Friday, June 6, 2008

Winners and Losers in Yet Another Mega-Billion Dollar Acquisition—Verizon/Alltel

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I’m going out on a very short and sturdy limb here to predict that the FCC will approve Verizon’s acquisition of Alltel with few conditions ...
Friday, May 30, 2008

The Front and Back End of a Two Year Wireless Subscription

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In the United States just about everyone trades off typical consumer rights and handset freedoms in exchange for “ownership” of a subsidized...
Friday, May 2, 2008

Stealth Deregulation

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Wireless carriers in the United States and elsewhere appear to have come up with a clever new strategy to achieve deregulation: assume that ...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Wireless Carterfone is Not Overbearing Regulation

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I don't understand why applying Carterfone to wireless is controversial and successfully framed by opponents as an extension of regulati...
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Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Who Makes the Any Apps Any Handset Call?

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The Wall Street Journal today reported that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin wants to reject a Petition for Declaratory Ruling filed by Skype that ...
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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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