Thursday, August 5, 2010

About Those “Mission Critical” Bits

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News that Google and Verizon are negotiating “better than best efforts” Internet routing probably comes across as a betrayal of sorts to net...
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Monday, August 2, 2010

Political and Economic Lessons from a Spent Water Heater

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If you have the privilege of owning a home for more than a few years, you probably have encountered a water heater that has reached “end of ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics at the Federal Communications Commission

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The Federal Communications Commission recently discovered that 14 to 24 million Americans, located in 1,024 out of the nation’s 3,230 counti...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Identifying Areas in the U.S. Lacking Any Broadband Options

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Despite previous proclamations of near ubiquitous broadband access in the United States, using smaller and more numerous counties instead of...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Comcast Violates an Unwritten Law

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When a venture has petitioned the FCC to approve an acquisition, or to provide greater regulatory relief an unwritten law requires the petit...
Monday, July 19, 2010

Content Deregulation and the Second Circuit Court Opinion on Fleeting Expletives

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Acting on a remand from the Supreme Court, which had upheld on procedural grounds the FCC’s increasingly stringent rules limiting broadcast ...
Monday, June 7, 2010

AYCE and the Third Screen

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AT&T recently announced that it plans to abandon All You Can Eat (“AYCE”) unmetered data pricing substituting usage-based plans. One cer...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Handicapping the Viability of the Third Way Model for Internet Access Regulation

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Like many I have grave doubts about the viability of the Third Way regulatory model proposed by FCC chaiman Genachowski and General Counsel ...
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

New Publication: Case Studies in Abandoned Empiricism and the Lack of Peer Review at the Federal Communications Commission

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The Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law at the University of Colorado law school has published my article that provides am...
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Thursday, May 6, 2010

Network Neutrality and the FCC’s Inability to Calibrate Regulation of Convergent Operators

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That FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is struggling to find a way to calibrate network neutrality and Title I ancillary jurisdiction confirms...

Determining Causality in Telecommunications

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With the FCC and most government actors obsessed with incentive creation, it makes sense to determine whether and how a regulatory or deregu...
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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