Considerable attention has in recent years been focused on consumer choice regarding platforms and conditions for accessing various kinds of content via the Internet. The main focus has been on the supply of Internet access networks – cable, wireline telco, satellite, wireless – from which consumers can choose as means to get to the content [...]

April 17, 2009
Senator John F. Kerry
218 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510
Dear Chairman Kerry:
You and your colleagues will very likely soon receive a petition from members of Free Press urging you to launch “an investigation of Time Warner Cable’s plans to impose an unfair penalty against Internet users.” The correspondence will be motivated in substantial [...]

April 17, 2009
 
 
Congressman Rick Boucher
 2187 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
 
 
Dear Chairman Boucher:
 
            You and your colleagues will very likely soon receive a petition from members of Free Press urging you to launch “an investigation of Time Warner Cable’s plans to impose an unfair penalty against Internet users.”  The correspondence will be motivated in substantial [...]

This investigative report finds that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) may be overcharging insurance companies who pass these costs along to consumers in the form of higher prices.  State laws require companies to electronically file financial and rate information with the NAIC, who set filing fees without state approval or review.  Effectively, states have given away their [...]