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Two Think Minimum
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Brent Skorup and Eli Dourado on Airspace Auctions and Supersonic Aviation
Jan 13, 202000:36:42Tap to summarizeBrent Skorup is a lawyer and Senior Research Fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His research areas include telecommunications, transportation, technology regulation, and wireless policy. He serves on the FCC’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee and is the Vice Chair of the Competitive Access subcommittee. He has authored pieces in a wide variety of outlets and has appeared on different news outlets as well. Eli Dourado is an economist and recently served as Head of Global Policy and Communications at Boom Supersonic, and before that, as a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He has written on a wide range of technology policy issues including internet governance, intellectual property, cybersecurity and cryptocurrency. His focus on aviation innovation includes topics such as commercial drones, supersonic flight, and flying cars. His popular writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and other outlets, and he was formally an advisor to the State Department on international telecommunication matters. Get full access to TPInsights at tpinsights.substack.com/subscribe
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Jonathan Make Discusses the Top Telecom Stories of 2019
Dec 30, 201900:42:28Tap to summarizeExecutive editor of Communications Daily and telecom reporter extraordinary Jonathan Make joins Scott Wallsten and Sarah Oh in a discussion of the top telecom stories of 2019, including Julius Knapp's retirement, broadband mapping, net neutrality, federalism, and 5G. Get full access to TPInsights at tpinsights.substack.com/subscribe
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Ligado Networks' President and CEO Doug Smith and Chief Legal Officer Valerie Green
Dec 16, 201900:32:37Tap to summarizeDoug Smith is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Ligado Networks and is responsible for directing the vision of the company and managing every aspect of its day to day operations. With more than 25 years of domestic and international telecom and wireless industry experience, Doug has engineered, built and launched nationwide networks for GTE, Nextel, Sprint Nextel and Clearwire. Valerie Green is Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of Ligado Networks and is responsible for the company's legal public affairs and regulatory activities. Prior to joining Ligado, Valerie served in the Obama Administration as Assistant to the President and Director of Presidential Personnel. She also served in the White House as Deputy Special Counsel to the President and Special Assistant to the President and she started her career as a litigator with several prominent law firms. Get full access to TPInsights at tpinsights.substack.com/subscribe
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Bryan Tramont of Wilkinson Barker Knauer on C-Band and the Future of Spectrum Policy
Dec 9, 201900:28:25Tap to summarizeBryan Tramont is Managing Partner of Wilkinson Barker Knauer, a top tier law firm according to Chambers and Legal 500 Bryan offers strategic counsel to Fortune 100 companies, trade associations, small and midsize telecommunications and media companies, on all aspects of communications, law and regulation. Bryan has also served as Chief of Staff and Senior Legal Advisor for FCC Chairman Michael Powell. His other top level FCC gigs have included at Senior Legal Advisor to Commissioners Kathleen Abernathy and Harold Furchtgott-Roth. He's been recognized as one of the nation's top communications lawyers. If there's a list he's on it, including 2016 Lawyer of the Year in Communications law and the top 10 Washington DC Super Lawyer, 2017 Lawyer of the year in media law, was named in 2017 to be Inaugural Legal 500 Hall of Fame, and Lawyer of the Year in 2020 edition of Best Lawyers in America, which is amazing cause it's not even 2020 yet. So, and although there's no award for it, Bryan is also known throughout the telecom world regardless of your economic or political leanings or company you work for or represent, as not just a super insider, unmatched knowledge, but also the friendliest, most helpful and most honest person around. Get full access to TPInsights at tpinsights.substack.com/subscribe
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Telecom and Spectrum in Mexico with Judith Mariscal
Nov 25, 201900:30:25Tap to summarizeJudith Mariscal is a professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) and Executive Director of the Cyber Policy Center for Latin America. She's a leading telecommunications scholar and easily the most knowledgeable and thoughtful person on telecom in Mexico.For the last few years we've seen lots of big changes, not just in politics in Mexico, but in the telecommunications sector and one of the biggest issues that possibly has broader lessons for the rest of the world is the story of Red Compartida, the wholesale network, where the government provided a 90 MHz block to the 700 MHz spectrum band and awarded build out to a company. It's been hugely controversial. Judith helps explain what's happening. Get full access to TPInsights at tpinsights.substack.com/subscribe
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MIT Sloan Professor Catherine Tucker on Privacy, Antitrust, and the Value of Data
Nov 12, 201900:37:54Tap to summarizeCatherine Tucker is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and a Professor of Marketing at MIT Sloan. She is also Chair of the MIT Sloan PhD Program. Her research interests lie in how technology allows firms to use digital data and machine learning to improve performance, and in the challenges this poses for regulation. Tucker has particular expertise in online advertising, digital health, social media, and electronic privacy. Her research studies the interface between marketing, the economics of technology, and law. Disclosure Statement: https://mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu/cetucker/disclosure/. Professor Tucker’s disclosure statement lists companies she has consulted for, grants she has received, relationships with academics working at a variety of firms, and entities in which she has a significant financial interest. The statement follows the guidelines set out by MIT, American Economic Review, and NBER. Get full access to TPInsights at tpinsights.substack.com/subscribe
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BT Director of Regulatory Affairs Cathryn Ross on the Economics of Regulation
Oct 28, 201900:30:57Tap to summarizeCathryn Ross is director of regulatory affairs at BT. Before that, she was head of Ofwat (Water Services Regulation Authority.) She joins TPI Senior Fellow Bob Hahn on this wide-ranging discussion of the economics of regulation. Get full access to TPInsights at tpinsights.substack.com/subscribe
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BigID CEO Dimitri Sirota Brings Fresh Ideas to Privacy Debate
Oct 9, 201900:24:58Tap to summarizeDimitri Sirota is CEO and cofounder of BigID. Sirota is the CEO of one of the first enterprise privacy management platforms called BigID and a privacy and identity expert. He is an established serial entrepreneur, investor, mentor and strategist and previously founded two enterprise software companies focused on security and API management, Layer Seven technologies which was sold to CA Technologies in 2013. Get full access to TPInsights at tpinsights.substack.com/subscribe
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Former FTC Chair Timothy Muris and Jonathan Nuechterlein Discuss Antitrust in the Internet Era
Oct 7, 201900:40:19Tap to summarizeTim Muris is a former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and currently a George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law, at Scalia Law School and Senior Counsel at the law firm Sidley-Austin. He has substantial experience in every aspect of antitrust enforcement as well as in key consumer protection issues, including advertising, consumer finance and privacy regulation. During his lengthy tenure with the FTC, Mr. Muris held multiple high-level posts and was the only person ever to direct both of the FTC’s enforcement bureaus. It was under his leadership that the FTC established the National Do Not Call Registry and brought numerous high-profile cases against firms for misusing government practices to raise prices. Professor Muris has held three previous positions at the Commission: Assistant Director of the Planning Office (1974-1976), Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection (1981-1983), and Director of the Bureau of Competition (1983-1985). After leaving the FTC in 1985, Muris served with the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget for three years.Jon Neuchterlein is a partner and co-leader of Sidley’s Telecom and Internet Competition practice, focuses on telecommunications law, antitrust, and appellate litigation. He rejoined the firm in 2016 after serving as General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission. Jon’s extensive government experience also includes positions as Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission, as Assistant to the Solicitor General, and as law clerk to D.C. Circuit Judge Stephen Williams and Supreme Court Justice David Souter. He is the author (with Phil Weiser) of a widely cited treatise on telecommunications law and policy. The Best Lawyers in America recently named Jon as the 2019 “Lawyer of the Year” for Communications Law in Washington, D.C. As the FTC’s General Counsel from 2013 to 2016, Jon represented the FTC in court, provided legal counsel on a range of antitrust and consumer protection issues, and oversaw the Commission’s appellate litigation activities.Their paper, "Antitrust in the Internet Era: The Legacy of United States v. A&P", can be found at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-019-09685-7 Get full access to TPInsights at tpinsights.substack.com/subscribe
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Former FTC Chairman William Kovacic on the Future of the FTC and Antitrust
Sep 17, 201900:50:21Tap to summarizeProfessor William Kovacic is the Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy, Professor of Law, and Director of the Competition Law Center at George Washington University Law School. Bill has many years of experience as an antitrust scholar and practitioner, serving at the Federal Trade Commission as Chairman (2008-2009), Commissioner (2006-2011), and General Counsel (2001-2004). Get full access to TPInsights at tpinsights.substack.com/subscribe
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