Technology & Telecom
WPC's Technology & Telecom Project focuses on wireless regulations, access to broadband internet, wireline regulatory environment, open source issues, telecom regulations, video franchise reform, technology and privacy issues, and more.
Publications
When Government Enters the Telecommunications Market: An Assessment of Tacoma's Click! Network
Paul Guppy, Vice President for Research
, June, 2001Tacoma Public Utilities (TPU) was founded more than a century ago as Tacoma City Light and was granted monopoly status and the charter to “meet community needs for electricity.” More recently the utility has expanded its mission. In 1997 TPU embarked on an ambitious experiment to build a publicly-funded telecommunications system called the Click! Network. The system was intended to provide high-speed access for cable television, data transmission and Internet services for TPU customers.
When Government Enters the Telecommunications Market: An Assessment of Tacoma’s Click! Network
Paul Guppy, Vice President for Research
, June, 2001In 1997 Tacoma Public Utilities (TPU) embarked on an ambitious experiment to build a publicly-funded telecommunications system called the Click! Network. The system was intended to provide high-speed access for cable television, data transmission and Internet services for TPU customers.
Judge's Mistakes Provide Good Reasons for Overturning Case Against Microsoft
Paul Guppy, Vice President for Research
, April, 2001A federal appeals court is expected to decide this spring whether to overturn Judge Penfield Jackson’s ruling to break up Microsoft. Many believe the best way to predict the outcome is to examine the merits of the case, as the appeals court judges are doing. What is often overlooked, however, are the serious flaws in the way the case was presented in the first place. The weaknesses in the case itself are examined in another Washington Institute Policy Note.
The Many Flaws in the Case Against Microsoft
Paul Guppy, Vice President for Research
, April, 2001A federal appeals court in Washington D.C. will soon decide whether, as the federal government contends, Microsoft is an illegal monopoly. The court is reviewing the ruling of trial judge Thomas Penfield Jackson that Microsoft violated federal anti-trust laws. He has determined Microsoft should suffer the severest penalty possible: the break-up of the company.
New Proposals to Tax the Internet
Richard A. Derham, Former President, Washington Institute
, January, 2000By enacting Initiative 695 in November 1999, Washington voters declared themselves to be overtaxed and not willing to take it anymore. Not only did they reduce state taxes by $750 million a year, the largest tax cut in state history, by repealing the Motor Vehicle Excise Tax (MVET), but they determined that all future tax increases must be referred to a public vote.
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