Monthly Archives: February 2012

Competition News: February 27, 2012

Study: Wireless Carriers Face Stiff Competition T-Mobile to Make Data Network Work with iPhone Netflix Shares Drop; Comcast Launching New Streaming Service AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile all claim to offer nation’s ‘largest 4G network’ Tablet Wars Set to Get Even More Competitive It’s Microsoft vs....
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Competition News: February 14, 2012

Erasing the Boundaries ‘App Economy’ Goes From 0 To 466,000 Jobs In Just Five Years The iPhone is a nightmare for carriers AT&T, Cloudscaling Open New Cloud Strategy Netflix gets competition with Verizon-Redbox deal Google set to give a little backbone to Kansas City high-speed...
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Spectrum: To Auction or Not to Auction?

The FCC’s recent call for unbounded spectrum auction authority spotlights an important debate over whether some of this scarce and extremely valuable wireless spectrum should be auctioned or not. •    Ironically the FCC is asking Congress to give it spectrum auction authority to not auction...
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Why the Verizon-Cable Agreement Increases Competition

Reports that the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the Verizon Wireless-Cable agreement spotlights an old truism: What one looks for, one sees. What the Government ultimately sees here largely will depend on whether the Government looks backward through an analog competitive lens...
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Competition News: February 3, 2012

The Wireless Equivalent of Fracking The Coming Tech-led Boom 96 percent of Google’s revenue is advertising, who buys it? (infographic) IPhone Powers and Pinches Verizon Netflix expects heightened competition from Amazon.com Tech Industry to Washington: It’s Your Turn...
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