Documents tagged with telecom regulation

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Fairness 2.0: Media Content Regulation in the 21st Century, Cato Policy Analysis No. 651

Civil libertarians feared that a change of administrations would herald a revived Fairness Doctrine, a policy that previously permitted the government to oversee broadcast news coverage for "ba...
  • CatoInstitute published this 11 / 09 / 2009
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Circumventing Competition: The Perverse Consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Ca

Executive Summary The courts have a proven track record of fashioning balanced remedies for the copyright challenges created by new technologies. But when Congress passed the Digital Millennium ...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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Peer-to-Peer Networking and Digital Rights Management: How Market Tools Can Solve Cop

Executive Summary The term "peer to peer" (P2P) refers generally to software that enables a computer to locate a content file on another networked device and copy the encoded data to its own har...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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Who Killed Telecom? Why the Official Story Is Wrong Cato Policy Analysis No. 533

Executive Summary In the mid-1990s as it seemed that lawmakers were about to abandon much of the regulatory apparatus that had hampered the telecommunications industry since the 1930s, the telecom...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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"Net Neutrality": Digital Discrimination or Regulatory Gamesmanship in Cyberspac

Executive Summary A heated dispute erupted in late 2002 between corporate giants in the high-tech sector over how the networks owned by cable and telecom companies will be governed in t...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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Is America Exporting Misguided Telecommunications Policy? The U.S.-Japan Telecom

Executive Summary Global telecommunications markets have traditionally been closed to foreign trade and investment. Recent World Trade Organization negotiations resulted in a Basic Tele...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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Birth of the Digital New Deal: An Inventory of High-Tech Pork-Barrel Spending, C

Executive Summary Congressional spending sprees are nothing new in Washington. But now, new spending initiatives are cropping up that cover telecommunications services, the Internet, an...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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Online Travel Services: The Antitrust Assault on Orbitz--and on Consumers, Cato

Executive Summary Orbitz, which sells airline tickets to travelers over the Internet, is owned by 5 major airlines and affiliated with 30 more. Its charter requires it to display flight...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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Broadband Deployment and the Digital Divide: A Primer, Cato Policy Analysis No.

Executive Summary In the New Deal of the 1930s the Rural Electrification Administration used federal subsidies to extend electricity to rural and isolated communities across the country...
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A 10-Point Agenda for Comprehensive Telecom Reform, Cato Briefing Paper No. 63

Executive Summary Changing committee chairmanships in Congress and a leadership shakeup at the Federal Communications Commission have once again opened a window of opportunity for comprehensive ...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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Open Access Private Interests and the Emerging Broadband Market, Cato Policy Ana

Executive Summary The debate over open access to new cable broadband networks marks the first significant entry of Internet service providers (ISPs) into the great game of using the regulatory p...
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Silicon Valley versus Corporate Welfare, Cato Briefing Paper No. 37

Executive Summary The estimated $65 billion a year that the federal government now spends on corporate welfare programs harms U.S. industry in general and Silicon Valley companies in particular. T...
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Electric Avenues: Why "Open Access" Can't Compete, Cato Policy Analysis No. 301

Executive Summary The regulation of electricity markets is changing rapidly. So far, the changes affect only the generation of electricity. The deregulation of transmission and distribution is n...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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