TeleFrieden

A provocative, unsponsored assessment of current and future legal, regulatory, marketplace, and cultural issues affecting telecommunications and information policy presented by Rob Frieden, Academy and Emeritus Professor of Telecommunications and Law, Penn State University

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

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Greed by Algorithm             The adage about the stock market applies to both human and machine greediness: Bulls make money and be...
Monday, July 16, 2018

Corporate Welfare, Cronyism and Excess: The AccuWeather Case Study

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            Bloomsburg BusinessWeek provides a thorough and distressing account of unsavory business practices originating in my small...
Sunday, July 15, 2018

What the Justice Department Got Wrong in Opposing the AT&T –Time Warner Merger

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            In a previous post, I offered insights on grievous flaws in the court decision rejecting the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Radical, Judicial Activism in a Kavanaugh Dissent

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            Starting today, Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh will start a carefully orchestrated charm offensive highlightin...
Friday, July 6, 2018

Wall Street Journal Fact Checking Quiz

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Today's Wall Street Journal  (July 6, 2018) includes the following sentences in a editorial about the departure of EPA Administrator: ...
Sunday, July 1, 2018

Comcast Sneaks in Another Billing Line Item and “Earns” an Additional $1 Billion

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            My Comcast bill arrived today with a sneaky new $2.68 charge, $2.50 for leasing one (and only one) set top box and $0.18 fo...
Friday, June 22, 2018

Life in the Antitrust Wonderland: Suspension of Disbelief and the TMobile-Sprint Merger

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            Counsel for TMobile has filed a provocative and downright remarkable   Description of Transaction, Public Interest Statemen...
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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