Tuesday, March 25, 2008

What Consultants Generally Do

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You may have heard the rather lame joke about the definition of a consultant: someone who borrows your watch and tells you the time. Consul...
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Friday, March 21, 2008

Game, Set and Match: How AT&T and Verizon Will Largely Lock Down the Third Screen

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The results of the 700 MHz spectrum auction solidify the market dominance of AT&T and Verizon by locking up the best additional spectrum...
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Slightly Less Deceptive FCC Broadband Statistics Forthcoming

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Recognizing the need for better calibrated broadband statistics, which more closely tracks actual choices available to consumers, the FCC ha...
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Usage-Based Pricing and a Potential Unanticipated Consequence

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Some Internet Service Providers have begun to experiment with usage-based pricing in lieu of a one-size fits all pricing model. This makes ...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Information Service Telecommunications Service Mutual Exclusivity

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The FCC surely has a hard time dealing with convergence and in particular a firm that offers both telecommunications services and informatio...
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Monday, February 25, 2008

Network Neutrality Unneeded in a Competitive Broadband Marketplace

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In the Feb 25th edition of the Wall Street Journal former hedge fund manager Andy Kessler strongly suggests that competition would solve any...
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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Bulls, Bears and Greed

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As a regular telecommunications conference attendee I marvel at the ability of the hospitality industry to calibrate prices right to the bri...
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Monday, February 11, 2008

When the Web Is Not Faster, Better, Smarter …

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It never fails to amaze me that print media subscriptions take three to five weeks to get “processed.” The Internet apparently provides no ...
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Friday, February 1, 2008

The Internet’s Weakest Link—Submarine Cableheads

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This week two major transoceanic cables experienced outages that may last several days. See http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Boring into Broadband Penetration Statistics

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In preparation for a conference on network neutrality, I am taking a closer look at broadband penetration statistics in the U.S. and in othe...
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Recent Presentation and Paper on Wireless Carterfone

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Belatedly the network neutrality debate has begun to address the extent to which wireless subscribers can use their handsets to access any c...
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Monday, December 10, 2007

What to Do With Heavy Internet Users?

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Comcast’s heavy handed treatment of its peer-to-peer networking customers made me wonder if these customers deserve to expulsion or a fruit ...
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European Assessment of Network Neutrality

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I had the good fortune to participate in a conference on Network Neutrality from a European perspective organized by WIK-Consult GmbH in Bon...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Who's Behind That Blog?

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An assignment in a Media and Democracy course I teach at Penn State invites students to select a telecommunications advocacy web site for an...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

FCC Chairman Martin A Tireless Consumer Advocate--Who Knew?

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In a counter-intuitive move for a Republican free marketeer, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has sought to impose substantial additional regulatio...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Why Thwart Network Usage When the Meter's On?

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One of the many disconnects in the network neutrality debate---at least the wireless one-lies in the simple fact that carriers make money pr...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007

The Missing Human Link in an Internet Transaction

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Over two years ago I had an automobile to sell. I opted for a combination of the conventional--print newspaper--and the relatively new--the ...
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Friday, November 9, 2007

Response to Two Columns on Comcast’s Traffic Management Tactics

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Two columnists have offered their perspective on the Comcast peer-to-peer traffic management issue. See Larry Seltzer, eWeek.com, Network P...
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

In Praise of Relatively Dumb Pipes

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Comcast's furtive and undisclosed traffic manipulation reminds me of a curious, red herring asserted by some incumbent carriers and the...
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Friday, November 2, 2007

What Can the FCC Do When ISPs Block or Degrade Certain Types of Traffic?

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A group of pro network neutrality advocates have filed a Petition for Declaratory Ruling and Formal Complaint in response to Comcast’s furti...
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Thursday, November 1, 2007

DSL and Cable Modem Lose Over 24% Market Share in One Year??!!

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In the lies, damn lies and statistics department the FCC has made another contribution. The Commisison's most current compilation of bro...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Property Confiscation is in the Eye of the Beholder

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The issue of FCC confiscation of private property has a long and checkered history in academic literature, sponsored research and litigation...
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Friday, October 26, 2007

My Thoughts on Wireless Carterfone and Network Neutrality

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I recently completed a piece that examines the law and policy of applying Carterfone and broader net neutrality obligations to cellphone ser...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Empirical Evidence of Net Bias—Now What? (part two)

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ISPs now acknowledge that they may meddle with subscribers’ traffic streams, but only to “manage” and “shape” traffic. ISPs typically reser...
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Empirical Evidence of Net Bias—Now What?

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A widely distributed and unassailable study by the Associated Press (see http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/10/19/ap4240786.html ) confirms...
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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Expanding Pedestals

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Telephone and cable companies have expanded their service offerings into a triple- or quadruple play of their core service (telephony or vid...
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Consumer Protection for Cable Television But Not the Internet or Cellular Telephony

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The FCC recently released an Order that extends until Oct. 2012 a prohibition on exclusive contracting by vertically integrated programmers ...
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Monday, October 1, 2007

Nomination for the Worst in Sponsored Research

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With so much unsponsored, under-read research in telecommunications policy, I marvel how sponsored research finds its way into hard copy jou...
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Global Best Practices in Telecom Policy

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Papers presented at the 35th annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference http://www.tprc.org/ held last weekend offered more evide...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

I-Phone Restrictions Herald the Benefits on Non-Neutral Networks--Not!!

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George Mason University Law and Economics Professor Thomas Hazlett has written a short piece in the Financial Times heralding the virtue of...
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Thursday, September 13, 2007

The U.S. Justice Department Opposes Net Neutrality

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The Justice Department has filed comments opposing network neutrality with FCC. See http://www.freepress.net/docs/doj225767.pdf . These co...
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Sunday, September 9, 2007

Recommended Reading

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I stongly recommend The radio and the Internet written by law Professor Susan Crawford: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1...
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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Limited Regulatory Relief When ISPs Misbehave

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Consumers and the FCC have limited recourse when an Internet Service Provider acts in a fraudulent, discriminatory or abusive manner. ISPs a...
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Monday, August 20, 2007

The Power of a Slogan or Phrase

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Mike Nelson, a former White House technology policy advisor in the Clinton administration now affiliated with IBM, offered the following adv...
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Sunday, August 19, 2007

Two Recent Powerpoint Presentations on Net Neutrality and DRM

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If your interested in network neutrality my latest thoughts on the subject are available at: http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view...
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Monday, August 6, 2007

Protecting the Wireless Crown Jewel

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The incumbent wireline telephone companies increasingly rely on wireless service revenues to generate growth and upward trajectory in their ...
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Monday, July 30, 2007

Wireless State of Play: When Good Enough is the Enemy of Greatness

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I marvel at the creativeness in the opposition to policy initiatives that I believe would confer ample consumer benefits by imposing lawful ...
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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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