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AT&T Files FCC Paperwork To Gobble Up Another Competitor, CCIA Asks FCC For Public Hearings

AT&T has filed official paperwork to gobble another competitor with the agency charged with protecting the public interest and competition in a vital industry.  That agency, the FCC, had already ...

2011 Caucus Registration Opens

Online registration for CCIA's 2011 Washington Caucus is now available. The Washington Caucus has grown over the years into a unique dialogue between technology executives and the Members of Congre...
  • Blog
  • Privacy & Security
  • US

Senators Begin Tackling Some Privacy Issues, Government Privacy Practices Pending

Senators Kerry and McCain introduced a privacy bill yesterday, that aims to protect consumers without unnecessarily burdening privacy industry. Privacy, trust, and innovation can go hand in hand and t...

Senators Introduce Online Privacy Legislation

Senators John Kerry, D-Mass., and John McCain, R-Ariz., are introducing online privacy legislation this afternoon. They say the goal is to update outdated laws to protect Americans privacy online and ...
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  • EU

CCIA’s Requested Comments on Europe’s IPR Enforcement Directive

Brussels – CCIA stressed the importance of the Internet as a platform for artists and entrepreneurs to create, innovate and reach new markets across the world in its comments on intellectual propert...
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  • EU

CCIA's Requested Comments on Europe's IPR Enforcement Directive

Brussels – CCIA stressed the importance of the Internet as a platform for artists and entrepreneurs to create, innovate and reach new markets across the world in its comments on intellectual propert...
  • Blog
  • US

House Hearing on Visas For Highly Skilled Workers

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services started accepting visa petitions for FY 2012 for highly skilled workers this month. Last week, the Immigration Policy and Enforcement Subcommittee of the ...
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  • US
  • Telecom

Why AT&T Merger Would Delay Next Generation Networks

AT&T asserts that acquiring T-Mobile will allow it to roll out its next-generation wireless network.  However, what they don’t say is that the potential merger will actually delay, rather that ...
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  • US
  • Telecom

Why AT&T Merger Would Delay Next Generation Networks

AT&T asserts that acquiring T-Mobile will allow it to roll out its next-generation wireless network.  However, what they don’t say is that the potential merger will actually delay, rather that ...
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  • US
  • Competition
  • Telecom

AT&T Swallows Competition – Haven’t We Seen this Movie Before?

This all seems eerily familiar.  AT&T uses JP Morgan’s money to buy-out up-start competitors.  The firm argues to antitrust authorities that its monopolist tendencies will provide the benefit ...
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  • US
  • Competition
  • Telecom

AT&T Swallows Competition – Haven’t We Seen this Movie Before?

This all seems eerily familiar.  AT&T uses JP Morgan’s money to buy-out up-start competitors.  The firm argues to antitrust authorities that its monopolist tendencies will provide the benefit ...

WIPO Member-states Reject Open-ended Regulation Of Internet Intermediaries

The Computer & Communications Industry Association welcomes the decision  of UN member-states participating in the development of international trademark law at the World Intellectual Property O...