Monday, August 22, 2016

Paying Mooching Carriers—Wi-Fi Spectrum Use by Licensed Operators

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            Some stakeholders support a growing strategy by incumbent carriers to offload ever increasing bandwidth demand onto other netw...
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Saturday, August 13, 2016

Another Study in Inconsistency: North Carolina Politics

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             North Carolina has a lot to offer including world class beaches, technology parks and barbeque.   Sadly it also leads the nati...
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Friday, August 12, 2016

Consistently Inconsistent: How Very Large ICT Ventures Cannot Maintain a Consistent Legal/Regulatory Posture

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            Technological and marketplace convergence makes it increasingly difficult for large, integrated firms, like AT&T, to m...
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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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