Friday, July 6, 2007

How Many Broadband Providers Does Your Zipcode Have?

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For grins--or groans--I researched the FCC's broadband statistics to find out how many broadband providers my 16870 zip code has. Nine! ...
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Confiscation of ILEC Property?

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The Telecommunications Act of 1996 ordered incumbent local exchange carriers to unbundle their networks as one of their common carrier inter...
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Friday, June 29, 2007

FCC Makes the Right Call

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The FCC today issued a Declaratory Ruling stating that "that no carriers, including interexchange carriers, may block, choke, reduce or...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Network Neutrality and Packet Sniffing

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I have just completed the draft of a paper on the impact of deep packet inspection on the Network Neutrality debate and digital rights manag...
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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Spam Filter Drives Wedge in Marriage

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All of a sudden I lost email communications with my wife, another Penn State employee. I could send and receive emails with the rest of the ...
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Monday, June 11, 2007

Separating Cellular Service From Handsets

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You may know that Skype has proposed the unbundling of cellular service from the sale of handsets; see http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Capitol Hill Briefing on Universal Service

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Several of my Penn State colleagues and I briefed Senate and House staffers on universal service reform. Some of our papers are available a...
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Thursday, May 17, 2007

The State of Telecom Policy Discourse in Washington

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This week I accepted an invitation of Educause to appear on a panel discussing network neutrality. See http://www.educause.edu/about . As ...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Does Video Have a Long Tail?

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During one of the plenary sessions at the National Cable and Telecommunications Association annual conference a content supplier executive c...
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Friday, May 11, 2007

Insights From the National Cable Show

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I had the opportunity to attend the National Cable and Telecommunications annual convention in Las Vegas. This show offers me an opportunity...
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Saturday, May 5, 2007

Monthly $2 Charge for Not Making Calls and How to Avoid It

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My monthly Verizon landline bill arrived with a new $2.00 (plus 11% Universal Service Fund contribution) for not making any long distance ca...
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Monday, April 30, 2007

Lies, Damn Lies and Broadband Statistics

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For the better part of a decade, the United States lagged in broadband development largely because stakeholders invested in long haul capaci...
Wednesday, April 25, 2007

The Dark Side of Incentive Creation

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Much of the debate about broadband and next generation network development focuses on the alleged need for government to create incentives f...
Monday, April 23, 2007

Sponsored But Undisclosed "Research"

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You might say fuzzy science made me blog. I decided to create this blog in part because of proliferating undisclosed, sponsored research. Fa...
Thursday, April 19, 2007

Government Rent Seeking Versus Commercial Profit Seeking

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Managers of commercial ventures invariably have to decide the proper balance of profit seeking investments and efforts versus seeking benefi...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Bandwidth and Throughput Math

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Part of my current research agenda involves a comparative assessment of U.S. broadband market penetration and next generation network deploy...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

The Dark Side of Intelsat's Privatization

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Once upon a time Intelsat operated as the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, a global cooperative, with small debt and...
Monday, April 16, 2007

Review of Latest Sidak Piece on Network Neutrality

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Even as the piece probably will induce significant mashing of teeth among network neutrality advocates, I strongly recommend a recent articl...
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Revisionism

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William B. Petersen, President of Verizon Pennsylvania visited the College of Communications at Penn State where I teach. Mr. Petersen's...
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Sunday, April 15, 2007

World Economic Forum Network Readiness Index--U.S. Drops From 1st to 7th

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For the better part of a decade local exchange carrier management claimed that regulatory uncertainty and unbundling obligations removed inc...
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