Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Make Versus Buy in Information, Communications and Entertainment –Comparing the Strategy of AT&T with Facebook, Google and Other Unicorns

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            With ample lines of credit and a relaxed global monetary policy, AT&T can easily move up and down the ICE food chain with ...
Sunday, October 23, 2016

AOL-Time Warner ($160 Billion in 2000) vs. AT&T-Time Warner ($85 Billion in 2017): Is It Different This Time?

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            A little over 16 years ago, the merger of Time Warner and America Online resulted in an unprecedented loss in market capitaliza...
Saturday, October 22, 2016

AT&T—Time Warner and the Mixed Results in Vertical Integration by Bellheads

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              Another day, another multi-billion dollar merger in the telecommunications marketplace.   See http://www.wsj.com/articles/at-...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

Regulation by Contractual Fine Print

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            Advocates for telecommunications deregulation work themselves into a lather when thinking about how government regulation kill...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Take-Aways From the Yahoo Network-wide Scan

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            Yahoo appears to have provided the U.S government with key word scanning of each and every email message traversing the Y...
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Friday, September 16, 2016

The Strategy in Smartphone Battery Location

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             Once upon a time, most cellphone users could easily replace their batteries should they want to extend the life of their hand...
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Friday, September 9, 2016

So This is How the Internet of Things Works

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             This week my digital printer notified the office systems administrator by email that it needed a replacement ink cartridge.  ...
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...