Friday, January 30, 2015

Did Netflix Want Service Quality to Degrade?

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            Through mostly unofficial channels, Comcast has alleged that Netflix wanted transmission bitrates to decline ostensibly to ac...
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Raising Consumer Rates with Sneaky Unbundling

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           With talk about how a la carte pricing of video can reduce consumer costs, I offer a rebuttal.   First video consumers should u...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

AT&T and Comcast Violate the First Rule of Regulation During a Pending Acquisition

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              One would think AT&T and Comcast would be on their best behavior while the FCC considers the merits of multi-billion dol...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

7+ Examples Where Consumers Don’t Call the Shots

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            There are plenty of examples where the marketplace’s invisible hand does not seem to favor consumers.   As much as I want to b...
Monday, December 8, 2014

Telecom Policy Lessons From Recent Aviation Mergers

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         During this sabbatical year, I have had more opportunities for air travel. While I still marvel at the opportunity to be somewhere...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Ted Cruz’s Bumper Sticker Reference to Network Neutrality as Obamacare for the Internet

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            It’s quite understandable for a politician to summarize complex issues and to distill them into pithy bumper sticker slogans. ...
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Saturday, November 8, 2014

Lessons in Telecom Portion Control

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            Greetings from Leuven, Belgium where I am spending two weeks of my sabbatical at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and IC...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Terminating ISP Monopolies and the Similar Harm to Edge Providers and End Users

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            It appears that FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler wants an Open Internet order that differentiates access into 2 categories: 1) edge pr...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Out of Pocket Costs for Over The Top Applications Like Standalone HBO

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            When one accesses HBO via cable television and other multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs”), the subscription p...
Thursday, October 16, 2014

Presentation on Sports Telecommunications Issues

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      In the last few days there have been several significant developments in the IPTV and sports/entertainment marketplace.   The FCC may...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

HBO and Extreme Disintermediation

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      HBO announced today its intention to offer access to its content via the Internet without proof of a cable or satellite television su...
Monday, August 25, 2014

2.5 Blunders in an Otherwise Flawless Comcast Charm Offensive

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        Comcast has executed a near perfect strategy to convince the Justice Department, FCC and public that the merger with Time Warner ha...
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Thursday, June 26, 2014

Impact of the Aereo Supreme Court Decision on Broadcasters, Cloud Content Storage

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                 Broadcast stocks rose as much as double digits on the day the Supreme Court released its Aereo decision.   The decision...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Summary of the Supreme Court Aereo Decision

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            The Supreme Court has ruled that the Aereo operates much like a cable television service whose retransmission of copyrighted...
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Friday, June 6, 2014

Leo Google

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           Of late it appears that the FCC must be running a sale on merger authorizations given the glut of questionable attempts.   With ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

The Costs and Benefits of Bundled Information, Communications and Entertainment (“ICE”) Services

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            Companies such as Comcast and AT&T use the benefits of bundling as one of the rationales supporting their proposed megamerg...