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BigGovernment.Com has an activite blog underway that discusses the finding of ACI’s studies on Jobs, consumer welfare, and (most recently) IT innovation.  To read the piece and contribute their blog, click here.

WASHINGTON – The American Consumer Institute (ACI) announced today that it is placing a strong focus on statewide issues in Florida for 2010.  The organization’s announcement comes after substantial review of a variety of state issues that affect the majority of Florida’s consumers, including property insurance and telecommunications.

 
ACI’s Center for Citizen Research has established a Florida-focused [...]

To read Maisie Ramsay’s Wireless Week article “Think Tank: Net Neutrality Rules Harmful, Unnecessary,” please click here.
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Net Neutrality Will Hurt Private Investment, Impede Consumer Friendly Innovations

WASHINGTON - The American Consumer Institute released today a study on innovation by companies in the Internet ecosystem.  The study, which surveyed available data and literature, found that broadband network providers are a leading source of both innovation and new investment in Internet infrastructures. 
 
The study [...]

Latest Study Consistent with Findings Showing Internet Regulations as a Detriment to Consumers, Broadband Investment and the Economy
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
At the State of Union Address, President Obama identified jobs as the “number one focus” for the year – and no wonder. While the unemployment rate dipped from December to January from 10.0% to 9.7%, the [...]

On February 16th 2010, the Washington Times ran an op-ed written by Steve Pociask of ACI that gives the results of a recent study on IT jobs.  That study showed that (for every dollar of revenue) Internet Service Providers are investing more and creating more jobs than other companies on the network’s edge.  However, the FCC is [...]

February 10, 2010
Chairman Julius Genachowski
Commissioner Michael J. Copps
Commissioner Robert M. McDowell
Commissioner Mignon Clyburn
Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker
Regarding GN Docket No. 09-191 and WC Docket No. 07-52
Dear Commissioners:
This letter and its attachment respond to recent comments filed by parties that cite a study by the S. Derek Turner of the Free Press titled “Finding the Bottom [...]

Washington, DC, February 5, 2010 –– We applaud yesterday’s statement by the U.S. Department of Justice expressing its problems with the proposed Google Book Search Settlement, stating that the settlement is “an attempt to use the class action mechanism to implement forward-looking business arrangements that go far beyond the dispute before the court in this [...]

Will Proposed Net Neutrality Regulations Lead to Fewer IT Jobs?
On January 28th, Dr. Larry Darby, Senior Fellow and Former FCC Bureau Chief, presented the findings of ACI’s latest study “The Internet Ecosystem: Employment Impacts of National Broadband Policies.”  The study authored by Larry Darby, Joseph Fuhr and Stephen Pociask shows that network companies employ twice [...]