American Consumer Institute Applauds Passage of Wireless Tax Fairness Act Encourages Senate to take swift action to protect wireless consumers WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of Representatives today overwhelmingly approved the Wireless Tax Fairness Act of 2011 – legislation that will protect consumers with a five-year ban on new state and local government-imposed wireless taxes [...]

WASHINGTON – Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski today unveiled his plan to reform the Universal Service Fund. The following quote should be attributed to Steve Pociask, president of the American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research. “Today’s speech by Commissioner Genachowski represents an important step forward on reforming the Universal Service Fund and ensuring [...]

On Thursday, June 30, The American Consumer Institute held an event discussing “Competition in the Internet Ecosystem.”  ACI President Steve Pociask moderated a discussion of the evolving conception of modular competition in the Internet ecosystem’s broadband value circle.  Discussants included Everett Ehrlich (ESC Company & Former Undersecretary of Commerce for President Clinton), Nicol Turner-Lee (Joint [...]

The FTC announced today that Google has agreed to a settlement over privacy violations stemming from Google Buzz. The controversy stems from the fact that Google did not notify its “Gmail” users that Google Buzz would use and potentially expose their email account information. Many users complained when they were caught off guard. Jon Leibowitz, [...]

“Consumers would greatly benefit from public policies that end high and discriminatory rates on wireless telecommunications services,” according to American Consumer Institute President Stephen Pociask.

The Heartland Institute, one of the premier National think tanks, wrote a Blog on our recent ConsumerGram dealing with woeful state of insurance regulation in Florida.  You can reach the Heartland Institutes’s blog at http://outofthestormnews.com/?p=1522 and the ACI ConsumerGram at florida-insurance-post-election3

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                                                                                     American Consumer Institute Reacts to FCC Open Meeting on Broadband Reclassification   WASHINGTON – Following the Federal Communications Commission’s open meeting today, Steve Pociask, president of the American Consumer Institute, released the following statement:   “Why is the Federal Communications Commission determined to continue down this track of reclassifying [...]

We are pleased to announced the addition of Professor Andy Puckett as a finance expert for the American Consumer Institute.  Dr. Puckett is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance at the University of Tennessee.  He joined the University of Tennessee faculty in 2009 from the University of Missouri, where he taught investments to both [...]