Thursday, March 5, 2015

Comcast Streaming of NBC Broadcast Content

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            NBC soon will join the ranks of content providers offering a streaming option to cord cutters and mobile consumers.   See, e....
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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Federalism Versus Balkanization and Muni Wi-Fi

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         While most attention today focused on the FCC’s Open Internet, I was intrigued with the discussion—make that righteous indignation...

A Very Preliminary and Tentative Summary of the FCC’s Open Internet Order

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            I have prepared a tentative summary of the FCC’s Open Internet Order based on pre-release documents as well as what transpire...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

A Foolproof Toolkit for Hiding Sponsored Research

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      Today’s New York Times has a front page story reporting on how a reliably anti-climate change researcher failed to disclose substan...
Monday, February 9, 2015

The Title II Reclassification Distraction

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            By now even most of my undergraduate students at Penn State have heard about the FCC’s likely reclassification of broadband a...
Friday, February 6, 2015

Who's Who in Telecommunications Preemption

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            In the not too distant future the FCC will preempt state laws that prevent municipalities from offering Wi-Fi services.   Abo...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015

What’s Certain About the Regulatory Uncertainty Debate

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            Incumbent carriers, such as AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, have made countless “curtains for the Free World” assertions in t...
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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...