Friday, January 15, 2010

Disintermediation on Steroids?

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Technological and marketplace convergence, leading to an IP-centric infrastructure, has the potential to eliminate the middleman--disinterme...
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Monday, January 11, 2010

Agency Deference or Strict Statutory Construction—Conflicting Case Precedent

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Many observers expect the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate the FCC’s attempt at fashioning federal Internet policy when it reprimande...
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Friday, January 8, 2010

AT&T A Broadband Booster--Who Knew?

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AT&T apparently has embraced broadband so much so that it wants out of the dial up, circuit switched telephone business. On it's fac...
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Having Its Cake and Eating it Too--Shirking Common Carriage While Retaining Rights of Way Access and Other Benefits

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AT&T's new gambit to rid itself of pesky Title II common carrier responsibilities prompts me to ask (and tentatively answer) this qu...
Monday, January 4, 2010

New Book Galley Proof Edit Completed

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My blogging absence has occurred largely because of teaching, consulting and book manuscript work. I am glad to report completion of the ga...
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Friday, October 23, 2009

Summary of FCC's Rulemaking on Net Neutrality and Preserving the Open Internet

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Consistent with President Obama’s campaign promise to support network neutrality, the FCC has issued a broad sweeping Notice of Proposed Rul...
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Thursday, October 15, 2009

New Pub: Lock Down on the Third Screen: How Wireless Carriers Evade Regulation of Their Video Services

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The latest Berkeley Technology Law Journal (Vol. 24, No. 2 819-849 Spring, 2009) has published my work on wireless video regulatory issues. ...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

WSJ’s Misinformation Agenda

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Year after year I read Wall Street Journal editorials and op eds on telecommunications with wonder. How can seemingly intelligent people—wh...
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Monday, October 12, 2009

The Front-end and Back-End Effects of Spectrum Auction Open Access Commitments

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AT&T and others have noted that when a spectrum auction bidder must commit to using the bandwidth for an open and nondiscriminatory netw...
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Thursday, October 1, 2009

The Regulatory Arbitrage Lovefest

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My day job, which includes finishing a book, updating a broadband law treatise, and trying to engage undergraduate students in the challenge...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Does the FCC Have Jurisdiction to Regulate Wireless Handsets?

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As the FCC launches a number of inquiries into the wireless marketplace, some opponents to such scrutiny have raised the argument that the F...
Sunday, August 30, 2009

Making a Mark in Telecom Policy: The 3PI Rule

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With over thirty years experience in trying to influence U.S. federal telecommunications policy making, I can offer insights about the proce...
Friday, August 28, 2009

FCC 30% Cap on Cable Operator Market Penetration Vacated

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The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated the FCC's 30% cap on national market penetration by a single cable operator. Look for Comc...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Law Review Article on U.S. Broadband Statistics

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Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics: Developing a Clearer Assessment of Market Penetration and Broadband Competition in the United States is avai...
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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