Thursday, March 6, 2014

Does Sec. 706 Authority Ride Solely on the FCC Continuing to Find Indequate Broadband Competition?

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            In the Verizon v. FCC, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals briefly addressed the issue of the Commission's assessment of bro...
Monday, March 3, 2014

Paid Peering a Contradiction in Terms?

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            On a listserv in which I participate, another participant suggested that there is no paid peering.   I agree that paid peer...
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Monday, February 24, 2014

Netflix “Most Favored Nation,” Paid Peering Agreement With Comcast: The Good, Bad and Ugly

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            Notwithstanding Comcast’s open Internet access commitment made to close the NBC-Universal acquisition, the company has executed...
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Friday, February 21, 2014

Consumer Impacts of a Net Biased Ecosystem

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            Consumers ought to understand what opportunities and threats arise from an even more non-neutral Internet.   Expect existing t...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

FCC Chairman Wheeler’s Open Internet Strategy Post Verizon v. FCC

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            FCC Chairman Wheeler has released a statement outlining his thoughts on how the FCC lawfully can press on for open and neutral...

Post Network Neutrality Feud Number 1: The Netflix (Traffic) Jam

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            As you know, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has invalidated network neutrality requirements that impose common carrier requi...
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Friday, February 14, 2014

A Free Pass for Comcast to Acquire Time Warner, Because They Don't Compete With Each Other?

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            Two rationales supporting the Comcast acquisition of Time Warner don’t make sense to me.   First Comcast touts the existence...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Comcast-TWC: Why Compete and Innovate When You Can Buy Market Share?

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            Expect a charm offensive as Comcast and scores of sponsored researchers explain how acquiring Time Warner Cable will promote c...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

The Network Neutrality Debate in “Extra Innings”

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     Since release of the D.C. Circuit Court decision on the FCC’s Open Internet Order, I have read and reread the decision along with man...
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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