Archive: Center for Business and Public Policy
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Lawmakers focus on Amazon during antitrust hearing, grilling company on marketplace practices, Geekwire
Despite the attention the issue is getting, some antitrust experts remain skeptical that the scrutiny will amount to real changes. Larry Downes, director of Georgetown University’s Center for Business and Public Policy, said antitrust law would have to fundamentally change to pursue a successful case against the companies that testified.
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How Verizon-Owned Wireless Service Visible Is Getting More Appealing, Fortune
The usual big players trail in the prepaid market. Verizon had only 6% of the market last year, ranking fifth. The leader was TracPhone, a subsidiary of Mexican carrier América Móvil, with a 29% share, followed by T-Mobile, at 27%. AT&T captured 21% of the market and Sprint had a 16% share, according to a report by Anna-Maria Kovacs, a visiting scholar at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy and a former industry analyst. One concern for regulators weighing the proposed T-Mobile-Sprint merger is whether the resulting consolidation in the prepaid market would reduce competition and lead to higher prices.
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Mayo Named Elsa Carlson McDonough Chair of Business Administration
John Mayo was appointed the Elsa Carlson McDonough Chair of Business Administration based on the strength of his record of research and his intellectual leadership at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business.
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5G: What is it good for?
An op-ed by Larry Downes, project director, Center for Business and Public Policy: “5G, or 5th generation mobile, is the next big leap in wireless communications. You’ve probably heard about it in commercials or seen it in headlines. But much of the discussion about the new technology has been focused on its engineering features, infrastructure requirements and public policy considerations. With technical buzzwords like ‘network slicing,’ ‘beamforming,’ and ‘multi-access edge computing,’ it may be hard to really understand what 5G is all about and why we should care.”
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U.S. At Risk Of Losing Mid-Band 5G Race, Panelist Says
While the FCC is moving apace on ensuring there is sufficient low-band and high-band spectrum available for 5G wireless deployment, there is a “danger” of “losing the race” on mid-band spectrum to Southeast Asia, where government processes make it “a lot easier to clear spectrum,” an Ericsson public policy official said during a panel discussion of 5G issues this morning …organized by the Georgetown University Center for Business & Public Policy. Subscription required.
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Op-Ed: Why Shelter The Internet Edge Providers?
An op-ed by Anna Maria Kovacs, visiting policy scholar, Center for Business and Public Policy: “The Senate is about to vote on a resolution introduced under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 2017 Restoring Internet Freedom order and resurrect the FCC’s 2015 Open Internet order. The 2015 order applied no blocking of legal content, no throttling, no paid prioritization, enhanced transparency, and no unreasonable-interference rules to the providers of broadband Internet access (ISPs). It allows the FCC to regulate the ISPs as common carriers under laws that date back to 1934. However, the order explicitly and intentionally excludes Internet edge providers from these FCC regulations.”
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Why The 2020 Census Citizenship Question Matters In The 2018 Elections
An op-ed by Robert Shapiro, senior policy scholar, Center for Business and Public Policy: “The Decennial Census is a vital instrument in how Americans live their lives. Right now, the 2020 Census is at risk and, with it, much that matters to all of us.”
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Pushing Tech To Trump Country
“There is plenty tech companies can do, but I don’t think they are doing much of it,” said Larry Downes, a Berkeley, Calif.-based innovation scholar with the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy. “After the election, they got in private planes and flew to places like Oklahoma for a day for a listening tour. It was a lot of hyperbole.”
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The Politics of Machine-Learning Algorithms
An article by Mark MacCarthy, faculty affiliate, Center for Business and Public Policy: “Around 1200 BC, the Shang Dynasty in China developed a factory system to build thousands of huge bronze vessels for use in everyday life and ritual ceremonies. In this early example of mass production, the process of bronze casting required intricate planning and the coordination of large groups of workers, each performing a separate task in precisely the right order.”
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What Most People Get Wrong About Men And Women
An article by Cathy Tinsley, professor: “The conversation about the treatment of women in the workplace has reached a crescendo of late, and senior leaders—men as well as women—are increasingly vocal about a commitment to gender parity. That’s all well and good, but there’s an important catch. The discussions, and many of the initiatives companies have undertaken, too often reflect a faulty belief: that men and women are fundamentally different, by virtue of their genes or their upbringing or both. Of course, there are biological differences. But those are not the differences people are usually talking about. Instead, the rhetoric focuses on the idea that women are inherently unlike men in terms of disposition, attitudes, and behaviors. (Think headlines that tout ‘Why women do X at the office’ or ‘Working women don’t Y.’)”
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