Friday, July 12, 2013

Jane Heller Frieden Eulogy July 11, 2013

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   My mother recently died of complications from Alzheimer's disease.  She played a huge role in helping to shape who I am.  I would li...
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Friday, May 10, 2013

Content Provider Wireless Subsidies

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            Wireless subscribers face the cross-currents of access to an ever increasing inventory of full motion video content at the sam...

Maximizing the Benefits of Future Spectrum Auctions

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            Sponsored researchers already have entered the conversation about spectrum policy with a new objective of thwarting any effort...
Saturday, May 4, 2013

What the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board and Comcast Have in Common

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             Pennsylvania ties with Utah for having the most restrictive access to wine and spirits.   Predictably the Pa. State Stores of...
Wednesday, May 1, 2013

The Lack of Competition in Cable Television Set Top Boxes

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            Recently Comcast migrated from offering 2 free digital to analog converters to offering a rental at $1.99 per month.   It got m...
Monday, April 29, 2013

Telephone Pedestals and the Second Amendment

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            Once upon a time when telephone companies provided service via wires these companies secured free rights of way to install equ...
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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...