Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Short Netflix, Go Long Verizon?

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            Reduced to its least common denominator, the network neutrality/open Internet debate involves money: who pays and who receives...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

The D.C. Circuit Court Decision on the FCC’s Open Access Order

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            The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the FCC’s reading of Section 706 in the Communications Act, but also determined ...
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Thoughts on AT&T's "Toll Free" Data Delivery Service

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            AT&T wireless has announced a campaign offering content providers the opportunity to pay for access to end users so that...
Friday, December 27, 2013

Comcast Logic: A New Broadcast TV Fee

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       Comcast’s most recent rate increase adds a new line item to the bill: a Broadcast TV Fee.   In the company’s typical doublespeak, th...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Rent Seeking Across Party Lines

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            Over many years, telecommunications and Internet policymaking have become politicized often with clear cut Democratic and Repub...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Tracking New Models and Conflicts in Web Interconnection and Delivery

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            You might have an interest in my work to understand the diversification of web interconnection and content delivery models, la...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013

Mission Critical Bits and Pay to Play Net Bias

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              The proliferation of video content options via the Internet raises questions about what ISPs can and should do to offer “bet...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

News Flash: Airlines Discover Wireless Profit Center; Forget About Harm to Cockpit Communications

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After years of claims that in-cabin wireless use would risk calamity, the airlines now want the public to believe any wireless access regul...
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Some Brief Comments on Terminating the PSTN

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NPR's All Things Considered covered the PSTN termination story including some words from me: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Netflix and the Future of NGN Interconnection

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            Recent press accounts report that Netflix and cable television companies have collaborated on carriage agreements.   What resul...
Monday, October 14, 2013

Self-serving Self-regulation

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            In most transactions, my instincts favor market-driven outcomes.   Typically fair outcomes result when stakeholders act on co...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

The Dubious Rule of Three

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            Some economists have asserted that markets can remain competitive even when mergers and consolidation reduces the number of ma...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Insights on How Many Economists Operate

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In the last few months I’ve participated in two debates with economists and have been dressed down by one of the rock stars in the academ...
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A Senior Economist Calls My Comments “Stupid”

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            I’m just back from a conference in Perth Australia where a major economics professor from a northeastern university headline...
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...