Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Shoot First with Snark and Maybe Check the Facts Later: Mistruths and Market Misperception by WSJ Columnist Holman W. Jenkins

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            I was doing well on my self-imposed moratorium from correcting the frequent intentional and unintended mistakes in Wall Str...
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Saturday, July 27, 2019

5 Guaranteed Future Outcomes from the Sprint-TMobile Lovefest—Part Two

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            John Legere will serve as the new TMobile CEO, so the possibility exists that he’ll maintain the love of pink—make that magen...
Friday, July 26, 2019

5 Guaranteed Future Outcomes from the Sprint-TMobile Lovefest

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Now that the U.S. Justice Department has planted a big kiss of approval on the combination of Sprint and TMobile, I predict 5 near term ou...
Monday, June 17, 2019

Empirical Tests for Assessing the Consumer and Marketplace Consequences of the Sprint-TMobile Merger

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            You probably have seen one or more versions of the advertisements touting the consumer benefits in the Sprint-TMobile merge...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

Did the Justice Department Embrace Competition-Lite as a Merger Lifeline?

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            Many press accounts report that the U.S. Justice Department will support the spin-off of Sprint’s wireless reseller, Boost ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

What’s Good for TMobile, Sprint and an FCC Chairman is Good for America?

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            Some of you might remember the adage that “what’s good for IBM, is good for America.”   In a kinder, gentle and more naïve ...
Monday, April 29, 2019

What the Mergers by and of U.S. Airways Tell Us About the TMobile Sprint Merger

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             You might join me in the contempt for the various sponsored (“coin-operated”) scholars who sing the praises of the TMobile and...
Thursday, April 25, 2019

Adventures in Algorithms: My Word Against the ATM

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            Once upon a time, when we regularly used CD and DVD disc drives, most of us occasionally experienced the frustration of not...
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Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Adventures in Cord Shaving

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             Tired of paying Comcast slightly over $30 a month for 5 broadcast networks and little else, I embraced OTAR: over the air r...
Sunday, March 10, 2019

Five Inconvenient Facts about the Migration to 5G Wireless

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            An unprecedented disinformation campaign purposefully distorts what consumers and governments understand about the upcoming fi...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Lower Court Approval of AT&T-Time Warner Merger

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            The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court’s unconditional approval of AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warne...
Monday, January 14, 2019

The FCC Really, Really Does Care About Making Spoofing Illegal

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             My prior blog entry noted that an unexpected consequence of classifying texting as an information service lies in having to ...
Friday, January 11, 2019

OMG! The FCC Just Legalized Spoofing!

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            Most people loathe robocalls and spam: unsolicited commercial, extortionate and sometime criminal pitches by telephone, text ...