June 7, 2013 Please see my latest Daily Caller Op-ed: “FCC/DOJ’s One Gigahertz Spectrum Charade”. It’s Part 8 of my Government Spectrum Waste, Fraud & Abuse Research Series. * * * * * Government Spectrum Waste Fraud and Abuse Research Series Part 1: U.S. Government’s...
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Corporate Welfare
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 Special Access, Communications Obsolete-ism – Daily Caller Op-ed (Part 3)
June 8, 2012 Please read my latest Daily Caller Op-ed: “FCC Special Access: Communications Obsolete-ism vs. Modernism” 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” *** Precursor Special...
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Netflix’ Net Neutrality Corporate Welfare Plan (Part 10 of a Series)
Apparently Netflix is angling to become Silicon Valley’s king of corporate welfare. We learn from a New York Times economics column advocating for an Internet industrial policy that “Netflix is trying to build a coalition of businesses to make the case for… net neutrality.” And...
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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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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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FCC Seeks Unbounded Spectrum Auction Authority
At CES, the FCC signaled that it opposed any effort by Congress to give the FCC policy direction or to establish any checks and balances on the FCC in authorizing incentive auctions of prime TV broadcast spectrum. See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post “FCC Seeks...
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Netflix’ Uneconomics
Netflix’ continues to exhibit serious difficulties grasping basic economics, competition and value. First, Netflix is lowering its value to customers. Netflix now charges its subscribers’ 60% more in September in return for lots less premium content available for subscribers in February, as Netflix just lost Starz,...
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Netflix’ Glass House Temper Tantrum over Broadband Usage Fees
Netflix continues to throw stones at the common economic practice of usage-based pricing, to which broadband carriers are naturally migrating, all while Netflix stands inside a glass house filled with mis-managed usage pricing practices. Netflix as Stone Thrower: In a concerted campaign for net neutrality regulation...
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FCC Out-Europes Europe on Net Neutrality — Why?
“The Net Neutrality Debate in Europe is Over” per an excellent commentary by Ben Rooney in WSJ TechEurope. Mr. Rooney chronicles the evolving public position of EU Digital Commissioner Neelie Kroes from an original pro net neutrality regulation mindset, to now the opposite — a...
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