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Blog

Remove Barriers to Broadband Deployment to Help Consumers

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 12/07/2017

The government should unleash the forces of market discipline in the broadband sector by reducing barriers to competition.

Tech and Telecom

Study

Improving America’s Broadband through Competition, Not Regulation

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 12/06/2017

View Full Document as PDF Should the government regulate the Internet like a public utility? This policy question has vexed U.S. lawmakers…

New York Times

Justice Department Sues to Block AT&T-Time Warner Merger

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 11/21/2017

New York Times article discusses the Justice Department’s lawsuit to block the AT&T-Time Warner Merger Legal experts were divided on the merits…

Regulatory Reform

News Release

CEI Leads Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Support of Internet Freedom

  • Ryan Radia
  • 11/02/2017

It is crucial that the Supreme Court confirm that the Telecommunications Act doesn't give the FCC broad power to regulate the Internet.

Law and Litigation

News Release

FCC Reauthorization Should Be A Deauthorization

  • Ryan Radia
  • 10/11/2017

The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Ryan Radia offered comment prior to the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing today on the Federal…

Tech and Telecom

Study

Shrinking Government Bureaucracy

  • By: Iain Murray, John Berlau, Kent Lassman, Myron Ebell, Ryan Radia, Trey Kovacs
  • 09/06/2017

View Full Document as PDF Shrinking Government Bureaucracy is a series of policy proposals by Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) experts to rein in…

Regulatory Reform

Comment

CEI Submitted Comments to the FCC on Restoring Internet Freedom

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 08/31/2017

View Full Document as PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), we respectfully submit these reply comments regarding the FCC’s…

Tech and Telecom

Study

Rethinking the Federal Communications Commission

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 08/15/2017

View Full Document as PDF Created by the Communications Act of 1934, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wields broad authority to regulate…

Tech and Telecom

News Release

President Trump and Net Neutrality Rulemaking at FCC

  • Ryan Radia
  • 07/19/2017

White House press briefing, Principal Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said, in reference to the current net neutrality debate, “The Trump administration believes the rules…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Comment

CEI Comments to the FCC on Restoring Internet Freedom

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 07/18/2017

View full document as PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), we respectfully submit these comments regarding the FCC’s proposed…

Tech and Telecom

Blog

Net Neutrality ‘Day of Action’ Endorses Government Power to Suppress Free Speech

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 07/11/2017

This week's net neutrality “Day of Action” seeks to defend a regulatory regime that ultimately facilities the suppression of free speech by a federal agency:…

Free Speech

Washington Examiner

No, Amazon Isn’t a Monopoly Just Because It Bought Whole Foods

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 06/26/2017

Amazon announced a deal last week to purchase the grocery chain Whole Foods for nearly $14 billion. The company’s largest proposed transaction to date,…

Antitrust

Op-Eds

No, Amazon isn’t a monopoly just because it bought Whole Foods

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 06/23/2017

Amazon announced a deal last week to purchase the grocery chain Whole Foods for nearly $14 billion. The company’s largest proposed transaction…

Tech and Telecom

News Release

CEI Comments on Amazon’s Plan to Buy Whole Foods

  • Iain Murray, Ryan Radia, Trey Kovacs
  • 06/20/2017

Amazon’s recent announcement of its plan to buy the grocery chain Whole Foods has set off a series of questions and speculation. CEI experts on…

Antitrust

The Daily Caller

Obama Administration’s Internet Regs Suffer First Huge Blow

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 05/19/2017

The Daily Caller discusses the Federal Communications Commission’s vote on Net Neutrality with Ryan Commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 2-1…

Regulatory Reform

News Release

CEI Applauds FCC Vote to Start Roll Back of Internet Regulations

  • Ryan Radia
  • 05/18/2017

Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to begin the regulatory process to roll back the agency’s 2015 net neutrality rules. Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)…

Tech and Telecom

Washington Free Beacon

Report: Net Neutrality Leads to Higher prices, Less Innovation

  • By: Jessica Melugin, Ryan Radia
  • 05/17/2017

Washington Free Beacon covers CEI’s Net Neutrality report authored by Jessica Melugin and Ryan Radia. Keeping Obama administration-era net neutrality rules would result…

Regulatory Reform

Politico

CEI Makes Case for Net Neutrality Rollback

  • By: Jessica Melugin, Ryan Radia
  • 05/17/2017

Politico Morning Tech covers CEI’s Net Neutrality report authored by Ryan Radia and Jessica Melugin. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, in a report…

Regulatory Reform

News Release

CEI Petitions DHS to Follow the Law: U.S. Aircraft Laptop Ban Must Go Through Public Notice and Comment

  • Ryan Radia
  • 05/16/2017

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently banned passengers from carrying electronic devices larger than a cell phone in the cabin on any nonstop flights…

Transportation

News Release

Should We Regulate the Internet? CEI Argues FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Threaten Freedom, Innovation and Harm Consumers

  • Jessica Melugin, Ryan Radia
  • 05/15/2017

Consumers should be aware that net neutrality regulations will result in higher prices and less innovation for their broadband services.

Tech and Telecom

Study

A Net Neutrality Primer

  • By: Jessica Melugin, Ryan Radia
  • 05/15/2017

View Full Document as PDF If you have watched Last Week Tonight with John Oliver recently, you will have noticed that its…

Tech and Telecom

Reason.com

Trump’s First 100 Days: At Least He Picked Some Good People to Run Things

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 05/01/2017

Reason.com discusses the FCC’s broadband privacy rule with Ryan Radia.   Trump and Congress teamed-up to use the Congressional Review Act 13 times during…

Tech and Telecom

Vox

Trump’s FCC Chair Just Declared War on Obama’s Net Neutrality Rules

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 04/28/2017

Vox discusses the Federal Communication Commission’s net neutrality rules with Ryan Radia.  Now, surprisingly, Republicans like Sen. John Thune (R-SD), the chair of…

Tech and Telecom

News Release

CEI Commends FCC Plan to Roll Back Net Neutrality Regulations Threatening Internet Freedom

  • Ryan Radia
  • 04/26/2017

CEI commends Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai's plans for rolling back harmful net neutrality regulations that hamper Internet freedom and consumer access to more…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Fortune

How Trump’s FCC Head Plans To Attack Net Neutrality

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 04/26/2017

Fortune discusses with Ryan Radia the Federal Communication Commision’s Chairman Ajit Pai’s expected announcement to eliminate net neutrality rules.  Already, the various sides…

Tech and Telecom

Wall Street Journal

Who Watches a Murder Streamed Live on Facebook?

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 04/26/2017

The Wall Street Journal discusses regulating social media live streaming with Ryan Radia.  With nearly two billion users, Facebook wants to be not…

Tech and Telecom

News Release

To Boost Innovation, FCC Should Roll Back Net Neutrality Regulations

  • Ryan Radia
  • 04/25/2017

Over the past decade, the FCC has sought to transform itself into the Internet’s regulator in spite of a clear directive to the contrary from…

Tech and Telecom

Real Clear Policy

A Chance to Improve the FCC

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 04/19/2017

The new Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Ajit Pai, has his work cut out for him. He must move the FCC’s approach to…

Tech and Telecom

Blog

Feds Back Down After Seeking to Unmask ‘Rogue’ Agency Twitter Account

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 04/13/2017

Hopefully this saga marks the end of this administration’s efforts to unconstitutionally unmask anonymous critics.

Free Speech

Blog

A New Approach to Allocating Broadcast Spectrum

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 04/06/2017

More technology that uses the internet means demand on the spectrum can quickly outpace supply. Luckily, private markets have a solution.

Tech and Telecom

News Release

Freeing Spectrum: How Market Values Can Unleash Telecom Innovation

  • Ryan Radia
  • 04/06/2017

Americans use the electromagnetic spectrum (spectrum) every day through their cell phones, tablets, radios, and other devices. Although users can immediately tell when their data…

Tech and Telecom

Study

A Case for Property Rights in the Electromagnetic Spectrum

  • By: Joseph Kane, Ryan Radia
  • 04/05/2017

View Full Document as PDF The air that surrounds us may appear empty, but it is full of information that travels across…

Tech and Telecom

Blog

FTC Launches Economic Liberty Task Force to Fight Overregulation

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 03/31/2017

Federal agencies have a well-deserved reputation for issuing regulations, publishing guidance documents, and bringing enforcement actions against American businesses. But when the stars align, agencies…

Regulatory Reform

Fortune

Privacy Advocates Pour Hate on Vote To Repeal Internet Privacy Protections

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 03/29/2017

Fortune discusses the Federal Communication Commission’s broadband privacy rules with Ryan Radia.  For the pro-business think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute, however, the…

Privacy and Cybersecurity

BBC

How will scrapping of US internet privacy rules affect me?

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 03/29/2017

BBC discusses the Federal Communication Commission’s broadband privacy rule with Ryan Radia.  The original FCC rule sought to protect customer proprietary information including,…

Tech and Telecom

News Release

CEI Applauds House CRA to Reverse Broadband Privacy Rule

  • Ryan Radia
  • 03/28/2017

The Competitive Enterprise Institute applauds the House of Representatives for passing a CRA resolution of disapproval to repeal the FCC’s privacy rule today. The CRA…

Tech and Telecom

Blog

Six Reasons FCC Rules Are Not Needed to Protect Privacy

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 03/27/2017

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has been long been skeptical of the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) approach to regulating how Internet service providers (ISPs) use subscriber…

Privacy and Cybersecurity

News Release

CEI Applauds Senate CRA Move to Reverse Broadband Privacy Rule

  • Ryan Radia
  • 03/23/2017

"The FCC erred in imposing uniquely rigid requirements on broadband companies' information collection practices, especially given the lack of any evidence that consumers have been…

Blog

Broadband Privacy Regulations Need to Be Revised by FCC or Repealed by Congress

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 03/20/2017

The Federal Communications Commission does not have the authority to rewrite the Wiretap Act to suit its policy preferences.

Law and Litigation

Blog

Restraint, Humility Needed at Federal Trade Commission

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 03/16/2017

As President Trump evaluates candidates to chair the Federal Trade Commission, he should look for a person who appreciates the importance of letting markets evolve…

Antitrust

News Release

FCC Stay of Privacy Rule Prevents Irreparable Injury to Businesses and Consumers

  • Ryan Radia
  • 03/02/2017

This week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a temporary stay of part of its privacy rule for internet service providers. The Competitive Enterprise Institute…

Tech and Telecom

Blog

FCC Could Move Soon on Long-Delayed CEI Cable Merger Petition

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 03/01/2017

Chairman Ajit Pai has signaled that the FCC may revise conditions on the Charter cable merge, hopefully granting a long-delayed CEI petition in the process.

Antitrust

Blog

AT&T-Time Warner Deal Highlights Need for FCC Reform

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 02/15/2017

Interference by Democratic senators in the merger of AT&T and Time Warner is a reminder of the need to reform the FCC’s authority to regulate…

Antitrust

Blog

Public Interest Groups Urge Update of Email Privacy Protections

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 02/01/2017

This week, CEI joined dozens of public interest groups, trade associations, and companies in sending a letter to Congress in support of the…

Free Speech

Blog

Minimum Prices Have Consumer Benefits: Contact Lens Case Study

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 01/25/2017

Allowing competing manufacturers to decide for themselves how to influence how their products are sold at retail is the best way to promote innovation and,…

Consumer Freedom

News Release

Finding Freedom for Contact Lens Retailers

  • Ryan Radia, W. Thomas Haynes
  • 01/25/2017

More than 30 million Americans wear contact lenses. In recent years, contact lens technology has improved, leading to increased sales and changes in the policies…

News Release

Competitive Enterprise Institute Congratulates New Federal Communications Commission Chair Ajit Pai

  • Jessica Melugin, Ryan Radia
  • 01/24/2017

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) congratulates Ajit Pai on his designation as the 34th chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). A strong advocate of…

Study

Resale Pricing in the Contact Lens Industry

  • By: Ryan Radia, W. Thomas Haynes
  • 01/19/2017

View Full Document as PDF More than 30 million Americans wear contact lenses. In recent years, contact lens technology has improved, offering…

Antitrust

Blog

New Congress Needs to Modernize Tech Policy

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 01/05/2017

With respect to tech and telecom, lawmakers should avoid imposing new mandates and prohibitions in response to new technologies that might seem threatening, absent exceptional…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Study

First Steps for the Trump Administration: Support Technology and Innovation

  • By: Jessica Melugin, Marc Scribner, Ryan Radia
  • 12/14/2016

View full document as PDF The frontier sectors that define the new high-tech economy are uniquely vulnerable to political predation and cronyism.

Tech and Telecom

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