Sunday, August 2, 2009

Some Unsolicited Advice for AT&T re Google Voice

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The FCC has posed a number of provocative questions to AT&T regarding the fact that iPhone subscribers cannot download and use the Googl...
Friday, July 31, 2009

Revealing the Inner Geek: E Layer Skip

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During a tortuous 10 hour family drive the ionosphere sparkled. More specifically a layer of the ionosphere became more agitated and dense ...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

The Google Telephone Company?

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Google has undertaken a beta-test of a telephony platform that includes the opportunity to route incoming calls to multiple devices and tele...
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Monday, July 13, 2009

Response to Questions from Senator Udall

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Following up on the Senate Commerce Committee's hearing on wireless handset policy, Senator Tom Udall posed additional questions. My ans...
Thursday, July 9, 2009

Why Is Your Smart Phone Is So Stupid?

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Brian Caulfield of Forbes magazine wrote a short piece posing the question: Why Is Your Smart Phone Is So Stupid? See http://www.forbes.com...
Tuesday, July 7, 2009

WSJ Editorial on Wireless Handset Exclusivity

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The Wall Street Journal has extended its record for knee jerk corporate boosterism and extreme snarkiness, this time rejecting any need to s...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Response to Questions From Senator Snowe

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Following up on the Senate Commerce Committee's hearing on wireless handset policy, Senator Olympia Snowe posed additional questions. M...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

New Work in Progress

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I have completed a draft of a paper that examines how Internet Service Providers claim First Amendment speaker rights even as they also clai...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Testimony on the Consumer Wireless Experience

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The Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing that examined wireless handset exclusivity, as well as limitations on consumers' access to ...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Another Work in Progress--Lock Down on the Third Screen: How Wireless Carriers Evade Regulation of Their Video Services

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Set out below is the abstract for another work in progress that considers whether wireless carriers should evade regulation of their "t...
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Work in Progress-Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics: Developing a Clearer Assessmentof Market Penetration and Broadband Competition in the United States

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Set out below is the abstract for a current work in progress on the dodgy world of broadband market penetration data collection. The work wi...
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Monday, May 4, 2009

Distance Is Not Dead or Cost Free

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In 1997, Frances Cairncross wrote a book entitled The Death of Distance (Harvard Business School Press) that heralded the Internet’s ability...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Carriers That Can Say No

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Recently several press accounts reported that AT&T will allow iPhone subscribers to access Skype’s Voice Over the Internet Protocol (“Vo...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Skype Jailbreak and the Unholy Alliance of Wireless Handset Makers and Carriers

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News of conditional iPhone Skype access has arrived; see http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/fring-for-the-iphone-all-skype-no-gr...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Unbundling in Canada

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It appears that the incumbent wireline carriers in Canda use the same strategy as incumbent carriers in the U.S., i.e., play the investment ...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Supreme Court Further Limits Antitrust Remedies for Carrier Pricing Complaints

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By a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court has further reduced the opportunity for a carrier competitor of an incumbent to seek an FCC or judi...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Can Common Carrier Regulated Telephone Companies Limit Service Plans to Bundled Subscribers?

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Several press outlets have disclosed that Verizon may offer very low cost telephone service options available only to subscribers who alread...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

The Non-Lesson From Telecom Frauds

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Does anyone remember how Worldcom, Qwest, 360 Communications and other telecommunications carriers overstated revenues by booking capacity s...
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Monday, February 9, 2009

Regulatory Status of Wireless Information Appliances

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News of a slimmed down Amazon Kindle electronic book has triggered this question: what regulatory status applies to devices that use wireles...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Comcast Letter Hints at the Potential Common Carrier Regulation of VoIP Service

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While the FCC has classified cable modem and DSL Internet access an information services, the Commission has not specified whether VoIP simi...
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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Top Ten List of FCC Regulatory Reforms—Part Two

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4) Fairly Report the State of an Industry When Reporting to Congress Federal legislation regularly requires the FCC to p...
Friday, January 16, 2009

Top Ten List of FCC Regulatory Reforms—Part One

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10) Honesty is the best policy. At the risk of anthromorphizing a regulatory agency, at the very least the FCC has not told the complete tru...
Monday, January 12, 2009

Universal Service Reform

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An increasing number of players—including the incoming Administration—have expressed interest in reforming the process by which the federal ...
Friday, January 9, 2009

Analog Videophiles

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Just as some audiophiles swear by the virtues of analog audio, I think we soon will have millions of analog videophiles. Despite all the pre...
Thursday, January 1, 2009

Wireless Economies of Scale at the Price of Diminished Competition

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In 2001 the FCC eliminated a cap on the amount of bandwidth a single wireless carrier could control. With nothing coming close to quantifiab...
Monday, December 29, 2008

Fuzzy Math in Calculating the Cost and Profit in Wireless Text Messaging

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The New York Times recently addressed the issue of wireless texting cost and strongly implied that carriers make a lot of money from this se...
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Deconstructing AT&T’s Claims About the iPhone

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Unlike the other wireless carriers, which primarily use advertisements to claim how well their networks work, AT&T pitches both reliabil...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Do Transparency and Non-Discrimination Requirements Impose De facto Common Carriage Duties?

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Birtelcom has asked whether a Network Neutrality requirement of transparency and nondiscrimination in effect imposes a common carrier respon...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Wall Street Journal 100% Record Sustained—Deliberately Getting it Wrong on Network Neutrality

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Month after month the Wall Street Journal (“WSJ”) pursues what appears to be a deliberate strategy of misinformation on the issue of Network...
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Sunday, December 21, 2008

No Way to Put the Public Back in Public Utilities?

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Several years ago many state legislatures embraced the concept that technological innovations would stimulate robust competition in previous...
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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Apple iPhone Apps Store—Refreshing Openness or Walled Garden?

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Apple Computer has received high praise for the diversity of applications available for the iPhone. The company shows great willingness to a...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Edge Caching and Better Than Best Efforts Routing

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A recent WSJ article has caused a tempest in a teapot over the possibility that standard bearers for network neutrality, such as Google, hav...
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Friday, December 12, 2008

The Downsides in Maximizing Spectrum Auction Proceeds

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My classical economics training suggests that when governments maximize spectrum auctions—or the award of any franchise—the nation “wins” by...
Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Lessons From the Hawaii Telcom Bankruptcy

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Hawaii Telcom, the incumbent local exchange telephone company, has filed for bankruptcy protection. Press accounts attribute this outcome t...
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Friday, November 21, 2008

Demand Elasticity for ICE Services

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The Wall Street Journal today reported that many electricity utilities in the United States have experienced an unexpected decline in demand...
Monday, November 17, 2008

Voodoo Economic Modeling and Telecom Policy

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In my capacity as a university professor, one of the ways I serve “the academy” involves blind peer review of journal manuscripts. I also ha...
Friday, October 3, 2008

Unlicensed White Space Use as an Airwave “Freeze”

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Professors Tom Hazlett and Vernon Smith have an op ed piece in the Oct. 3rd edition of the Wall Street Journal entitled “Don’t Let Google Fr...
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