Tuesday, November 16, 2021

A RUSSIA Acronym: Ruthlessly Undermining Small Satellite International Access

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            In a universally contemned, knucklehead move, the Russian government used an anti-satellite missile to pulverize a deactivated s...
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Friday, November 5, 2021

Making Sense Out of the FAA’s Power Play on 5G

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           With growing frustration, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has failed to get traction on its concerns about the potential...
Saturday, October 30, 2021

Refuting the “Laws” of Economics . . . One at a Time

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             The Covid-supply chain debacle, and the short-term thinking that has created shortages of nearly everything, except for exculpa...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Challenging a NYT Column Singing the Praises of Platforms and Dismissing Their Network Effects

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The September 4, 2021 edition of the New York Times contains an article written by Professor Jonathan A. Knee entitled Network Effects are O...
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Walmart The Price Gouger

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When it comes to pricing, the conventional wisdom considers Walmart the regular low price leader, much like Southwest Airlines.  Think again...
Monday, September 6, 2021

What Rat You Out Smartphone Surveillance Do You Support?

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At law school, I learned about the slippery slope of changing fact patterns that typically trigger a change in analysis and which side of a ...
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Monday, August 16, 2021

Tracking Inconsistent Zigs and Zags in Telecom Policy Research

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Sponsored researchers surely embrace Oscar Wilde’s view that “consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”  Why bother building a m...
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Thursday, June 10, 2021

When a Confirmed Reservation Means Nothing of the Sort

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A few hours before the time for delivery of a rental car, a local rep called to renege: no apology, no explanation, no offer to mitigate dam...
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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