Friday, August 5, 2016

Underappreciated Reasons Why Cable Operators Don’t Want Set Top Box Competition

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            Behind all the bluster, misinformation and distortion in the spin campaign of cable operators lies three under-recognized mo...
Saturday, July 23, 2016

Make Versus Buy in Telecommunications—Verizon/Yahoo

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        In a matter of days, Verizon will likely add to its inventory of content by acquiring much of Yahoo.   This deal and the earlier ac...
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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Preliminary Summary of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Network Neutrality Decision

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By a 2-1 vote, reflecting vastly different legal philosophies and regulator expectations, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected all ch...
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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