Archive: News
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Kovacs participates in Digital Policy Institute webinar “Special Access: What’s Best for Business and the Public”
Anna Maria Kovacs was among the panelists at a Digital Policy Institute webinar "Special Access: What's Best for Business and the Public." Other panelists included Evan Leo, partner at Kellogg, H
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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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Downes: “The Business Implications of the EU-U.S. ‘Privacy Shield'” (HBR)
The Harvard Business Review Larry Downes examines the newly agreed upon “EU-U.S. Privacy Shield,” arguing it is "unclear, however, if ... [it] ... will pass muster with EU authorities," since
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Tinsley Travels to Davos for World Economic Forum Meeting
Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy senior policy scholar and McDonough School of Business professor Catherine Tinsley attended the 46th Annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos,
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Downes in Forbes: “In Wildly Overbroad New Investigation, California Telephone Regulators Gasp For Relevance”
Forbes Larry Downes examines the California Public Utility Commission's decision to investigate how competitive the analog phone line market is, arguing the massive data collection involved in
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Scott Wallsten: “For broadband ‘zero rating,’ it doesn’t have to be all or nothing” (The Hill)
The Hill Senior Policy Scholar Scott Wallsten argues "some groups contend that programs like Facebook's Free Basics violate net neutrality by treating content differently based on whether the
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Kovacs’ presentation at Emerging Issues Policy Forum submitted to FCC record
Visiting senior policy scholar Anna-Maria Kovacs presented research at the Emerging Issues Policy Forum (EIPF): Digital Pathway Summit on January 14th. Kovac's presentation, based on her policy p
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