Sunday, May 29, 2016

It's Still the Cable Company, Part 711

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A video on demand service glitch provided me an opportunity to see whether my cable television provider Comcast has made any progress on it...
Thursday, May 12, 2016

Conservatives Playing the Victim Card

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            The last few weeks has had a remarkable glut of instances where conservatives bemoan their victimhood in the Internet ecosyste...
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Broadband Carrier Quandary: Exploit Bandwidth Scarcity, or Reduce It?

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            Comcast enhanced the value position of its broadband subscriptions by increasing the monthly data allowance to 1 Terrabyte (10...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Anatomy of Defective Legislation: The No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act, H.R. 2666

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             The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would prohibit the FCC from regulating Internet Service Provider rat...
Monday, April 25, 2016

Set Top Box Death Watch—Are You Kidding?

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            A new rationale has appeared on the media landscape explaining that the FCC needn’t bother trying to promote set top box comp...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics and Mistruths in the Set Top Box Debate

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            As expected, incumbent cable companies and their select group of new allies, such as Roku, (see http://www.wsj.com/articles/ho...
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...