Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Publication of Winning the Silicon Sweepstakes

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I am pleased to report that the Yale University Press has published my latest book entitled Winning the Silicon Sweepstakes: Can the United ...
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Summary of Court Decision Reversing the FCC Sanctions of Comcast

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The FCC’s attempt to sanction Comcast for interfering with subscribers’ peer-to-peer traffic absent legitimate network management requiremen...
Friday, April 2, 2010

Trust the Cloud?

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By choice and necessity we increasingly use cloud computing to process and store information about us—from pictures to credit card numbers. ...
Friday, March 26, 2010

The National Broadband Plan--A Work in Progress

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The National Broadband Plan represents a thoughtful, albeit belated, recognition that the U.S. federal government can stimulate both the bro...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

16 Page Summary of the National Broadband Plan and Mission Statement

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Having completed the first of many readings of the FCC's National Broadband Plan, I have prepared a relatively short summary of the docu...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Podcast on a Variety of Network Neutrality Issues

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You might have an interest in a thoughtful and wide ranging discussion on the legal, regulatory and policy issues raised by network neutrali...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010

More Available Wireless Spectrum and Higher Market Entry Barriers

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The tremendous demand for, and profitability of mobile telephony supports legislative and regulatory efforts to refarm spectrum with an eye ...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Does Judicial Deference Cleve Along a Deregulation/Expanded Regulation Axis?

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By all accounts it appeals that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals expressed great skepticism with the FCC’s claimed ancillary jurisdiction t...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Measuring Competitiveness in Wireless and Broadband

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The FCC, plenty of sponsored researchers, and countless industry players spread the gospel “truth” that the wireless and broadband markets a...
Monday, February 22, 2010

Something on the Op-Ed Page of the WSJ With Which I Agree

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At long last an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal makes a statement I endorse: “In the Internet age, transparency is the foundation of ...
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Friday, February 19, 2010

Wireless VoIP: Loss Leader or Upselling Strategy?

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Verizon Wireless’ decision to allow their subscribers to access Skype (see http://about.skype.com/press/2010/02/verizon.html ) raises a ques...
Monday, February 15, 2010

InfoDev (World Bank) Publication on Broadband Development

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You might have an interest in the World Bank (InfoDev) study entitled: Building broadband: Strategies and policies for the developing world ...
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Friday, February 12, 2010

Google’s Broadband Projects

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Chances are few U.S. readers have ever heard of something called a “test and demonstration project.” We don’t have a lot of public private p...
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Friday, January 29, 2010

The Greatest Free-riders of Our Time

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Former Southwestern Bell CEO, now General Motors CEO Ed Whitacre famous accused Google of free-riding his network, despite the obvious truth...
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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Top Ten Insights from the 33rd Annual Conference of the Pacific Telecommunications Council

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I have just returned from my annual trek to Honolulu and the PTC Conference; see http://www.ptc.org/ptc10/index.php . Living in a place wit...
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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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