TeleFrieden

A provocative, unsponsored assessment of current and future legal, regulatory, marketplace, and cultural issues affecting telecommunications and information policy presented by Rob Frieden, Academy and Emeritus Professor of Telecommunications and Law, Penn State University

Saturday, January 4, 2025

The Deeply Baked First Amendment Rights and Limited Responsibilities of Information Service Providers

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The network neutrality tennis match has been called in favor of the Republican Information Service team over Network Neutrality Democrats....
Friday, January 3, 2025

Unintended Consequences When the FCC Cannot Use Its Expertise and Respond to Changed Circumstances

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           The conservative majority in the Supreme Court has worked tirelessly to prevent regulatory agencies from using their expertise to...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

A Small Bucket List Achievement Courtesy of the New York Times

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  Perhaps consistent with my academic and applied search for the truth, I have made it a mission to report errors appearing in the New York ...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Prepare For a Quite Impactful New Definition of “Trace Greenhouse Gases”

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             While I concentrate on finding truth affecting telecommunications and information policy, I cannot self-censor on the latest in...
Friday, November 15, 2024

Privatizing Weather Forecasting in the U.S.: What a Wild, Wrong, and Reckless Idea

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           Continuing my analysis of telecommunications-oriented play book ideas in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 , I now consider ...
Thursday, November 7, 2024

Nine Information Economy Policy Reversals Coming to a Marketplace Near You!

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          Presidential elections have real impacts arriving quickly.  I think the following changed policies and strategies will happen fast...
Sunday, October 6, 2024

Yet Again the Editorial Board of The Wall Street Distorts Wireless Market Reality

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           The Saturday Oct. 5 th 2024 edition of the Wall Street Journal falsely claims that wireless telecommunications rates in the U.S...
Monday, September 30, 2024

The Inconvenient Truth About Wireless Network Resiliency

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           Rarely does a week go by without a news report of a wireless network outage.  Just now, the lack of wireless access in Western No...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

The Frequently Attempted, But Rarely Successful Identification of Causation

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             First, thanks to anyone who sees a daunting title like this one and nevertheless reads on. I want to discuss whether and how re...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Increasingly Unmeasurable Consumer Welfare When Governments Market Meddle

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           Currently, both U.S. presidential candidates tout the benefits of having government intervene in commercial markets.  Former Pres...
Friday, August 2, 2024

The Role of Chronic Radio Interoperability Impediments in the Butler, PA Assassination Attempt

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  There are many inconvenient truths about radio spectrum sharing and transceiver interoperability that require full ventilation and resol...
Monday, July 29, 2024

Maverick Capitulation: Why TMobile and Southwest Airlines Abandoned Their Core Values

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      Once upon a time, TMobile prided itself as the “uncarrier” wireless company.  After acquiring Sprint, it quickly abandoned a strong ...
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...
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Rob Frieden
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