Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Loving Wi-Fi to Death—Wireless Carriers Want to Commercialize Unlicensed Spectrum?

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            Once upon a time, wireless carriers in the U.S. intentionally disabled handsets they sold/leased to prevent subscribers from us...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Comcast Upselling Cable Modems

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            Despite its commitment to improving its customer service, Comcast keeps writing and robocalling me   with an offer I can refuse...
Monday, August 3, 2015

Nokia Mapping and the In-Car Billboard

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            BMW Audi AG and Daimler will pay about $3.1 billion for Nokia’s mapping assets; see http://www.wsj.com/articles/bmw-daimler-aud...
Monday, July 20, 2015

Best Available Screen Challenges to the Wireless Lovefest

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              With growing momentum, wireline incumbent carriers have achieved general consensus that copper-based technologies should rea...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Verizon's Copper-Free Diet and the Poorly Educated Consumer

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          The frustration, confusion and anger of an elderly friend showed the upcoming public relations debacle awaiting Verizon and other...
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Monday, July 6, 2015

AT&T-DirecTV and the Benefit of Multiple Requests

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            AT&T appears likely to secure all required governmental approvals of its $48.5 billion acquisition of DirecTV.   AT&T h...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

AT&T Wireless Risks Having to Pay $100 Million in Tuition on Contract Law

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          The FCC has issued a Notice of Apparent Liability to AT&T Wireless with a $100 million “forfeiture” for throttling service t...
Thursday, June 4, 2015

TMobile-Dish--Not So Strange Bedfellows

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          Another day another 64 billion dollar market consolidation.   Well at least this one has some entertainment value and I don’t ref...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, the Wall Street Journal and the Secondary Meaning of Incontinent

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          Today the Wall Street Journal reached a new nadir of snark and journalist irresponsibility.   In one op ed, Holman W. Jenkins, J...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

If You Like the Airlines’ Consolidation, You Might Love an Even More Concentrated Broadband and Cable Marketplace

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          With several cable television operations in play, perhaps we should consider what’s behind the urge to consolidate?   Bear in min...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Mistakes, Mistruths and Outright Lies in the Assessment of Broadband Competition

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           Readers of the May 13, 2015 edition of the Wall Street Journal got a triple dose of snark and questionable journalism.   On bac...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Verizon and the Mixed Prospects of Vertical Integration

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          Verizon will invest $4.4 billion to acquire AOL; see http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/13/business/dealbook/verizon-to-buy-aol-for-...
Monday, May 11, 2015

Circuit-Switched Telephony Metadata

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          The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that the acquisition and storage of all wireline and wireless telephone traffi...

Hi-Fi, Wi-Fi and Fi Wordplay

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             Readers of a certain age probably know the full words to the acronyms in this blog edition.   Hi-Fi refers to high fidelity a...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Will Skinny Bundles Reduce Your Video Bill?

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            Consumers have tolerated years of bloated video programming tiers with annual rate increases well in excess of the generate in...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

5 Reasons Why Consumers Hate Comcast

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     Comcast suffers from an unintended, but surely predictable consequence of its corporate strategies.   The company makes itself an easy...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Google Wireless: This Could Get Big . . . Eventually

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               It appears that Google soon will launch a lower cost, metered wireless service.   See http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-se...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Rethinking Efficiency in Size and Vertical Integration

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       My Wharton education in economics has led me to assume that large firm can exploit greater economies of scale and scope.   Similarly...
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Friday, March 20, 2015

New Video Streaming Options and Network Neutrality

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           Over the last few weeks, several video streaming options have arrived.   See, e.g., http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/busi...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

A Concise and Preliminary Summary of the FCC's Published Open Internet Order

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        Soon after learning that the FCC would release it Open Internet Order, I started to read, skim and summarize. Nine or so hours lat...