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View ArticleACI in the Daily Caller: Net Neutrality: a Light at the End of the Pipe?
The Network Neutrality saga began a decade ago when “bits just wannabe free” thinking embraced a theme of socialized broadband benefits from privatized investment. The early, aggressive Net Neutrality...
View ArticleNet Neutrality – What’s Outside the Gate?
Content purveyors are asking a big political favor from regulators – regulate Internet delivery networks by controlling the speeds and prices those firms are allowed to offer to everyone. Under a...
View ArticleThe Consumer Costs of Net Neutrality
Proponents of regulating Internet services and service providers, called net neutrality, have seen their cause take a hit in recent months, but that’s not stopping them from finding other avenues to...
View ArticleFCC Filing: Evidence of Harm from Net Neutrality
Yesterday, The American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research (ACI) filed reply comments to the FCC’s Open Internet proceeding (GN 14-28 and GN 09-191). The reply was filed with four...
View ArticleProof: Regulating the Internet Means Consumers Pay More
The American Consumer Institute sent an Ex Parte letter to the commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission explaining how the proposed reclassification of broadband services from an...
View ArticleRegulations Could Soon Increase Your Broadband Prices
This piece, written for the American Enterprise Institute’s Tech Policy Daily blog explains why regulating broadband service providers like public utilities will guarantee that consumers will pay...
View ArticleYour Internet Prices Could Go Up Due to Taxes: ACI Quoted in Multichannel News
The following quote comes from Multichannel News and the entire piece can be read online: “Internet Service Providers currently pay taxes, as do many other businesses. Telecommunications services and...
View ArticleACI in Forbes: FCC Order Means Higher Consumer Prices
Today’s Forbes published a piece by ACI president Steve Pociask that discusses one of the myths being pushed by the FCC in justifying its order. This piece shows that consumer broadband taxes will...
View ArticleFCC Gleefully Embroidering Last Century’s Regulations
The transition from a copper telephone network to an all IP fiber network has been noteworthy. Already 30% of consumers use voice-over-Internet (VoIP) services instead of traditional copper-based...
View ArticleACI Calls on FCC to Reject Text Messaging Regulations
The FCC is currently accepting comments on a petition that seeks the application of 1930s-style common carrier regulations on text messaging services. Today, ACI called on the FCC to reject the...
View ArticleFORBES — A Faster Internet? Not With FCC Regulations
Does the FCC’s public utility-style regulation of wireline incumbent telephone companies (abbreviated here as ILECs) and their legacy copper-based voice services work to protect consumers or impede...
View ArticleThe FCC Grabs for More Power
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has created its own growth industry. The FCC keeps busy with inquiries and rulemakings for spectrum auctions, set top box sharing, special access circuit...
View ArticleThe Voters Wanted Growth – And They Can Have It
For many Americans, the key issue in the recent election was which path would lead to sustained growth and better incomes. That was what some candidates chose to focus on, but the issue remains central...
View ArticleACI in Forbes: The FCC’s Biggest Challenge Yet
FCC Chair Ajit Pai has not even hit his 100-day mark as chairman, but he is already on track to become the most consequential and arguably the most successful FCC leader in a generation. Fresh from his...
View ArticleACI Files FCC Comments on Restoring Internet Freedom
In this proceeding, the Federal Communications Commission considers preserving a free and open Internet by reducing government regulatory controls, while restoring market-based policies to encourage...
View ArticleRestoring Internet Freedom: ACI’s Reply Comments to the FCC
The American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research (ACI) is a nonprofit (501c3) educational and research institute with the mission to identify, analyze and project the interests of consumers...
View ArticleForbes: FCC Takes Positive Action to Encourage Broadband Policy
Under Chairman Ajit Pai’s leadership, the FCC’s constructive influence may rescind the regulatory imprisonment that has placed Internet services into Title II purgatory. Specifically, the FCC is...
View ArticleForget the Trendy Rants, Net Neutrality Shortchanges Consumers
Americans now depend on the Internet as an essential tool in their workday, their social interactions, their purchasing of goods and services, and their entertainment. And as the Internet evolves, so...
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