Tag: Broadband
US: Sanders unveils $150B plan to expand high-speed internet access
On Friday, December 6, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Democrat - Vermont) announced a new plan aimed at expanding broadband internet access across the country and...
Australia: Regulator investigating broadband pricing
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is launching an investigation into whether customers have access to “basic” broadband plans at fair and affordable...
EU: Commission approves €60M in State aid for Austrian broadband project
The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, €60 million (US$66.6 million) of public support for the deployment and maintenance of infrastructure...
Italy: Telecoms merger pushed to break broadband logjam
Italy’s sovereign wealth fund is maneuvering to pull off a multibillion-euro telecoms merger and end a prolonged corporate stalemate that has held up Rome’s...
FTC Hearing on Broadband
April 2019
FTC Hearing on Broadband By Steven P. Vaughn (McDermott Will & Emery)1
The tenth of the FTC’s Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in...
US: FCC says court has no “Legal Authority” to impose Net...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) defended its rollback of Obama era net neutrality protections on Thursday, October 11, filing a legal brief with a...
Economic Findings Concerning the State of Competition for Wired Broadband Provision...
Posted by Social Science Research Network
Economic Findings Concerning the State of Competition for Wired Broadband Provision to US Households and Edge Providers
By David S....
Antitrust Provides a More Reasonable Regulatory Framework than Net Neutrality
Posted by Social Science Research Network
Antitrust Provides a More Reasonable Regulatory Framework than Net Neutrality
By Joshua D. Wright (George Mason University)
Abstract: In...
Competition and Vertical/Agglomeration Effects in Media Mergers: Bagging Bundle Benefits
Posted by Social Science Research Network
Competition and Vertical/Agglomeration Effects in Media Mergers: Bagging Bundle Benefits
By Bronwyn E. Howell (Victoria University of Wellington) & Petrus...
Australia: ACCC to allow NBN competitors to pass on levy
Australia's competition regulator will allow non-NBN (National Broadband Network) high-speed internet providers to pass on federal government's proposed $7-a-month levy for regional services to...
