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Check here for Media Releases about upcoming reports and events. Below is a list of our releases, and to the left is an archive of press clippings from our previous events. If you have any questions, please contact us. If you would like to receive releases and updates via email, please sign up.

NMRC MEDIA RELEASES

REPORT: Directions for the Next New Age of Telecom Regulation (PDF)
Jan. 6, 2004
The report’s four authors recommend that government regulators develop policies that allow telecom companies to focus on innovation, unfettered competition, and consumer benefits to jumpstart the industry. The report finds that current pricing policies inhibit network investment, and that a deregulated telecom sector will benefit consumers, create jobs, and provide a much-needed boost to economic recovery.
[NMRC Media Release] (PDF)
[Full Report] (PDF)

REPORT: Reflections and Directions: Twenty Years After the Divestiture of AT&T; (PDF)
Dec. 30, 2003
The four authors of the NMRC report find that consumers have experienced a ‘rocky road’ over the last two decades but now benefit from a plethora of new choices on how to communicate in the wake of the AT&T; break-up 20 years ago on January 1, 1984. But the court-ordered divestiture and two decades of ensuing laws and rules has been a decidedly mixed bag for the telecom industry, the report notes.
[NMRC Media Release] (PDF)
[Full Report] (PDF)
[Media Coverage]

REPORT: The Future of Internet Phone Calling: Regulatory Imperatives to Protect the Promise of VoIP for Industry and Consumers (PDF)
Dec. 16, 2003
This NMRC report finds that an unsettled regulatory picture could threaten emerging VoIP services with unresolved regulatory questions. The consensus of authors of this report call on the FCC to (1) develop a clear national VoIP framework; (2) subject VoIP applications that function like telecom services to certain telephony rules; (3) regulate all VoIP service providers equally; and (4) ensure that statutory social responsibilities are met.
[ NMRC Media Release ] (PDF)
[Full Report] (PDF)
[Audio of Press Call]
[Media Coverage]

REPORT: Is Phone "Competition at the Crossroads?": An Analysis of the Consumer Federation of America’s Local Competition Study
Dec. 9, 2003
This CEI/NMRC report finds that the CFA study takes positions and makes claims not supported by empirical evidence and misapplies data to support conclusions. The CFA study paints a picture that competition has failed in the telecom industry. The CEI and NMRC report authors, Solveig Singleton and Stephen Pociask, strongly dispute these CFA study claims.
[ NMRC Media Release ] (PDF)
[ Full Report ] (PDF Format)
[ Media Coverage ]

REPORT: Being Served: Broadband Competition in the Small and Medium Sized Business Market
October 20, 2003
This jointly released Pacific Research Institute (PRI) and NMRC study shows fierce competition in the SME Broadband market. PRI's Sonia Arrison documents that the SME market is well served by multiple broadband providers.
[ NMRC Media Release ]
[ Full Report ] (PDF Format)
[Media Coverage]

REPORT: NMRC releases Criterion Economics Report, "The Effect of Ubiquitous Broadband Adoption on Investment, Jobs and the U.S. Economy"
September 17, 2003
This report highlights the range of new U.S. jobs possible and billions of dollars per year in consumer value resulting from wider use of broadband technology.
[ NMRC Media Release ]
[ Full Report ] (PDF Format)
[Media Coverage]
[Audio of Press Call]

REPORT: Digital Rights Management: A Balanced Scorecard Of Stakeholder Views September 15, 2003
This "scorecard" of stakeholder views regarding DRM highlights common ground among factions (e.g., content industry, tech industry, ISPs, consumers, etc.) and opportunities for bridge building. It provides readers with easy-to-track information on key players and their issues, essential reading for reporters, policy wonks, and the general public.
[ NMRC Media Release ]
[ Full Report ] (PDF Format)
[Media Coverage]

REPORT: Universal Service: Do Consumers Lose Under a Connections Based Approach? June 17, 2003
Diverse range of experts including James A. Bachtell (Georgetown University Law Center); Matthew Bennett, (APT); Mark Cooper, (CFA); Larry F. Darby, (Darby Associates); Jeffrey Kramer (AARP); and, Leroy Watson, (National Grange); highlight how changing the Universal Service Fund to a "connection tax" basis will harm low-income, low-volume and rural consumers in the U.S.
[ NMRC Media Release ]
[ Full Report ] (PDF Format)
[Audio of Press Call]
[Media Coverage]

REPORT: The Effects of Bargain Wholesale Prices on Local Telephone Competition: Does Helping Competitors Help Consumers?
June 16, 2003
CEI (Singleton) and NMRC (Hepner) jointly release the first study quantifying the pocketbook cost to consumers of artificially low wholesale prices for telecommunications services required under current federal unbundled network element (UNE) and UNE-P rules. Stephen B. Pociask, president, TeleNomic Research authors this examination.
[ NMRC Media Release ]
[ Full Report ] (PDF Format)
[Audio of Press Call]
[Media Coverage]

REPORT: What's at Stake at the FCC on UNEs: Ensuring Sustainable Competition February 4, 2003
NMRC examines whether UNE-P is promoting investment in advanced telecom infrastructure, with papers by Matthew D. Bennett (APT), John Malone (EMG), Randolph J. May (PFF), Stephen B. Pociask (TeleNomic Research) and Solveig Singleton (CEI).
[ NMRC Media Release ]
[ Full Report ] (PDF Format)

Panel Discussion - Retoothing the Tiger: Restoring Confidence in the Securities and Exchange Commission
January 15, 2003
[View Event on Heritage.org]
[Media Coverage]

Experts Debate Bankruptcy Policy: Many Worry Scandal-Plagued Worldcom Will Be Rewarded Sept. 27, 2002

Price Regulation Study Highlights Potential Risk of Returning to Traditional Rate of Return Regulation June 19, 2002

NMRC Study Finds Over 1.2 Million Jobs Created as a Result of Accelerated Broadband Deployment Feb 25, 2002

The New State of Competition in the Telecommunications Industry Nov 15, 2001