Archive: News
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Join the teleconference tomorrow: Can the U.S. Afford Title II? Debating Costs versus Benefits
On 9/18 the Center will host a teleconference, “Can the U.S. Afford Title II? Debating Costs versus Benefits.” Please join us from 9:00 – 10:00 AM, dial in number: 866-952-1906. On September 1
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Mayo pens new EPV: “Results Based Regulation: 20th Century Lessons and 21st Century Opportunities”
The Center issued a new Economic Policy Vignette, Results-Based Regulation: 20th-Century Lessons and 21st-Century Opportunities. This EPV provides a new lens and fresh perspective for regulators
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Downes in Forbes: “Judgment Day for the FCC’s Latest Net Neutrality Folly”
Larry Downes’ latest Forbes piece examines the legal actions now being taken against the so-called net neutrality rules put forth by the FCC last spring. Downes focuses on the arguments being ma
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Center scholars offer suggestions to reform the Lifeline Program
John Mayo, Olga Ukhaneva, and Scott Wallsten authored a CBPP Economic Policy Vignette, “Toward a More Efficient and Effective Lifeline Program.” In June 2015, the Federal Communications Commissi
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Downes in WaPo: “Five legal threats for fintech’s hottest start-ups”
In his latest Washington Post Innovations piece, Larry Downes examines “a new generation of financial technology or ‘fintech’ companies [who are] once again breaking down the oversized doors of t
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Center hosting “The Innovation and Engineering Dynamics of the Digital Economy: Economic Transformation and Expansion Enabled by 5G” October 14
Please join the Wireless Technology Association and the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy for “The Innovation and Engineering Dynamics of the Digital Economy: Economic Transformati
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Downes on Tech Crunch: “Silicon Valley Is A Political Issue In The 2016 Election”
August 20 – Larry Downes was interviewed by Andrew Keen of Tech Crunch about the 2016 presidential election. In “INNOVATE2016: Silicon Valley Is A Political Issue In The 2016 Election,” Downes en
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Center scholars quoted in WSJ opinion on Internet regulation
August 17- In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece on 8/16 “Obamanet Heads to Court,” L. Gordon Crovitz recognizes the analysis and explanation of how utility regulation suppresses innovation put
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Downes’ Big Bang Disruption named must-read
On August 13, Larry Downes’ Big Bang Disruption was named one of “7 Must-Read Books for the Budding Entrepreneur.” Article author Matthew Toren describes Downes book as “… a great one to
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Center scholars lead assessment of economic merits of the Open Internet Order in new Economic Policy Vignette
A group of prominent economists including several Center scholars have released an Economic Policy Vignette assessing the economic merits the Open Internet Order. They argue the Order “represents
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