Friday, February 10, 2012

Comcast Anti-consumer Strategies

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      In preparing updates to comprehensive treatise on cable television and broadband (see http://www.lawcatalog.com/product_detail.cfm?p...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

The Law and Policy of Telecommunications and Plumbing

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      I used to revel in the interdisciplinarity of my chosen research, teaching and outreach agenda.   Throughout my career I thought it a ...
Monday, February 6, 2012

New pub: Assessing the need for More Incentives to Stimulate Next Generation Investment

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    I loath the conversion of nouns into verbs, such as party and incentivize.  Perhaps this  picadillo prompted my latest publication in Vo...
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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Lessons From the Deregulation and Re-regulation of Broadcast Volume

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            In 2010 Congress enacted and the President signed into law the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act whose requireme...
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Sunday, January 1, 2012

It's Still the Phone Company (cont.)

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            During the holiday lag, what better time for Verizon Wireless to sneak in a multi-million dollar revenue enhancement, called a c...
Friday, December 23, 2011

Swinging for the Fence or Hitting Singles?—How AT&T and Verizon Further Consolidated the Wireless Marketplace While Most Weren’t Looking

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       Before anyone claims victory for the consumer in AT&T’s abandonment of its “swinging for the fence” gambit to buy T-Mobile’s ma...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Too Big to Fail Wireless Carriers

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               Few would dispute that spectrum has played a key role in making it possible for AT&T and Verizon to acquire scale econom...
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Sunday, December 18, 2011

It’s Still THE Phone Company—Verizon Cuts Off Essential Long Distance Access to My 85 Year Old Mother!!!

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            In the no good deed goes unpunished, consider this classic phone company hassle.                         I’m currently in Norfol...
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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