Monday, January 23, 2017

An Open Letter to FCC Chairman-Nominee Ajit Pai

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Dear Commissioner Pai: Congratulations on your likely nomination to become Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.   For t...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

TMobile’s 480p Video Delivery Gambit: Tiering, or Throttling?

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Predictably, and perhaps appropriately, broadband carriers are spending sleepless afternoons crafting new ways to diversify service withou...
Monday, January 16, 2017

Who Pays What to Whom in the Internet Ecosystem?

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Internet interconnections and compensation arrangements have been based on voluntary terms and conditions after government underwriting sto...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Insights on Future FCC Decision-making Gleaned From a Judicial Dissent

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            As unorthodox as it might seem, Senior Circuit Judge Stephen F. Williams dissenting opinion in a major FCC case offers a likely...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

In Praise of Domestic Engineering

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     My dear wife, Katie, broke two ankle bones while walking two dogs only a few hours after arriving at her elderly parents’ home in Medi...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Likely and Behind the Scenes Changes at the FCC

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             It should come as no surprise that the Federal Communications Commission will substantially change its regulatory approach, w...
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Sunday, November 27, 2016

Reform the FCC!

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In this volatile and contentious time, it has become even more likely that any advocacy position may trigger misperception, intentional or ...

A Curious Blend of Millennial Indignation and Glitchy Bar Code Pricing

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            A grocery store cashier called me a liar and shot me the bird yesterday as I insisted a 2 for 1 promotion applied to my pretze...
Monday, November 14, 2016

Oh Joy: Another Group of Email Addressees Who Ignore My Correspondence

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            As a parent, college instructor and occasional job applicant, I am used to non-responses.   I regularly eat humble pie and I re...
Friday, November 4, 2016

A Nuanced Analysis of Zero Rating

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            Zero rating has become the next network neutrality issue in light of two simultaneously occurring marketplace developments: 1)...
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Direct and Indirect Ways the FCC Will Weigh in on the AT&T-Time Warner Merger

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            Depending on your economic and political alliance, I have good, or bad news.   I fully expect the FCC to lend its regulatory “...
Monday, October 31, 2016

Another Day, Another $34 Billion in Telecom Industry Consolidation

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            Today’s mega-merger combines CenturyLink and Level 3 Communications, two major players, but surely not on most consumers’ rada...
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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