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Comments to DOT in the matter of Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), 67 Fed. Reg. 69366
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MCI’s Layered Approach: A Horizontal Leap Nowhere
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Airline Deregulation
If the government deregulates the grid and transitions toward a market solution, the benefits of flow deregulation will increase, and costs for air travelers will…
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Let a Thousand ISPs Bloom: A Hands-Off Approach to Global Tech Development
Simply uttering the phrase “Internet governance” is enough to make some people cringe with visions of Big Brother. But Internet governance is not—and shouldn’t be—some…
Letters
Letter Urging Congress to Introduce Video Competition
The Honorable Bill Frist Majority Leader United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 November 14, 2005 Dear Majority Leader Frist: Earlier this year, Sen. John Ensign…
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An Open Letter to Congress: Franchise Reform
Dear Member of Congress: Much has changed in the decade since Congress passed the 1996 Telecommunications Act. As Congress is considering changes and updates…
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House Committee Releases Plan for Telecom Reform
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” /> Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C.,…
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FCC Initiates Process to Increase Video Competition
Contact: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 …
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CEI Congressional Seminar: Tailoring Telecommunications Reform
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Communications without Commissions
Full Document Available in PDF U.S. communications is at an important inflection point.
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Statement on House Telecom Reform Proposal
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., September 23, 2005—The latest draft telecommunications bill from the House Energy & Commerce Committee…
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Competition and the Telecom Marketplace
Holman Jenkins addresses one of the many sticking points for broadband deployment — cities and localities. Indeed, in today's communications landscape dominated by…
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Reform FCC—Limit It!
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />U.S. communications policy is at an important inflection point. Cable, telephone and wireless companies aim to…
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Comments of the Competitive Enterprise Institute to the Department of State Concerning its Proposed Rulemaking Amending Apartmen
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Slicing Telecom the Right Way: Making a Real Market is the Best Cure for Monopoly
Mergers involving SBC and Verizon and a recent Supreme Court decision exempting cable-modem companies from open-access regulation have reignited fears of market domination…
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A Toast to the Supremes
Full Document Available in PDF Cheers to the Supreme Court for its…
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The Problem with the Voice over IP 911 Mandate
“Today the FCC adopted a rule requiring VoIP providers to provide emergency 911 calling services and they will have only 120…
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Air Sickness: Who’s to Blame? (Part 1)
Full document available in pdf format Business travelers, family visitors, tourists—all are affected by the airline industry’s woes. But who knows what…
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CEI Comments on SBC Communications Inc. and AT&T Corp. Applications for Approval of Transfer of Control
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Orphan Works: A Public Problem Requiring Private Solutions
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CEI Comments on Verizon and MCI Merger
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One Bundle, Many Antitrust Laws: The Dilemma for Digital Products
Alongstanding question in the software debate is whether operating systems and components such as browsers and media players are really separate products bundled as one or…
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Blocking VoIP Calls: Foreboding Harbinger or Benign Fluke-The Rights of Network Owners
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Protecting Digital Property Without New Legislation
Contrast digital property with real property or other more tangible goods. In the case of the latter, there is no continuing relationship between seller and…
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In the Matter of Level 3 Communications, Petition for Forbearance
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The Viability of Municipal Wi-Fi Networks
Full Document Available in PDF Ownership of broadband networks by municipalities,…
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Unbundling the Confusion over Declining Marginal Cost Pricing
Full Document Available in PDF Declining cost businesses must have ways…
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The Drug Reimportation Ban
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The Fight for Telecom Reform
The good news is all the combatants realize it’s a war that needs to be fought. There’s good news and bad news in the wonky…
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The Fight For Telecom Reform
Full document available in pdf format<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> There’s good news and bad news in the wonky…
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Telecom Reform, Consensus Needed
In the Washington, D.C. policy world, regulatory change requires consensus building. With rapid market changes since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Congress and the Federal Communications Commission are…
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A Green Light for More Broadband
The Federal Communications Commission—the traffic cop of the communications industry—just raised the speed limits on broadband. Its ruling on Thursday protects many of…
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Tech Regulation Done Right
Full Document Available in PDF As soon as new technologies are introduced, the call…
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Written Submission of the Competitive Enterprise Institute Regarding Email Authentication
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Written Submission of the Competitive Enterprise Institute Regarding Email Authentication
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MCI’s Layered Approach: A Horizontal Leap Nowhere
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In A Tangle
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Why the Telecommunications Industry Is Not Like OPEC
A recent cover story in the April 1 issue of America’s Network magazine claims that the four2 Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) are “increasingly coordinating…
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The Broadcast Indecency Playground
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me—we’ve all heard that phrase before. It’s often said by children who are…
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Time to Get Tough on Telecom Regulatory Reform
The FCC is not subject to any sort of mandatory “three strikes” law as are some criminals. But maybe there is justification for an equivalent…
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March Edition of CEI’s Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF “To Panic or Not to Pan? Farmed…
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An Open Letter to Randy A. Daniels, Secretary of State
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VoIP–Why it’s not (and shouldn’t be regulated like) your parents’ Plain Old Telephone Service
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December Edition of the Monthly Planet
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October Edition of the Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “On…
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International Airline Deregulation
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Event Transcript: Open Aviation for a Global Industry
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August Edition of CEI’s Monthly Planet
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Reply Comments of the Competitive Enterprise Institute
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Internet Tax Simplification: Is It Really That Simple?
Submitted for the Competitive Enterprise Instituteby Braden Cox, (202) 331-2254 or [email protected] E-commerce sales account for barely more than 1 percent of aggregate…
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Real-Time Dragnet: Cracking down on Internet innovation
“To serve and protect” is a longstanding slogan of police departments everywhere. It’s also an accurate description of a political dragnet against e-commerce, a scenario…
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Sell It, Lease It, or Give It Away –How Can Spectrum Reform Best Promote Wireless Internet Development?
Submitted for the Competitive Enterprise Institute by Braden Cox, (202) 331-2254 or [email protected] Connecting to the internet without wires has great promise. It…
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March Edition of CEI Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “The Greens’ Federal…
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Why Taxing Internet Sales Makes No Cents or Sense
As the April 15 deadline to pay personal income tax approaches, momentum is building to force a new group of people onto the…
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