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Besides transport and energy infrastructure, communications infrastructure is steadily gaining in importance in the regional competition to attract investment. As the appeal of data-intensive services and networked devices rapidly increases, modern networks become more and more important....
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The FCC Procedural Reform for Openness and Clarity Encouraging Sensible Solutions Act (FCC PROCESS Act) is a commendable effort to improve decision making at the Commission, and upon analysis it is evident the proposed reforms would do much in improving both transparency and timeliness in the...
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The sudden, mandated closures of businesses, restaurants, and schools in response to the COVID-19 pandemic impose severe economic and social costs. People want to know when they can reopen their shops, rehire furloughed employees, and return to a life with some semblance of normalcy. Medical...
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Matthew Lasar asks the $64,000 question on Ars Technica: "Did Congress really give the FCC power to protect the Net? The jurisdictional question, as Lasar notes, lies at the heart of the viability of the FCC's proposed net neutrality rules. The answer depends on one's view of what regulatory...
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The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cohen v. U.S. (No. 08-5088) rebuffed an attempt by the IRS to treat as a general statement of policy a Notice by which it both conceded its refund obligation for certain improperly collected telephone excise taxes and established a binding and exclusive...
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The Consumer Electronics Show in 2021 featured innovative products for the “changed-everyday” that is expected to characterize the post-COVID-19 world. Such products demonstrate that the so-called “digital transformation” is already well underway.AI is now a mandatory foundational...
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reduction of trade barriers for the critically important information and communication technology (ICT) industry. ITA thus … on the role played by differences in the stage of development of their ICT industry, but also more generally in their … ICT industry. By inserting these domestic determinants into the analysis of trade and innovation, new insights are …
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The Federal Communications Commission appears to be conducting a far-ranging data gathering effort concerning cable prices and analog-to-digital channel movements under the guise of individual complaint enforcement. The FCC's regular processes and procedures appear to have been perverted to...
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is required by the 1992 Cable Act to produce an "Annual Assessment of the Status of Competition in the Market for the Delivery of Video Programming," otherwise known as the "Annual Video Competition Report." These annual reports are eagerly awaited not...
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