Friday, April 26, 2013

Competition as the Last Resort: A BYOD Discount

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           T-Mobile has further deviated from lock step wireless pricing with discounts for subscribers that bring their own devices, or ...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Wireless Market Concentration Leads to Lower Prices?

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          A recent publication in the Federal Communications Law Journal offers the counterintuitive premise that under conditions where ...
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The FCC’s Role in the Two Plus Two Wireless Market

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           The U.S. national wireless market cleaves between AT&T/Verizon, with a combined 70% market share, and Sprint/T-Mobile, bare...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

What Charlie Ergen’s Rational Exuberance Means for Consumers

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             In the latest of an unbroken chain of disinformation from the Wall Street Journal , columnist Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. today imp...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Rebooting with a Shout Out to Comcast

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            Having taking time away from Telefrieden I have seen how blogs often have much to offer than the short web links available fro...
Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Research Questions About Terminating the PSTN

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      Incumbent carrier initiatives to eliminate the PSTN and their carrier of last resort responsibilities may constitute on of the key ev...
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Monday, December 3, 2012

Adventures in Cloud Computing (Part One)

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What are the odds that the following 3 travel misadventures would occur on the same day? 1)     The National Car rental web site again te...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Terminating the PSTN

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            A month or so ago Telecommunications Policy published my article entitled The Mixed Blessing of a Deregulatory Endpoint for the...
Monday, October 8, 2012

Summary of the FCC's Elimination of the Bar on Exclusive Program Access Contracts

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           In a unanimous decision, the FCC has decided not to extend its program access rules beyond the scheduled October 5, 2012 sunse...
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Thursday, August 23, 2012

How the FCC’s 8th Broadband Report Became a Referendum on the Marketplace

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           Only in this hyper-partisan environment can an FCC report become a stalking horse for libertarianism and antipathy to limited go...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Testing the Negraponte Flip

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           Several years ago MIT Professor Nicholas Negraponte suggested that many current wireless services could be more efficiently pro...
Monday, July 30, 2012

Where Are the AccuWeather Satellites?

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            In my home town of State College, Pennsylvania a major private weather venture operates.   The company, AccuWeather,   takes r...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

New Publication--The Mixed Blessing of a Deregulatory Endpoint for the Public Switched Telephone Network

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        Telecommunications Policy soon will publish my paper entitled The Mixed Blessing of a Deregulatory Endpoint for the Public Switched...
Monday, July 9, 2012

The Wireless Duopoly?

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   The July 9, 2012 edition of the Wall Street Journal (Winners' Circle R6) identifies some of the most successful money managers for...
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...