Friday, May 16, 2014

Can the FCC Turn a Network Neutrality Triple Play?

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        Despite the remarkably large amount of coverage and analysis of the network neutrality debate, not everyone appreciates the wants,...
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Thursday, May 15, 2014

Reclassifying Internet Access as a Title II Regulated Telecommunications Service

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           Today’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Internet access reportedly contains a section inviting comments whether the FCC should...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Deconstructing the “If Only” Rationale for Megamergers in Telecommunications

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            Year after year telecom ventures aspire to get bigger though mergers and acquisitions.   Buying market share serves to increase...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Unintended and Intended Disinformation in Telecom Policy Discussions

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           On too many occasions, I have tried to set the record straight in the face of untruths in telecom policy debates that become al...
Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Revenge of the Cord Nevers

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            More and more young users of the Internet will access the cloud without ever having used a corded device--what older folks kno...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Cable Retransmission/Channel Placement Negotiations and Commercially Reasonable Internet Connections

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            Back at the drawing board, Chairman Wheeler and staff have attempted to find the sweet spot where ISPs can negotiate paid traf...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Better Than Best Efforts Routing of Mission Critical Traffic and the FCC

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           It appears that the FCC will permit exceptions to the standard, plain vanilla best efforts routing standard for Internet traffic...
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Aereo Lessons

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            The Aereo technology and litigation offer several insights on how we will access video entertainment going forward and who has ...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Netflix Has Buyer’s Remorse Over Its Paid Peering Deal with Comcast

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         Soon after capitulating to Comcast’s surcharge demand for improved treatment of its traffic, Netflix got better downstream delive...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Scale and the Comcast-TWC Acquisition

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           Former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt hosts The Digital Show on Business Radio 24/7-- Business Talk from Wharton, channel 111 on Sirius...
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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...