Monday, May 24, 2021

And on the Left: Preciousness With a Dash of Sanctimony

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             Regular readers of this blog know that I have clear contempt for snark and deliberate mistruths propagated by newspapers whose ...
Sunday, May 16, 2021

Infrastructure Ransomware Targets Are Not Victims

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            Companies, like Colonial Pipeline, accrue rich margins for the essential service they provide.  Whether by regulator-granted mon...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

Side-by-Side Truth and Mistruth in the Wall Street Journal

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             Even as the Wall Street Journal continues to provide important news reporting, its opinion pieces grow ever snarkier and more ...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Can You Hear Me Now?—The Wireline Edition

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Regardless of the business cycle and overall economy, tradespeople in my rural enclave follow a different drummer.  Most work when they fe...
Friday, February 19, 2021

Fun With Math: How the Wall Street Journal Doubles Down on Vilifying Green Power Generation

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             Just about everyone, with some complicity in the Texas power shortage, persist in blaming green power sources for failing at th...
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Did the Wall Street Journal Deliberately Lie to Vilify Reliance on Wind Power?

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             Today, the Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal reports that wind power represents 42% of the currently generated power ...
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Friday, January 22, 2021

Network Neutrality: Cause and Effect

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Perhaps you might join me in wondering how sponsored researchers managed to convince FCC Chairman Pai and others that network neutrality reg...

Local Broadcast Market Concentration Promotes More Local News Operations?

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            At the eleventh hour, the Ajit Pai-led FCC released an economic study examining the impact of market size and concentration on t...
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Thursday, December 24, 2020

Supreme Court Friend of the Court Brief

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      I accepted the invitation to help write a Friend of the Court brief in the Supreme Court's consideration whether the FCC can furth...
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Friday, November 27, 2020

Academic Award Tombstone Just Like Deal Closing Collectible

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             Years ago, when I worked as a lowly Associate at private communications law firms, I pondered the meaning of Partners’ small Lu...
Sunday, November 22, 2020

Why Would a Fundamental Economic “Rule” Not Apply?

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Textbook economics doctrine considers gospel truth the need for sellers to reduce the price of a product or service when demand shrinks, o...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

NewTMobile and the Real World Reluctance to Spend Sleepless Afternoons Innovating and Competing

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On a day when the FCC spews platitude after platitude in response to three substantive issues remanded to it by a reviewing court (see RIF...
Friday, October 16, 2020

Freedom of Speech Hypocrites

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Conservatives’ whining about a liberal bias in social media strikes me as hypocritical.  When Fox et al receive criticism about a conserva...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2020

5G Public/ Private Partnerships Versus Auctions

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             A remarkable battle pits the Defense Department and the FCC/Congress on the best strategy to activate 5G wireless spectrum in t...
Friday, October 9, 2020

Recent Publications

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During these challenging times, on good days I managed to make progress on my research and writing agenda: I'm glad to send you copies.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Misrepresentations in the Rat You Out Economy

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              Most readers over the age of 30 probably know the meaning of “rat you out.”  In crime movies and elsewhere, someone discloses ...
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Why Spend More Than $6.25 Billion on a Company that Primarily Resells Your Service?

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  You might wonder why Verizon would pay a hefty premium to buy the U.S. wireless resale flavors of America Movil’s TracFone.  See   https...
Thursday, September 10, 2020

Game, Set and Match: How the Cable Industry Generated Billions by Making Their Set Top Boxes Irreplaceable

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               This week the FCC tacitly admitted that it lacked the willpower, intellect and courage to mandate a competitive market for ca...
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Friday, August 28, 2020

Timely Insights From Conversation with a Nautical Buoy Tender Nearly Forty Years Ago

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               Once upon a time, when many of us regularly traveled by air, I took pleasure in striking up conversations with amenable, fell...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Learned Helplessness: How The Wall Street Journal Could Not Find a Way to Make Timely Delivery of Its Product

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Much to the chagrin of my liberal wife, I have subscribed to The Wall Street Journal for over thirty years.  Today I canceled my subscript...
Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Walking on Egg Shells, Failing a Litmus Test and Shown the Door

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FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly probably will leave the FCC far sooner than anyone would have anticipated a few days ago.  See https:...

Hipster and Geriatric Antitrust Doctrine

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Relentless concentration in broadband and other industries, coupled with ever increasing market power, has triggered more interest in anti...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

When Economist-Created “Rules” and “Laws” Do Not Work or Are Forgotten

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            Having frequently chatted with economists and read many textbooks and articles on economic subjects, I marvel at the absolu...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

Tolerating Hubris at the New York Times

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            While I am in the tilting at windows and then giving up mood (see entry on how Instagram will not help eliminate an imposto...

What Do Facebook and Outdoor Swimming Pools Have in Common?

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            You do not have to be a public figure for someone to hack your social network account and attempt to charm your friends int...