Archive: News – Digital Economy
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Larry Downes comments on AT&T-Time Warner merger case in Variety feature
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 Larry Downes comments on the U.S. Department of Justice's appeal of U.S. District Judge Richard Leon's decision in favor of the AT&T-Time Warner merger in a Variety f
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John Mayo comments on cost to consumers of robocall scams in Gray TV feature story on pending legislation against the calls
Friday, November 30, 2018 In a Gray TV feature, "FCC and Senate teaming up to take down robocall scams," CBPP Executive Director John Mayo comments on the cost to American consumers of the rob
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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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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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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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