“During the COVID-19 pandemic, digital tools have become indispensable to millions of home-bound Americans. Information technology businesses have quickly created or refined systems for distance learning, teleworking, telemedicine, news dissemination, and e-commerce. Yet, despite these successes, there are new demands to regulate companies such as Amazon, Zoom, and Facebook,” write PURC Director and Gunter Professor [...]
In Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s (D-MN) proposed “Anticompetitive Exclusionary Conduct Prevention Act of 2020,” the score is: consumers 2, and antitrust litigators 20. The litigators win. According to the bill’s general statement, it seeks to “deter anticompetitive exclusionary conduct that harms competition and consumers.” Is the bill about bad companies harming consumers? Read Dr. Mark Jamison's [...]
What is happening to telecom companies during the COVID-19 crisis? What are their financial challenges and how can the companies address these challenges? Three prominent telecom executives discussed these topics as part of our Next Practices Live: ICT Working Group series. Helma Etnel is the CFO and member of the Board of Directors of St. [...]
How can utilities survive the financial crisis that the COVID-19 crisis has created? That is the most frequently asked question during our Next Practices Live discussions. And the answers have varied. Jose Rene Gregory D. Almendras, President and Chief Executive Officer of Manila Water, talked about choosing which bills to pay so that critical suppliers [...]
Many countries are struggling to coordinate supply chains during the pandemic. In water, this means coordinating water resource agencies, government policy makers and regulators, and water utilities. Because we have not been in this situation before, no one has best practices. But what are people trying? What are their experiences? These questions were the subject [...]