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Allen Gibby

Allen Gibby is director, legal counsel, product at Asurion in Nashville, Tennessee. He was a senior fellow of law and economics at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE). Previously, he was a regulatory and policy advisor at Telecommunications Management Group Inc., where he advised regulators, governments and international organizations on telecommunications regulatory best practices and how laws and rules can be tailored to achieve specific public policy goals. .

Allen received his bachelor’s in economics from Brigham Young University and his JD from George Mason University School of Law. He is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia.

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The destiny of telecom regulation is antitrust

Geoffrey A. Manne & Allen Gibby Dec 13, 2017

This week the FCC will vote on Chairman Ajit Pai’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order. Once implemented, the Order will rescind the 2015 Open Internet Order and return antitrust and consumer protection enforcement to primacy in Internet access regulation in the U.S. In anticipation of that, earlier this week the FCC and FTC entered into a ... The destiny of telecom regulation is antitrust

AntitrustBroadbandConsumer Protection

Conglomerate effects and the incentive to deal reasonably with other providers of complementary products

Allen Gibby Mar 30, 2017

Modern agriculture companies like Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta, develop cutting-edge seeds containing genetic traits that make them resistant to insecticides and herbicides. They also  develop crop protection chemicals to use throughout the life of the crop to further safeguard from pests, weeds and grasses, and disease. No single company has a monopoly on all the ... Conglomerate effects and the incentive to deal reasonably with other providers of complementary products

Agriculture & BiotechAntitrustInnovation & Entrepreneurship