Wednesday, June 15, 2011

AT&T Aquisition of T-Mobile Will Cure the Common Cold!

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Give AT&T Wireless credit for enlisting widespread support for its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile.   Disparate players including the C...
Sunday, June 12, 2011

Internet in a Suitcase Abroad, But What About Pennsylvania?

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T he New York Times has a front page article on U.S. governmental efforts to support democracy via stealthy data networking in strive to...
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Monday, June 6, 2011

Creative Lawyering

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            Believe it or not you can enhance your lobbying and legal practice before the FCC with the use of creative thinking.   No foolin...

A Right Way, A Wrong Way and the . . .

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Back in my home town of Norfolk, Virginia one quickly learned that the Navy—a dominant presence—had its own rules.   The Navy Way was not ri...
Friday, May 20, 2011

Mercatus Center Panel on Wireless Competition

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The Mercatus Center, based at George Mason University, hosted a panel on the state of wireless competition in the U.S. and how the FCC frame...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

New Publication: A Nuanced Assessment of Network Neutrality

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     The Penn State Law Review, 115 Penn St. L. Rev. 49 (2010), has published my article entitled Assessing the Merits of Network Neutrality...
Friday, April 8, 2011

Compulsory Data Roaming: The FCC Imposes a Duty to Deal

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     The FCC’s recent Second Report and Order on data roaming obligations of facilities-based wireless carriers (see http://hraunfoss.fcc.go...

News Flash!—FCC Identifies Market Failures in Wireless Marketplace

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     The FCC’s recent Second Report and Order on data roaming obligations of facilities-based operators (see  http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Panadora Investigation

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Marketplace Morning offers a few secs. of my thoughts on Pandora mobile apps investigation: http://lb.vg/BX67C . Nice to receive a call at...
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Explaining Wireless Spectrum Woes

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     Yet again The Wall Street Journal, in an editorial and op-ed piece, uses snarkiness and mischaracterizations to refute legitimate conce...
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Monday, March 21, 2011

The Likely AT&T Wireless Playbook for Securing Authority to Acquire T-Mobile

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     There are several tried and true tactics that AT&T Wireless can use to convince the FCC and Department of Justice to approve the c...
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Sunday, March 20, 2011

AT&T-T Mobile One Merger Too Many?

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So AT&T wants to acquire T-Mobile's market share concentrating the wireless marketplace so that 3 carriers control over 90% of the m...
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Friday, March 18, 2011

New Publication--Legislative and Regulatory Strategies for Providing Consumer Safeguards in a Convergent Information and Communications Marketplace

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The Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 33, No. 2, has published my article entitled Legislative and Regulatory Stra...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Lies, Damn Lies and Broadband Statistics

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The FCC and NTIA have launched a broadband map that purports to give quite granular and current data about broadband accessibility.  Don...
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Thursday, January 6, 2011

New, Old and Forgotten Frames in the Network Neutrality Debate

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            One key reason for confusion about Network Neutrality lies in the many different and inconsistent frames used to shape the debat...
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Summary of FCC's Net Neutrality Report and Order

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In a split decision, likely to face congressional and judicial review, the FCC issued rules designed to promote transparent, unblocked and ...