April 15, 2013 Please see my latest Daily Caller Op-ed: “DOJ Joins FCC in Picking Wireless Winners and Losers”. It’s Part 7 of my Government Spectrum Waste, Fraud & Abuse Research Series. * * * * * Government Spectrum Waste, Fraud and Abuse Research Series...
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Antitrust
Debasing Free Speech as No-Cost Speech – Part 1 Defending First Principles Series
November 19, 2012 The genuine U.S. Constitutional principle of “Freedom of Speech” in the First Amendment — that protects us from the real and time-tested threat of governmental tyranny — continues to get debased, devalued and misrepresented by the free-of-cost tech movement of Free-Culture, the...
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Will Google Become SoftBank – Sprint’s Silent Partner?
October 18, 2012 Like most analysts, I am not persuaded by the stated rationale and synergies SoftBank has put forth to justify its acquisition of Sprint. At bottom the deal is financial engineering: balance sheet and exchange rate arbitrage; and market timing. It appears to...
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Verizon Cable: DOJ-FCC Approval Endgame (Part 11 in a Series)
July 13, 2012 The Verizon-Cable spectrum sale remains on path for DOJ-FCC approval because it is fundamentally pro-competitive, in the public interest, creates the foundation for a fifth national wireless competitor, puts fallow spectrum to work fastest, and its approval will result in secondary market...
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Why FTC’s $22.5m Google Privacy-Fine is Faux Accountability
July 12, 2012 If one fact-checks and puts in perspective the FTC’s expected $22.5m privacy fine of Google — for bypassing millions of Apple Safari users’ privacy and security settings to add a tracking cookie to track users browsing activity — it looks like faux...
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Video: Why Netflix’ Net Neutrality Complaint to DOJ is Specious
June 19, 2012 Thanks to Mike Wendy of Media Freedom for capturing my 3 minute explanation of why Netflix’ net neutrality complaint to the DOJ against cable broadband usage pricing is specious. You can view it here. ...
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Google’s Picking a Third Antitrust Fight in Becoming a Domain Registrar
June 19, 2012 Is anyone paying attention to the profound antitrust implications of Google applying to ICANN to become the world’s largest domain registrar for Internet Taxonomy 2.0 — the next generation of Internet addressing and classification of information? Giving the world’s dominant search engine...
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Obsolete Analysis Will Doom DOJ’s Antitrust Probe of Cable — My Daily Caller Op-ed
June 14, 2012 Please read my latest Daily Caller Op-ed: “Obsolete Analysis Will Doom DOJ’s Antitrust Probe of Cable” here. ***** Obsolete Communications Law Op-ed Series: Part 1: “Obsolete communications law stifles innovation, harms consumers” Part 2: “The FCC’s Public Interest Test Problem” Part 3:...
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FCC’s Public Interest Test Problem – My Daily Caller Op-ed (Part 2 in a series)
Please read my latest Daily Caller Op-ed: “The FCC’s Public Interest Test Problem”. Part 1 of my Obsolete Communications Law series: “Obsolete communications law stifles innovation, hurts consumers”....
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Google Has No Free Speech Right to Break the Law
Google’s latest claimed antitrust get-out-of-jail-free-card is that Google is effectively immune from antitrust prosecution because it has a constitutional free speech right to free speech to rank and present its search results any way it wants, per a new Google-sponsored white paper by UCLA Law...
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