Brussels – The European Commission has proposed its long-awaited telecommunications reforms Wednesday evening, designed to bring simpler rules for telecom companies offering service throughout Europe and giving consumers more rights to reach the platforms and content of their choice on the Internet. The Computer & Communications Industry Association today praised the proposal as it creates…
As the economy shows increasing signs of recovery and growth, many Internet companies see overseas markets as the next stage of that growth. But to fully realize that growth for the technology industry, laws would need to be modernized so companies can expand trade deals rather than lawsuits. This matters because the tech industry is…
Brussels – The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), the international organisation for the Internet industries, is today releasing two studies about the 21st century consumer and broadband. These precede the likely adoption of a Regulation on telecommunications by the European Commission next week. First, a survey of 934 consumers in Italy, France and Germany…
A week before the European Commission is expected to adopt a telecommunications Regulation, CCIA is releasing two consumer surveys it commissioned on switching costs and broadband consumption. The studies offer details on what services create demand for higher speed access and why rules may be needed to ensure hundreds of millions of Europeans have recourse…
CCIA congratulates Facebook on the release yesterday of their first transparency report. The report, which lists the numbers of government requests for information about Facebook users, will serve to increase users’ trust. Reports such as these have become popular among web companies that store users’ data for them and Facebook’s report helps add to that growing body of information. The…
CCIA congratulates Facebook on the release yesterday of their first transparency report. The report, which lists the numbers of government requests for information about Facebook users, will serve to increase users’ trust. Reports such as these have become popular among web companies that store users’ data for them and Facebook’s report helps add to that growing body of information. The…
The Government Accountability Office has released a new study on patent litigation and patent trolls Thursday. The study finds evidence that patent trolls are a growing problem; it also finds that a main reason they are able to abuse the legal system is low quality patents. The Computer & Communications Industry Association has been lobbying for more than…
Technology trade associations have sent a joint letter Tuesday asking the White House to take three key steps to better protect civil liberties and innovation as the government collects private data on citizens. The Computer & Communications Industry Association has been a longtime voice against government surveillance without checks and balances, and joined other associations at a…
The Computer & Communications Industry Association has released a new research paper today, “The Search Fixation: Infringement, Search Results and Online Content.” The first of a series of research pieces to better inform public policy, this paper finds that recent claims by the recording industry that search engines are a major driver of traffic to…
