Friday, April 7, 2023

The Highly Questionable Assertion that Regulation Stifles Innovation

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             Big Pharma and Big Telecom endless repeat as gospel truth the highly questionable assertion that government oversight stifles i...
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Saturday, March 4, 2023

Premiumization: A New Word and Another Sneaky Way to Increase Profit Margins

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             The Sat. March 4, 2023 edition of the New York Times introduces a new word describing another way companies can offer consumers...
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Sunday, February 19, 2023

Weaponization of Inner Space Column in the Cleveland Plain Dealer

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You might have an interest in my "explainer" about the Chinese surveillance balloon and the likely dangerous repercussions:   http...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Lessons from Pretzel Skimpflation

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Long time readers of this blog may recall occasional pieces on consumer issues sometimes far afield from telecom. I see parallels, but perha...
Friday, October 28, 2022

New Publication on Space Junk and Anti-Satellite Warfare

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Senior Russian government officials have threated to destroy U.S. satellites.  See https://www.livemint.com/news/world/russia-threats-to-hit...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022

What Do Juries, Prunes, and Antitrust Policy Have in Common?

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Long ago, while a student at University of Virginia School of Law, my Criminal Procedure professor likened optimal jury size with the corr...
Saturday, October 15, 2022

Pre-FCC Self-regulation

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 Estate auctions have become one of the unexpected joys about living in rural Pennsylvania.  Never much of a collector, in my nearly thirty ...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Adventures in OTAR (Over the Air Television Reception)

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 Recently, I upgraded the outdoor antenna I use to receive broadcast television signals. Having fringe reception runs the risk of signal dis...
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Prospects for Widespread Access to Electric Vehicle Charging Stations: Insights From Telecommunications Technology Diffusion

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            An energy reporter, for a major daily business publication, contacted me to understand how electric vehicle charging stations mi...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

The We’re Doing You a Favor Marketplace

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             Countless vendors incessantly remind us how they must operate in “competitive marketplace,” with extraordinary challenges to pr...
Saturday, January 29, 2022

5G Bandwidth Expansion Triggers an Avoidable Aviation Safety Alarm

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  Warring U.S. government agencies continue to debate whether expanded fifth generation wireless service will interfere with aviation altitu...
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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...