Geoffrey A. Manne •
September 23, 2014
"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..."
"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."
"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..."
"...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..."
"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..."
"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..."
"It’s been said, of the newest technology, that speed could change everything. If only we could cross a certain speed threshold, our basic infrastructure would catalyze new opportunities we can scarcely even conceive of..."
Geoffrey A. Manne •
September 26, 2013
"It’s been said, of the newest technology, that speed could change everything. If only we could cross a
certain speed threshold, our basic infrastructure would catalyze new opportunities we can scarcely even
conceive of..."
"In the 1996 Telecommunications Act, Congress created a cluster of Universal Service Programs to ensure that schools, libraries, high-cost areas and the poorest Americans are connected to the telecommunications networks..."