Thursday, March 10, 2016

One Minute on How Washington and the Law Screw the Powerless

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            Start the clock.             After neglecting the issue for years, the FCC Democrats seek to reduce rip off in-mate callin...
Saturday, February 20, 2016

So Set Top Box Competition Victimizes Incumbents, Harms Minorities, Enriches Google and Increases the Number of Set Top Boxes Consumers Have to Use??????

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            Opponents to cable/satellite set top box competition have come up with creative and outlandish rationales for maintaining the s...
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Thursday, February 18, 2016

Set Top Box Competition: What’s Not to Like?

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            Only in this pay to play, partisan world could two out of three FCC Commissioners rise in opposition to an overdue initiative t...
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Monday, February 15, 2016

Latest Publications: Conflict in the Network of Networks: How Internet Service Providers Have Shifted From Partners to Adversaries

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The Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal (Volume 38, No. 1 pp. 63-90) has just published an article of mine that examines ...
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Monday, January 25, 2016

Latest Law Review Publication

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The Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal recently published an article of mine entitled: Network Neutra...

Comcast Plays By Its Own Rules

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Few companies can get away with charging consumers for service yet delivered.  Comcast does. Few companies can impose late payment fees f...
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...