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...
Read more
Innovation
By-Pass Pricing New Entrants New Investment Cloud Stats
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...
Read more
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...
Read more
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Innovation, Hurts Consumers,” puts a spotlight on how America’s century-old communications law and regulatory framework is obsolete and strangles America’s innovation potential. ...
Read more
“Leaf” Vision & Broadband Usage Caps
Near hysterical opponents of broadband data usage caps need to breathe slowly, drop their magnifying glass, look up and take in the big world all around them. They are not just missing the forest for the trees, they are missing the leaves, stems, branches, trees,...
Read more
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...
Read more
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...
Read more
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...
Read more
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...
Read more
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...
Read more
Share This!