Archive: News – Digital Economy

• John Mayo discusses current antitrust legislation in Wisconsin Public Radio segment

  The House Judiciary Committee recently advanced several bills that would allow for more regulation of companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook. Wisconsin Public Radio host Rob Ferrett invited

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• John Mayo interviewed about proposed legislation that would impose domestic content quotas for audiovisual services in Mexico

  With the ink not yet dry on the recent USMCA trade agreement, new legislation proposed in Mexico would impose a quota requiring that no less than 15 percent of all video streaming productions in Mexi

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• Glenn Woroch appointed Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission

  CBPP Senior Policy Scholar Glenn Woroch has been appointed Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He began work at the Commission on September 25, 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pa

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• Anna Maria-Kovacs releases policy paper: “U.S. broadband networks rise to the challenge of surging traffic during the pandemic”

  As a result of the pandemic, internet traffic has surged, creating unanticipated strain on broadband networks around the world. In a new policy paper, Dr. Anna-Maria Kovacs examines the performance of U.S. broadband networks relative to other networks in Europe and across the OECD.

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• John Mayo speaks with Brazilian academics and policymakers

  Concurrent with the November release of his Economic Policy Vignette addressing vertical integration in the Brazilian multichannel audiovisual industry, Executive Director John Mayo traveled to Brasi

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• Anna Maria-Kovacs Assesses the Impact of Changing FCC Regulation on Internet Providers’ Investments

  A key feature of the regulation of broadband Internet access service is whether it is regulated lightly as an “information service” under Title I of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Act) or more h

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• Anna-Maria Kovacs: “America’s Consumers Deserve Best-in-Class Privacy Protections” (ECN)

  Right now, privacy in the U.S. consists of a patchwork of state and federal laws that make it extremely difficult for an American to know his or her rights. Federal laws cover some specific aspec

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• Larry Downes: “5G’s Potential, and Why Businesses Should Start Preparing for It” (Harvard Business Review)

  Tuesday, March 5, 2019 A new Accenture survey of nearly 2,000 technology and business executives in 10 countries revealed deep uncertainty about next-generation mobile network technology, know

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• Larry Downes: “Is the tech backlash going askew?” (Washington Post)

  Wednesday, January 16, 2019 As winter sets in, the dark days for technology companies have been getting longer. We sympathize with the increased anxiety over the poor data hygiene practices

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• Anna-Maria Kovacs: “The FCC clears the way for 5G” (ECN)

  Thursday, December 13, 2018 Cisco VNI’s latest forecast projects rapid growth for U.S. mobile data traffic over the next five years. Such growth is only possible, of course, if there is enough

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