Digital Platform Regulatory Challenges- Is History Repeating Itself?
By Robin Mansell
Data first travelled utilising packet-switching technology in 1969, between four university network nodes in the US – in the same year that the International Institute of Communications (IIC) was founded. In 1971, the US regulator, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), published findings in the form of the Computer Inquiry I.[1] The aim of this investigation was to promote economic growth and innovation in the computing services market.
Digital Platform Regulatory Challenges - Is History Repeating Itself?
- Series:
- IIC 50th Anniversary Book
Robin Mansell
Professor of New Media and the Internet in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE 
