Sunday, February 15, 2026

New Publication: The Commercial Space Marketplace in Flux

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You might have an interest in my deep dive on the promises and pitfalls in the space commerce gold rush. The paper will appear in the an edi...
Thursday, February 5, 2026

SpaceX Proposes a Million More Satellites on Paper

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             SpaceX has filed a groundbreaking proposal to launch and operate one million small satellites as a data center in space. See ht...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Might I Have Identified an Editorial Flaw in a New Yorker Article?

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          Readers of the New Yorker probably know that everyone affiliated with production of the magazine takes extreme pride in the editin...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2025

The National Security Trump Card in Spectrum and Wind Farm Policy

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          National security concerns often provide a “first among equals” status for government agencies having both justifiable and questio...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

The Federal Communications Commission and the Unitary Executive Doctrine

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          In a rational and intellectually honest jurisprudential world, the FCC’s jurisdictional wingspan would invalidate any grand expans...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

A Three Second Appearance on the Today Show

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                Today, I achieved a dubious new record for the shortest appearance in a national media news report.   See https://www.today....
Thursday, October 9, 2025

Courts Approving Algorithmic Pricing Without Explicit Agreement Ignore Reality

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Yet again,  a federal court has embraced sponsored research and advocacy to legitimize an obvious case of implicit collusion that results in...
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 ...