Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Grievous Defects in the AT&T-Time Warner Court Decision

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            A preliminary reading of the District Court decision (available at: http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/files/17-2511opin...
Monday, June 11, 2018

Legacy Antitrust Models Have Legs in the Internet Ecosystem: AT&T’s Acquisition of Time Warner

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            A day after the FCC’s termination of network neutrality rules, District Court Judge Richard J. Leon will announce the verdic...
Friday, June 8, 2018

The Sun Will Rise on Monday Even With the Sunset of Network Neutrality

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By all accounts, the prior Network Neutrality regime will evaporate on Monday June 11, 2018.  The earth will spin on its axis and  it will ...
Monday, April 30, 2018

How Consumers Suffer from the Sprint-TMobile Merger

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            In the upcoming weeks, Americans will see and hear millions of dollars in happy talk about the proposed merger of Sprint and ...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

The FCC’s 2018 Broadband Report: How Do You Politicize a Statistical Report?

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            One of the blessings and curses of my calling includes the perceived duty to read as many key FCC documents as possible.  Of...
Sunday, April 15, 2018

Freedom to Discriminate: Assessing the Lawfulness and Utility of Biased Broadband Networks

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Hello All: You might have an interest in a deep dive on broadand zero rating:  http://www.jetlaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2_Frieden...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

I Won’t Get Over the Loss of Privacy Expectations

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            Long ago, the CEO of computer manufacturer Sun Microsystems concluded that consumer privacy was a “red herring,” because on...
Friday, February 16, 2018

The Carriers’ Carrier Option for 5G Wireless

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            You might have heard about a National Security Council initiative identifying the security and public safety benefits in havin...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Drunk on Deregulation

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In this time of intellectual, political and philosophical rigidity, I embrace eclecticism and flexibility. I have suffered in the market...
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Thursday, January 11, 2018

FCC Preemption of State Network Neutrality Initiatives

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             In a less emphasized, but important initiative, the FCC set out its preemption of any state attempt to legislate network neu...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

A Deep Dive into the FCC’s Circulated Restoring Internet Freedom Document

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              Press accounts and the FCC’s own summary, provide a general sense of how the Commission rationalizes its abandonment of netw...
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Wednesday, December 6, 2017

“Restoring” Internet Freedom for Whom?

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            Recently, a colleague in the Bellisario College of Communications, asked me who gets a freedom boost from the FCC’s upcoming d...
Friday, December 1, 2017

The Misguided Wisdom in Substituting the Generalist FTC for Sector-Specific FCC Expertise

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            A number of important, fundamental questions about the scope and nature of government oversight lie within the broad and breat...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Regulation as a Manageable Cost Center: The Example of Network Neutrality and the AT&T Acquistion of Time Warner

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            Moving in for the kill, incumbent carriers have stretched their home team advantage.  With millions in lobbying, campaign cont...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

The Ambivalently Federalist FCC

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            With all this talk about draining the Washington, D.C. swamp and its entrenched federal government occupants, the FCC remains ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

AT&T-Time Warner: More than a Vertical Merger

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            Proponents of AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner simplistically frame the deal as vertical integration by a c...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

What’s a Fair Burden of Proof in Forecasting Future Benefits, or Harms?

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           On many occasions, the FCC and reviewing courts have to decide who bears the burden of proving something, what they have to pr...

Would You Pay a 400% Surcharge for Connected Networks?

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          With the well past due retirement of America Online’s Instant Messenger, I thought about  interconnectivity concerns in light of...
Friday, September 22, 2017

Winners and Losers in the Sprint-TMobile Merger

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            In this age of easily borrowed billions, outdated antitrust policy and largely libertarian regulatory oversight, the informati...