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CCIA Warns of Competitive Harm of AT&T-Comcast Merger

Consumers Union, Consumer Federation of America Highlight Consumer Harm at Joint News Conference Washington, DC - The Computer & Communications Industry Association today appeared with two of...

CCIA Warns of Competitive Harm of AT&T-Comcast Merger

Consumers Union, Consumer Federation of America Highlight Consumer Harm at Joint News Conference Washington, DC - The Computer & Communications Industry Association today appeared with two of the...

CCIA Objects to Online Personal Privacy Act

Washington, DC - The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) announced its opposition to new privacy legislation introduced by Senator Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) today. The bill is Sen...

CCIA: MORE SPECTRUM FOR MOBILE DEVICES MEANS MORE PROSPERITY FOR THE U.S.

Washington, DC - The Computer & Communications Industry Association today asked President Bush to devote a large swath of the nation's underused airwaves to high-speed, wireless voice and data ser...

CCIA Opposes Federal Technology Mandates

Washington, DC - The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) today announced its opposition to legislation proposed yesterday by Senator Fritz Hollings (D-South Carolina). The Consum...

CCIA Urges FTC and DoJ to Broaden Intellectual Property Policy Role

Washington, DC - The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) President & CEO, Ed Black, testifying today before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (...

CCIA Statement On Sun Microsystems Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft

Washington, DC - Ed Black, President & CEO of The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), released the following statement today in response to Sun Microsystems filing a private...

Microsoft/DoJ offer little in Revised Settlement

Washington, DC - Microsoft and the Department of Justice late last night proposed a new settlement in the historic antitrust proceedings against the PC operating-system monopoly. The proposal’s b...

CCIA Seeks to Intervene in Microsoft Settlement Hearing

Justice Department, Microsoft want rubber stamp, not public participation Washington, DC – The court overseeing the proposed Microsoft antitrust settlement must hear directly from outside parties b...

CCIA Opposes Speech Restrictions on the Internet

Washington, DC - A proposed addition to an international computer crime treaty endangers free speech and could impose broad liability on Internet service providers and websites if ratified, the Comput...

Treasury, IRS Announce Efforts to Expand Tax E-Filing

Washington, DC - The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service today announced an initiative to expand electronic filing opportunities for taxpayers. The announcement was made as part of the Ad...

Nobel Prize Winner Declares Settlement Weak and Ineffective

Washington, DC - Economist and Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Yale University Lecturer Jason Furman today told a federal court it must reject the proposed antitrust settlement between Microsoft an...