Thursday, September 18, 2025

Strategic Capitulation to Speech Threats at Great Public Expense

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Never in my 45-year career in telecommunications law and policy,  have I witnessed a cascade of public and private tactics and stunts that c...
Monday, July 28, 2025

Mistruths and Snark Combined in Andy Kessler’s Good Riddance to Public Media

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Rarely does a Wall Street Journal op-ed eschew snark, righteous indignation, sanctimony, and arrogance. It comes with the territory, but I ...
Monday, June 2, 2025

New Publication: Rob Frieden, Dangers from Regulatory Vacuums in Outer, Inner, and Near Space, 90 J. AIR L. & COM. 3 (2025)

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  ABSTRACT              Space, "the final frontier," has become an attractive, but increasingly risky market for both public and p...
Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Proof Wireless Carriers Would Rather Not Compete on Price

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           For years, I have expressed an educated opinion that wireless carriers would rather not “devote sleepless afternoons competing.” ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Reviling Universal Service Subsidies and then Touting the Results

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             Today, the Supreme Court will consider a challenge to the universal service subsidy program established soon after the introduc...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

What If Moving Fast Results in Unrepairable, Broken Things Like Inner Space and Earth’s Upper Atmosphere?

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               Until 2014, Facebook’s official mantra was “move fast and break things” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Move_fast_and_break_th...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Add Millions More to the Musk Account

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            A Feb. 11th New York Times article missed a sizeable subsidy from the Federal Communications Commission that will add millions ...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Distinguished Researcher Award

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  As someone who regularly devotes hours creating a single footnote for an academic manuscript, I am grateful to get any sort of public re...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Two Works in Progress on Threats to Space Commerce

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     My current research agenda focuses on the growing threats to space commerce from space debris, the growing risk that space will become ...
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...