deployment" before the Senate Committe
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Larry Downes: “Broadband’s future is in the crosshairs of the FCC’s ‘political spectrum’” (Washington Post)
Washington Post The Federal Communications Commission, once a sleepy regulatory backwater, has become a deeply political agency, governed less by the science of radio waves than by pressure fr
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Delp, Ukhaneva, Mayo quoted in Transport Topics’ coverage of Freight Rail Colloquium
Several speakers at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business' "The Economics and Regulation of the Freight Rail Industry" colloquium addressed various aspects of railroad and other tran
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Anna-Maria Kovacs: “Has Title II Regulation Stifled Wireless Investment? Here’s What the Numbers Say” (Wireless Week)
Wireless Week Anyone who doubts that the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) 2015 invocation of the Communications Act’s Title II utility-style regulation reduced broadband investment
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