The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. TELECOM

Microsoft and MCI announce a new venture to offer Internet-based phone service.

CEI Expert Available for Comment: Technology Counsel Braden Cox on how Internet calling will change the telecommunications industry.

2. TRADE

Anti-trade activists protest the meeting of the World Trade Organization in Hong Kong.

CEI Expert Available for Comment: Senior Fellow Gregory Conko and others on the previous round of negotiations and protests in Cancun, Mexico.

3. INTERNATIONAL

The U.S. ambassador to Canada addresses anti-American campaign rhetoric north of the border.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis, Jr. on the hypocrisy of Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin’s criticism of the U.S. environmental record.

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