Written Testimonies & Filings Archives - Page 11 of 13 - International Center for Law & Economics

September 29, 2014

Reply Comments, NC & TN Petitions Restricting Municipal Broadband

Geoffrey A. Manne & Ben Sperry & Berin Szoka & Tom Struble

"The International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE) and TechFreedom filed initial comments in these proceedings urging the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or “Commission”) not to preempt the state laws at issue in North Carolina and Tennessee..."

Telecommunications

September 23, 2014

Reply Comments, Assign or Transfer Control of Licenses and Authorizations

Geoffrey A. Manne

"The International Center for Law & Economics ("ICLE") and eleven independent professors and scholars of law and economics file these comments to address general merger review issues and certain specific concerns that were raised in some of the Comments and Petitions to Deny filed in this proceeding..."

Telecommunications

September 15, 2014

Reply Comments, In the Matter of Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet

Geoffrey A. Manne & Ben Sperry & Berin Szoka & Tom Struble

"Any new rules issued by the Commission should not be based on Title II. For the reasons we explained in our comments, we believe re-opening Title II would be a disaster in ways that Title II proponents do not seem to understand – or, at least, have not been willing to seriously discuss."

Telecommunications

August 29, 2014

Comments, NC & TN Petitions Restricting Municipal Broadband Networks

Geoffrey A. Manne & Ben Sperry & Berin Szoka & Tom Struble

"On July 24th, 2014, the Electric Power Board (EPB) of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the City of Wilson, north Carolina, filed separate petitions with the Federal Communications Commission..."

Telecommunications

August 5, 2014

Comments, Big Data and Consumer Privacy in the Internet Economy

Geoffrey A. Manne & Ben Sperry & Berin Szoka & Tom Struble

"...A serious assessment of the need for new privacy legislation, and the right way to frame it, would not begin by assuming the premise that a particular framework is necessary..."

Data Security & Privacy

July 17, 2014

Policy Comments, Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet, FCC

Geoffrey A. Manne & Ben Sperry & Berin Szoka & Tom Struble

"No one’s against an open Internet. The notion that anyone can put up a virtual shingle—and that the good ideas will rise to the top—is a bedrock principle with broad support; it has made the Internet essential to modern life..."

Telecommunications

July 17, 2014

Legal Comments, Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet, FCC

Geoffrey A. Manne & Ben Sperry & Berin Szoka & Tom Struble

"In its proposed rules, the FCC is essentially proposing to do what can only properly be done by Congress: invent a new legal regime for broadband..."

Telecommunications

March 26, 2014

Letter, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on the Direct Automobile Distribution Ban

Geoffrey A. Manne

"We, the signatories of this letter, are professors and scholars of law, business, economics, and public policy with expertise in industrial organization, distribution, competition, intellectual property, innovation and related fields..."

Innovation & The New Economy

January 1, 2014

Comments, Communications Act Rewrite, House Energy & Commerce Committee

Geoffrey A. Manne & Ben Sperry & Berin Szoka & Tom Struble

"Twenty years ago, Democrats and Republicans agreed on the need to refocus communications competition policy on promoting competition in an era of convergence, focusing on effects rather than formalism..."

Telecommunications

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