Tuesday, September 21, 2010

The Pennsylvania Broadband Summit

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This week's Pennsylvania Broadband Summit brought together experts with many different interests and perspectives.  See Pa. BB Summit Si...
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Which is the Primary Driver of Telecom Investment: Strategic Opportunities or Deregulation?

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Incumbent carriers have spent millions on a campaign aiming to convince legislators and regulators that regulation all but eliminates incent...
Wednesday, September 8, 2010

How Granular Do FCC Orders Have to Be?

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When the FCC went about the task of executing its statutory mandate to promote unbundled access to incumbent carrier facilities and services...
Friday, September 3, 2010

Broadband Penetration in the U.S.: Saturated, Recession-Affected, or Pricing Out Many?

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In addition to providing a better sense of what specific broadband service options consumers have in more narrowly drawn geographic areas, t...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Network Neutrality Debate Down to Two Issues?

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A few days after Google and Verizon announced their qualified open Internet proposal, the FCC has opted to issue a Public Notice seeking com...
Friday, August 20, 2010

Improving the FCC’s Data Collection and Disclosure Practices

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I filed comments in the FCC’s inquiry into how it can improve its data collection practices in the Media, Wireless Telecommunications and Wi...
Monday, August 16, 2010

Does Granny Need a Platinum Plan to Get Her Mission Critical Medical Bits Timely Delivered?

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In previous posts and academic writings I have parted with network neutrality advocates who want absolute parity of access. I agree with Wal...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

How Clever is That?—More Thoughts on the Google-Verizon Deal

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As I reflect on the Google-Verizon “Legislative Framework Proposal” I increasingly marvel at its cleverness. First consider the title. As le...
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Monday, August 9, 2010

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in the Google-Verizon Legislative Framework

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Google and Verizon have developed a “Proposal” on Internet access which I am sure they expect to serve as a template, starting point and fra...
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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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