The Washington Post’s lead story today, “Landline Rules Frustrate Telecoms,” puts a needed spotlight on obsolete communications law that: falsely assumes the telecom marketplace is still a monopoly with no consumer choice; and still mandates telecom companies subsidize below-cost, copper-line telephone service to households as...
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T-Mobile to FCC: Give us a Do-Over and Verizon’s Cable Spectrum Too
T-Mobile demanded last week that the FCC deny the Verizon-Cable spectrum license transfer, apparently so Deutsche Telecom/T-Mobile could get it at a deep FCC managed-market discount. The FCC is not Deutsche Telecom/T-Mobile’s personal do-over button that they can push and magically reset the marketplace to...
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FreePress’ Latest Net Neutrality Folly – Pushing for Shareholder Votes
FreePress’ latest net neutrality folly and political agitation is pushing the SEC to make shareholders from AT&T, Verizon and Sprint vote on inappropriate, ill-advised, and unwarranted proposed shareholder resolutions in favor of wireless net neutrality in the weeks ahead. Let me count the ways this...
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Verizon-Cable Hearing Exposes Weakness of Opposition
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on the proposed Verizon-Cable spectrum sale flushed out the opposition’s best arguments and evidence and they proved surprisingly weak and sparse. Behind the façade of FreePress’ trademark bumper-sticker bluster of “a competition crisis,” “a creeping duopoly,” and “spectrum warehousing,” there...
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Verizon-Cable Senate Hearing – Competitive Reality vs. FreePress Fiction
Hopefully, the March 21st Senate Judiciary Subcommittee oversight hearing on the Verizon-Cable spectrum transaction will be a fair hearing based on the competitive facts and the law, and is not allowed to be hijacked politically by FreePress’ signature gamesmanship. I. FreePress Fiction It is disturbing...
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Verizon-Cable: Opponents Need FCC to Overreach its Authority
The March 21st Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing reviewing the Verizon-cable agreements provides Congress with an opportunity to learn: How the metamorphosis of communications competition is increasing competition; How the Government has created artificial and temporary spectrum scarcity in failing to free up more spectrum for...
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Is Netflix the AOL of Web Streaming?
Netflix’ erratic and panicky behavior this past year is telling us that Netflix’ leadership fears they may becoming the AOL of web streaming. Remember AOL was the company that led the dial-up narrowband market, but fell way short in transitioning to broadband success. (Investors remember...
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Mobile Payments Ignite New Competitive Free-For-All
Mobile technology advances are dramatically increasing the intensity of competition broadly online and offline. The technological convenience of using a smart phone, tablet etc. rather than a card or cash to pay for goods and services, wherever one may be, is igniting a competitive free-for-all....
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Debunking the Carping over Broadband Usage-Pricing
Activist carping about the commercial Internet being commercial is revving up again, this time with the carping focused on framing new broadband usage-pricing innovations by Time Warner Cable and AT&T, as somehow a violation of the “open web.” To cut to the quick and translate...
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Why the Verizon-Cable Agreement is in the Public Interest
The evidence below shows the Verizon-Cable agreement is clearly in the public interest, if the FCC fairly reviews the agreement and all of the relevant facts, in the full context of the highly competitive wireless ecosystem. Top Reasons Why Verizon-Cable Agreement is in the Public...
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