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The FCC Must Stay Strong on Open Infrastructure for Both Wired and Wireless Mobile Internet Access
October 22, 2013
As the FCC approaches another leadership transition, CCIA reiterates its commitment to the Obama Administration’s original objectives for enlightened telecommunications policy in the digital age. ...
CCIA Endorses International Effort Seeking Better Standards Setting
October 21, 2013
Geneva – A need for better efficiency in global standards has led five global organizations to launch an initiative supporting the modern paradigm for global open standards. With their initiative �...
CCIA Helps IGF Bring Internet Policy Issues Center Stage at Upcoming Bali Meeting
October 15, 2013
CCIA and our IDEA initiative are attending the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Bali, Indonesia next week (I’m attending for both) and we’re involved in several of the events taking place there ...
Internet, innovation at the centre of major WTO event
October 10, 2013
The WTO public forum is perhaps the most visible result of the WTO’s revised public relations strategy following its tumultuous 1999 Ministerial Conference in Seattle. In recent years, it has become...
CCIA Files Surveillance Comments with President’s Review Group
October 8, 2013
Late last week, CCIA submitted a set of comments to the President's Review Group on Intelligence Collection and Communications Technologies in response to their call for feedback on September 4th. Th...
CCIA Files Surveillance Comments with President's Review Group
October 8, 2013
Late last week, CCIA submitted a set of comments to the President's Review Group on Intelligence Collection and Communications Technologies in response to their call for feedback on September 4th. Th...
CCIA Signs Joint Letter Asking for Surveillance Transparency Legislation
September 30, 2013
The Computer & Communications Industry Association joined six dozen companies and associations in a joint letter to House and Senate Judiciary Committee leaders today to ask to move legislation...
FTC Votes To Begin Studying Cost Of Patent Trolls
September 27, 2013
Washington – The FTC has voted to seek public comments on a study that would examine companies whose main business is extorting money from patents, known as patent assertion entities (PAEs) or pat...
Merkel’s Big Win – What’s in for the IT sector?
September 26, 2013
The recent federal elections in Germany were truly historical. Apart from Angela Merkel’s resounding victory the German liberals, the smaller coalition partner of the last Merkel-led government, did...
Senators Introduce Bill to Curb Government Surveillance
September 26, 2013
Washington – Senators Richard Blumenthal, Rand Paul, Mark Udall and Ron Wyden have introduced bipartisan legislation this week to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to curtail th...
CCIA Asks Supreme Court to Help #fixpatents in Wild Tangent Case
September 24, 2013
CCIA filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to grant cert in the WildTangent case. This case could help fix patents and clarify some of the confusion that has come out of recent decisions...