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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 [...]

By STEVE POCIASK
Special To The Tampa Tribune
Published: March 3, 2010
If an insurance company sold you a homeowner’s policy knowing that, if disaster was to strike, it probably couldn’t pay your claim, you would call that “consumer fraud” - plain and simple. If private insurance companies were to instigate such a scam, the insurance commissioner would [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This Los Angeles Times article discusses the high cost of computer printer ink and the lack of product labeling on ink cartridges.  The article cites ACI’s 2007 study on the issue.  The Times article discusses efforts by the organization — National Conference on Weights and Measures — to investigate the issue.  To read the entire article in the Times, [...]

Study concludes net neutrality and other regulations on network providers would have an adverse impact on the economy and employment
 

WASHINGTON – Today on Capitol Hill, the American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research released the findings of a study examining the impact of policies, including ‘network neutrality,’ on job creation and national broadband deployment. The [...]