Thursday, December 8, 2011

Wireless Carriers’ Ambivalence Toward Wi-Fi

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            Perhaps you share my frustration when wireless carriers and their sponsored researchers tell us how benevolent they are: tireles...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

How Can U.S. Wireless Carriers Have the World’s Highest ARPUs and Some of the Lowest Rates?

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          U.S. wireless carriers, their trade associations and sponsored researchers do not want widespread understanding that the U.S. ma...
Sunday, November 27, 2011

A Wireless Duopoly?

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Recently Cox Communications announced its departure from the wireless telecommunications.   Similarly some speculate whether T-Mobile can su...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

Businessweek Can't Distinguish Bits From Bytes

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The Nov. 21-27, 2011 edition of Bloomberg Businessweek incorrectly inserts the word bytes for bits in not one, but two articles (on Indian ...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Holiday Reading Part Two

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Here's a work in progress that considers the middle ground in the network neutrality debate: Do Conduit Neutrality Mandates Promote or H...

Holiday Reading Part One

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In the event you tire of television and run out of written material have I got something for you.  Here's a short piece on IPTV entitled...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Being a Busy Academic

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            Sorry for the lack of blog entries.   So much to do, despite the general impression that academics lead a cushy life. In the las...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

A Fair Estimate of Network Neutrality Costs and Benefits

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           Opponents of network Neutrality allege that imposing such regulation will result in lost jobs and value.   An example of losses i...
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Monday, September 12, 2011

Are Resellers Competitive Saviors, or Lower Than Pond Scum?

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            The conventional wisdom of most facilities-based carriers is that resellers wrongly extract revenues, particularly if governmen...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Academic Entrepreneurism and Rent Seeking

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            While perhaps few in number, professors like me execute on their capitalist beliefs.   I am glad to augment my sparse teaching ...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Buffets and Texting

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            With AT&T’s elimination of moderate texting options, e.g., 1000 a month for $10, one either pays an extortionate 20 cents a...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Synchronized Rate Increases in DVD Rentals and Wireless Service

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            On the heels of Netflix’s rate increase for hard copy DVD access, Redbox has responded with an increase of 15-20% in selected ma...
Monday, August 1, 2011

George Will Vilifies Liberals for Liking a Telephone Monopoly

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           Over the years George Will, writers at the New Yorker and the Economist and John Le Carre have motivated me to increase my voca...
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Friday, July 22, 2011

The Academics’ Blessing and Curse

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            One of the true joys available to academics is having the time to stay current on the literature.   Particularly during the summ...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Wireless Cost Per Minute and Consumer Behavior

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           It has become a largely unquestioned “fact” that U.S. wireless consumers enjoy remarkably low per minute costs rivaling what the ...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Number Counting as a Measurement of Wireless Competition

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           Advocates for deregulation often use a simple measure as the primary basis for claiming a particular marketplace operates competi...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Interconnection Incentives—The Commercial Aviation Example

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            One would think airlines affiliated in one of the three major alliances would have a keen interest in interconnecting their rese...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

The Busy Hour Peak and All Other Times

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          Regulators often confront stakeholders keen on changing the rules of economics to secure a competitive advantage.   Currently in C...
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Netflix Tests Subscribers Price Elasticity and Loyalty

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            Before the proliferation of video content, consumers tolerated “least objectionable programming” as the major broadcast networks...
Monday, July 11, 2011

Fair International Comparisons of Broadband Penetration

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As one who has criticized the FCC for shoddy, results-driven decision making and data collection, I think the Commission deserves credit whe...
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Sunday, July 3, 2011

$1000 vs. $6.84 Million

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     The California Public Utilities Commission has scheduled a series of workshops to explore the consequences of AT&T Wireless’ acquis...
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...