Thursday, July 25, 2024

The We Don’t Want to Pay for Universal Telecommunications Access Litigants Finally Hit Paydirt

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             For several years now, a well-funded litigation group has sought a federal appellate court decision deeming unconstitutional co...
Thursday, July 4, 2024

An Epidemic of Overreach at the Supreme Court, FCC and Beyond

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             Recent precedent overturning decisions by the Supreme Court prompted thoughts about the human proclivity to overreach when assu...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Who Needs Humility When you have a 6-3 Advantage?

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             Yet again, the Supreme Court conservative majority overreaches in a decision that probably harms their benefactors who think di...
Monday, June 24, 2024

Emerging Private Lawsuits for Damages from Falling Space Debris

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     Emerging Private Lawsuits for Damages from Falling Space Debris              When authorizing the dumping of spent nickel-hydrogen ba...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Left Wing “Gotcha Journalism” Is Not OK Either

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               A documentary filmmaker and self-described “advocacy journalist,” posing as a Catholic conservative, secretly recorded the pr...

Even the News Side of The Wall Street Journal Embraces Partisanship

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The Wall Street Journal claims to have bright line separation between its partisan editorial side and its straight shooting news operation. ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

I’m Not Buying the Plausible Deniability Gambit of AT&T Wireless

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             AT&T Wireless has appealed the FCC’s $57 million fine for monetizing up to the minute subscriber location data that the com...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

About That Universal Service “Tax”

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            Universal service opponents like to claim in real courts, and the court of public opinion, that the surcharge imposed by carrier...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Thought Exercise on CPNI

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             I recognize that many of my posts are technical, complex, and “inside baseball.”  However, the matter of wireless carrier discl...

How Much Did the U.S. Wireless Carriers “Earn” From “Location Information Aggregators”?

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             The FCC lawfully fined U.S. facilities-based wireless carriers nearly $200 million for selling highly intrusive location data a...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Does the FCC Have a Safe Harbor to Deregulate Despite the 1994 MCI Case Precedent?

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             The prior blog entry suggested that the Supreme Court would have to use a semantic sleight of hand to approve FCC deregulatory ...
Friday, April 26, 2024

Does the Supreme Court Conservative Majority Want to Prevent Regulatory Agencies from Responding to Technological Innovation and Changed Circumstances?

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               Despite ample and longstanding case precedent, the Supreme Court appears ready to prevent regulatory agencies from acting whe...
Thursday, April 25, 2024

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board's Faulty Memory

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             You would think the Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal would remember what it wrote about network neutrality. In its A...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Can You Hear Me Now?

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            Yet again, a significant wireless network outage has caught users unaware.  See https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/business/at...
Friday, February 16, 2024

A Brief Primer on Anti-satellite Warfare Tactics

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A Brief Primer on Anti-satellite Warfare Tactics Satellites make it possible for governments to provide essential services, such as nation...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Lies, Damn Lies, and Selective Statistics About Our Great Wireless Marketplace Thanks to the TMobile Acquisition of Sprint

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               In the February 13 th edition of the Wall Street Journal , Professor Thomas W. Hazlett offers a breathless endorsement of ma...
Thursday, February 8, 2024

The Quickening Pace of Landline Retirement

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Sooner rather than later, landline telephone service will completely transition to wireless and Internet-based calling, commonly referred to...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Antitrust Judicial Review That Gets It Right

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               Just when one reasonably could assume that no federal appellate court could possibly do the right thing in a merger review, p...
Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Remarkably Bad Consumer Protection at the FCC

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 Wireless carrier deception and outright violations of FCC rules and regulation should not come as a surprise.  No wonder consumers hold AT...