Thursday, July 20, 2023

Nipping in the Bud Any Reassessment of Merger Guidelines

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             The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission have released for public comment proposed new guidelines designed to add...
Friday, July 14, 2023

Blog Catharsis

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      Even recognizing that few people will ever come across my blog, some degree of catharsis and validation accrues.  I am glad to get som...

Vanguard Saves Millions By Requiring Most Clients to Print Out Statements

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 The money crunchers at Vanguard Investments recently changed their rules to make their mailing of hard copy documents an expensive option. ...
Wednesday, June 28, 2023

The Making of a Digital Curmudgeon

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             OK, I recognize that I have never been this old and the elderly—bless their hearts—tend to stick with the reliable and proven. ...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Market Forces Preempted by Rising Risk and Regulation?

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             This might not be the best time for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to make the case that rising risk and regulation are harming t...
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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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