Another American Enterprise Institute scholar, Roslyn Layton, was added to the FCC landing team of President-elect Donald Trump, his transition team said Tuesday in a release on various appointments. Layton is a critic of FCC orders on net neutrality and broadband privacy and efforts to regulate set-top boxes, a skeptic of regulating zero-rating plans, and a proponent of government-industry spectrum sharing.
LeEco landed the first U.S. retail distribution for its smartphones and TVs, the company said in a Tuesday announcement trumpeting its partnership with the new DirecTV Now streaming service (see 1611280058). But LeEco’s initial retail footprint will be small, and the bulk of its U.S. presence will remain through the LeMall.com 24/7 e-commerce store, the company said.
Another American Enterprise Institute scholar, Roslyn Layton, was added to the FCC landing team of President-elect Donald Trump, his transition team said Tuesday in a release on various appointments. Layton is a critic of FCC orders on net neutrality and broadband privacy and efforts to regulate set-top boxes, a skeptic of regulating zero-rating plans, and a proponent of government-industry spectrum sharing.
The transition team for President-elect Donald Trump added members Monday to its landing teams for the departments of Commerce and Justice. Ideagen CEO George Sifakis is a member of the Commerce group, and Hunton & Williams Managing Partner David Higbee is joining Justice’s. Higbee is "Vice-Chair of the firm’s Global Competition practice, based in Washington, DC, and works regularly on matters before the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice,” his firm’s website says. “David previously served at the Department of Justice as Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Chief of Staff of the Antitrust Division.”
The transition team for President-elect Donald Trump added members Monday to its landing teams for the departments of Commerce and Justice. Ideagen CEO George Sifakis is a member of the Commerce group, and Hunton & Williams Managing Partner David Higbee is joining Justice’s. Higbee is "Vice-Chair of the firm’s Global Competition practice, based in Washington, DC, and works regularly on matters before the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice,” his firm’s website says. “David previously served at the Department of Justice as Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Chief of Staff of the Antitrust Division.”
The transition team for President-elect Donald Trump added members Monday to its landing teams for the departments of Commerce and Justice. Ideagen CEO George Sifakis is a member of the Commerce group, and Hunton & Williams Managing Partner David Higbee is joining Justice’s. Higbee is "Vice-Chair of the firm’s Global Competition practice, based in Washington, DC, and works regularly on matters before the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice,” his firm’s website says. “David previously served at the Department of Justice as Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Chief of Staff of the Antitrust Division.”
The Trump transition team's Mark Jamison called for a new tech competition policy to keep pace with rapid change in the marketplace. "Our traditional approaches to markets are too static for tech," said Jamison, an American Enterprise Institute visiting fellow, in a commentary Monday. "Going back to the fundamentals seems like the right approach, but it will require us to battle our conditioning and accept that what appears to be detrimental market power may be a quickly-passing phase or evidence of great products." Jamison was named a member of the FCC landing team of President-elect Donald Trump's transition planning (see 1611210045 and 1611250022).
The Trump transition team's Mark Jamison called for a new tech competition policy to keep pace with rapid change in the marketplace. "Our traditional approaches to markets are too static for tech," said Jamison, an American Enterprise Institute visiting fellow, in a commentary Monday. "Going back to the fundamentals seems like the right approach, but it will require us to battle our conditioning and accept that what appears to be detrimental market power may be a quickly-passing phase or evidence of great products." Jamison was named a member of the FCC landing team of President-elect Donald Trump's transition planning (see 1611210045 and 1611250022).
CBP expanded its test of automation and prepayment of commercial truck single-crossing fees as part of an effort to eliminate cash and credit card collections, the agency said in a news release (here). Previously only at the Buffalo, Detroit and El Paso ports (see 1605020013), the program will now be available at all commercial land border crossings, it said. “Providing the trucking industry with an online payment option will ultimately decrease wait times and allow CBP officers to focus more closely on enforcement issues,” said Executive Assistant Commissioner, Office of Field Operations Todd Owen.
Trump transition team member Mark Jamison said the FCC is no longer needed, at least as presently constituted, and suggested the commission should be downsized and refocused on a core spectrum management mission, with many of its current functions turned over to other federal and state agencies. "Most of the original motivations for having an FCC have gone away," he wrote in an Oct. 21 commentary. But Jamison, director of the University of Florida's Public Utility Research Center, more recently lauded FCC chairmen of both political parties for providing strong and effective leadership that resists political pressures and preserves the agency's independence.