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Panelists Discuss Competition In Search At GMU
Academics studying everything from economics to competition among search engines and social media offered their theories on the marketplace as well as grounds for antitrust authority by regulators at George Mason University law school's second annual conference on Competition, Search and Social Media Wednesday.
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Posted By Heather Greenfield | 5/17/2012 3:54:21 PM
 
DOJ Investigating Verizon Cable Deal
One day after the AT&T’s takeover bid for T-Mobile collapsed, now it’s the other Bell that’s trying to eliminate competition.  Verizon is as aggressively ambitious as AT&T – it’s proposing to work with the cable monopolies to significantly curtail competition in both the wireless and fixed broadband markets.  

According to Bloomberg, Verizon’s recent deals to acquire spectrum from cable companies are under investigation by the Department of Justice.   
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Posted By Phillip Berenbroick | 12/21/2011 1:04:03 PM
 
The Premier League Case – Opportunities For The Single Digital Market

At the beginning of this month the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down its judgment on the long-awaited ‘Premier League rights’ case. The legal dispute arose in the UK involving exclusive broadcasting licenses for the live transmission of Premier League soccer games that prohibit the use of decoder cards bought from foreign broadcasters. The FA Premier League (FAPL), the licensor of Premier League live matches, licenses these transmission rights on a country-by-country basis under terms and conditions that vary widely across the EU. By engaging in simple price arbitrage some pubs obtained cheaper decoder cards from abroad circumventing the exclusive licensing structure operational on UK territory. 

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Posted By Jakob Kucharczyk | 10/27/2011 12:15:18 PM
 
IRS Tax Prep Not A Budget Solution
CCIA has long opposed efforts in Congress to implement “Return-Free Filing”, a proposal under which the IRS would fill out tax returns and send them to the taxpayer for approval -- rather than have taxpayers fill them out themselves.  We object to Return-Free due to factors such as government competition with the private sector, the IRS’s conflict of interest, and the effect on the fundamental relationship between taxpayers and government.
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Posted By Ken Kurokawa | 9/22/2011 4:09:30 PM
 
Search Engine Experts Tell Staffers If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It

Top experts on search engines told Capitol Hill staffers at an event organized by CCIA Tuesday that there is healthy competition among search engines.

Danny Sullivan, editor in chief of Search Engine Land, a website that reports on the online search market, said that it has never been unusual for businesses or advertisers to complain about where they come up in search results. What is new here he said is that businesses are arguing that their low rankings are an antitrust issue for the government to fix. 

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Posted By Heather Greenfield | 9/21/2011 2:03:29 PM
 
DOJ Enforces Antitrust Law on AT&T Takeover - Despite Political Pressure
The Department of Justice's decision to block AT&T's takeover of its competitor T-Mobile came as no surprise to antitrust experts. As CCIA's CEO said in his Huffington Post column, it was a "no brainer."

But still, the lawsuit was reassuring to those who have  spent enough time in Washington to know that sometimes the good of the many can be trumped by the louder , politically well connected voice of one company or special interest.

CCIA commended the DOJ in a Washington Times op ed this week for standing in the face of political pressure and blocking this merger. In the end DOJ sorted through conflicting information and determined this merger would cost jobs in the short run and innovation in the long run. Again, not really news. When has a merger ever really resulted in job increases?

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Posted By Heather Greenfield | 9/15/2011 5:15:03 PM
 
Independent Jobs Study Disputes AT&T’s Claims

A study performed by University of California at Irvine professor of economics David Neumark and released today confirms that AT&T's proposed take-over of T-Mobile, if approved, would cost the American economy tens-of-thousands of jobs.  The study shows that AT&T would shed jobs to eliminate redundancy and overlap in the merged company and reduce overall network investment.  Professor Neumark's work debunks the unsubstantiated claims AT&T has made to sell the merger to policymakers and regulators - namely that acquiring T-Mobile will lead to an increase in jobs.

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Posted By Ross Schulman | 9/1/2011 11:48:27 AM
 
 
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