Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Did Comcast’s Local Broadcast Retransmission Costs Rise 65% Last Year?

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            Leave to Comcast management to convert a cost of doing business into a profit center.   Cable television operators have to nego...
Monday, December 28, 2015

Do Righteous Indignation and Hyperbole Persuade People?

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             After writing over one hundred painstakingly researched and edited journal articles I wonder whether I’ve made a woeful error....
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One Mystery of the Universe Solved: Why Just About Every Comcast Subscriber Hates the Company

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            Recently Comcast CEO Brian Roberts concluded that subscribers hate his company, because they don’t want to pay for content. htt...
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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

The Regulatory Uncertainty Red Herring

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            I wish I had a dollar every time I see and hear regulatory uncertainty vilified. In telecommunications regulation and policy...
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Network Neutrality

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            During my sabbatical from Penn State last term, I embarked on several network neutrality deep dives.  I have generated the f...
Thursday, December 3, 2015

So Why Would Verizon and Other Carriers Want to Spend Yet More Billions on Content?

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            Perhaps you’ve read the relentless and false recitation of an assertion that the Wall Street Journal , American Enterprise Inst...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

That $200,000 Degree Comes Without a Warranty

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            Even with 25 years of teaching experience, I have to undergo an audition of sorts with my undergraduate students.   Increasingl...
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Thursday, October 29, 2015

The Internet of Infallible Algorithms

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            Capital One, a major credit card issuer, offers customers access to a streamlined credit report.   Upon examining my score, I...
Monday, October 26, 2015

Teaching Millennials

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            Teaching mostly college juniors and seniors provides me with the opportunity to observe cutting edge early adopters of new tec...
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It's Still the Cable Company--Part 179

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            After months of regular and largely uninterrupted cable television service my home Video On Demand access suddenly evaporated. ...
Monday, October 19, 2015

Incumbents’ Incentives and Disincentives to Invest in Existing and Next Generation Networks

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            Recently anti-network neutrality researchers and advocates have made an assertion that does not make sense to me.   First, the...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

The Myth of Broadband Investment "Disincentivization"

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            Some people, who really should know better, have combined one questionable statistic with an absolutely unreasonable inference...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Verizon’s “Free” Mobile Streaming Service and the Many Questions About Sponsored Data

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           When one of the two mega-wireless carriers in the U.S. announces a mobile streaming service, the FCC soon will have to confront...
Wednesday, September 2, 2015

The Impact of Regulation on Broadband Investment

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           Several sponsored researchers have floated the notion that network neutrality and Title II common carrier regulation constitute ...
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...