Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Reintermediation—How Cable Incumbents Close Ranks with New Media

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            The Internet has empowered consumers by eliminating middlemen that no longer add value.   I use the following key words to a...
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Monday, April 16, 2012

Network Neutrality in a Nutshell

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 Congressional Quarterly has prepared a helpful primer on network neutrality (with a few quotes from yours truly).  See http://libr...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Intranets and the Cloud: The Lack of Functional Difference Between Comcast’s Xbox and Regular Broadband Traffic

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             Those clever folks at Comcast want us to believe that there is a functional difference between routing Netflix traffic to an ...

Pricing Power and the Lack of Competition in Broadband and Video

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            Readers of this blog may have inferred that I am sick and tired of bogus claims made by many telecom operators that competition ...
Monday, April 2, 2012

The Antitrust Remedy as a Red Herring

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            With increasing frequency advocates for the most outlandish deregulatory approaches in the telecommunications sector quickly m...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

Cable and Telephone Giants: Embracing, Extending and Extinguishing the Competition

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           You may have heard that the major cable and telecom players have entered into joint venturing agreements that appear to have th...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Cable A la Carte and Economic Efficiency

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             In preparing updates to the loose leaf treatise All About Cable and Broadband , I reviewed the FCC’s latest report on cable ...
Saturday, March 10, 2012

Hot Potato Routing and Real or Imagined Congestion

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            Several years ago when the Internet was beginning to grow, the matter of fair sharing of traffic loads arose.   Because ISPs did...
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Monday, March 5, 2012

Metered Broadband and the Bellhead Way

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       Leave it to the telephone companies to come up with a way to defeat success.   Rather than work to make smartphones the third scree...
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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...