Friday, July 6, 2012

What’s Wrong With Some Types of Sponsored Research?

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                      In various blog entries and publications I have expressed or implied my disapproval of certain kinds of sponsored r...
Thursday, July 5, 2012

Questions Sponsored Wireless Competition Researchers Don’t Ask

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          The Federal Communications Law Journal recently published a comprehensive assessment of the U.S. wireless marketplace with an ey...
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Yale JOLT Article on Internet Access Regulation

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     The Yale Journal on Law and Technology has recently published my article entitled Rationales for and Against Regulatory Involvement in...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Galley Proof Available for New Law Review Article

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                The Brooklyn Law Review soon will publish From Bad to Worst: Assessing the Long Term Consequences of Four Controversial FC...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Billing Line Items in Telecom and Other Industries

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          In a previous blog entry, I questioned why wireless carriers allow sharing of voice minutes with no additional charge for multi...
Friday, June 15, 2012

About That Second, Third and Fourth Wireless “Attachment”

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            There is some good news about the decision by Verizon Wireless to offer shared monthly data plans.   But there could be a lot ...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

The New Economics of Metering

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            The old school view for metering emphasized efficiency and resource management.   Without a meter tied to variable payment, subs...

Does the ITU Want to Regulate the Internet?

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             Remarkably the International Telecommunication Union (“ITU”) has flown under the radar scope of critics.   This specialized U...
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

“Toll Free” Broadband Service: Double Billing Ripoff, or a Better Than Best Efforts Premium Option?

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            Representatives of both AT&T and Verizon have stated that their companies will soon offer “toll free” broadband services. ...
Monday, May 7, 2012

A Shift in the Balance of Power Between Wireless Carriers and Subscribers

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            Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that wireless carriers have begun to reduce the subsidies they offer wireless subscribers. ...
Friday, May 4, 2012

Whining All the Way to the Bank

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             AT&T Chairman and Chief Executive Randall Stephenson complained yesterday that the FCC’s failure to approve AT&T’s acq...
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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