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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Congress
Verizon-Cable Opponents Goading FCC to Overreach its Authority Again — Part 9 of Series
Opponents urging the FCC to block the Verizon-Cable secondary market spectrum transaction are pushing the FCC into dangerous institutional territory, effectively goading it to: overreach its statutory authority; ignore FCC precedent, evidence, and facts; and game its own spectrum-screen process. The same FreePress radical fringe...
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Obsolete Communications Law Stifles Innovation & Hurts Consumers — Daily Caller Op-ed
My Daily Caller Op-ed: “Obsolete Communications Law Stifles Innovation, Hurts Consumers,” puts a spotlight on how America’s century-old communications law and regulatory framework is obsolete and strangles America’s innovation potential. ...
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AAI’s Analysis of Verizon-Cable Is Industrial Policy Not Antitrust
Reading through The American Antitrust Institute’s white paper on Verizon-Cable, it is striking how little analysis is relevant to antitrust/market-competition and how it is basically a thinly-veiled tacit pitch for the DOJ and the FCC to pursue an aggressive industrial policy for the wireless industry....
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Objecting to Obsolete Obligations
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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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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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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