Written Testimonies & Filings Archives - Page 9 of 12 - International Center for Law & Economics

May 26, 2015

Comments, In The Matter of Nomi Technologies, Inc., FTC

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

"The FTC’s consent decree with Nomi Technologies is remarkable for two things. First is what it does not do, practically: empower consumers to opt-out of cell phone tracking while shopping in retail stores..."

Data Security & Privacy

April 24, 2015

Comments, Operation and Cert. of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems, FAA

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

"We believe the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has failed to appropriately weigh the costs and benefits, as well as the First Amendment implications, of its proposed rules for the Operation and Certification of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)..."

Innovation & The New Economy

April 6, 2015

Reply Comments, Deployment of Adv. Telecommunications Services, FCC

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

"Promoting broadband deployment should be the overarching goal of everything the FCC does. To that extent, we applaud the Commission for finding time to include an eleven (11) - paragraph Notice of Inquiry about how promote broadband deployment in its new Broadband Progress Report..."

Telecommunications

March 3, 2015

ICLE Comments, Promoting Innovation and Competition in the Provision of MVPD Services

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

In this proceeding, the Commission proposes to expand the definition of a multichannel video programming distributor (MVPD) to encompass “subscription linear” online video distributors (OVDs), defined as services that make “multiple streams of prescheduled video programming available for purchase” over the Internet.

Telecommunications

December 31, 2014

Comments, Effects of Big Data on Low Income & Underserved Communities, FTC

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

"To the American ear, there is perhaps no uglier word than “discrimination.” The mere mention brings to mind Bull Connor, turning police dogs and fire hoses onto Martin Luther King, Jr.’s non violent demonstrators against Jim Crow in Birmingham, back in the 1962..."

Data Security & Privacy

December 8, 2014

Letter, Urging FTC Advise FCC Employ Case-by-Case Rules in Regulating Net Neutrality, FTC

Geoffrey A. Manne

"We are professors and scholars of law, business, economics, and public policy with expertise in communications, competition, innovation, industrial organization and related fields..."

Telecommunications

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

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