May 16, 2013 Please see my latest Daily Caller Op-ed: “America’s private video market success”. –It debunks Free Press’ diatribe against cable to try and promote net neutrality regulation and a ban on usage-based broadband pricing. –It is Part 16 of my broadband Internet pricing...
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Don’t Miss Litan-Singer Book: The Need for Speed
February 28, 2013 Kudos to Robert Litan and Hal Singer for the clarity-of-thought and free market policy wisdom in their new book: “The Need for Speed: A New Framework for Telecommunications Policy for the 21st Century.” Here is the link to the book on Amazon....
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Daily Caller Op-ed: Why Europe is Falling Behind America in Broadband – Part 5 Modernization Consensus Series
February 13, 2013 Please see my Daily Caller Op-ed “Why Europe is Falling Behind America in Broadband”, part 5 of the Modernization Consensus Series. * * * * * Modernization Consensus Series (Note: This research series previews strategic developments that could encourage consensus to modernize...
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Top Ten Flaws in FCC’s AT&T / T-Mobile Competition Analysis
The unprecedented release of a FCC draft staff analysis opposing the proposed AT&T / T-Mobile transaction could backfire legally, undermining its intent to backstop the DOJ’s pending lawsuit against the merger. See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post on the “Top Ten Flaws in the FCC’s...
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The FCC’s public wireless network blocks lawful Internet traffic
According to the FCC’s own hard-to-find disclosure, the FCC does not operate its own broadband “public use wireless ‘Hotspot’ network” according to the FCC’s Open Internet regulations that it mandated for most everyone else. Without this link to the policy, one would have to stumble upon...
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Rural Cellular’s Dilemma: Can’t Win the Future, Anchored to the Past
The Rural Cellular Association’s opposition to the AT&T/T-Mobile acquisition puts a spotlight on the un-sustainability of the analog rural cellular model that is on the wrong side of broadband change. The clear but unspoken subtext of the RCA’s opposition is their recognition that their current...
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The Dangers of Over-Regulating Competition
As a regular reader of Steve Pearlstein’s Washington Post’s business column, I was dismayed at the consistent pro-regulation frame of Sunday’s piece on the AT&T-T-Mobile acquisition: “The Revenge of the Baby Bells.” The hallmark of longstanding bipartisan competition policy has been that if market players have...
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Denying Competitive Substitution is Weakest Link of FCC’s De-Competition Policy
In order to justify broadband price regulation in the Open Internet and Data Roaming orders, the FCC and FreePress must continue to undermine Congress’ competition policy by denying the increasingly obvious and incontrovertible facts that users competitively substitute broadband services between various broadband technologies like...
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FCC’s In Search of Relevance in 706 Report
The FCC’s latest arbitrary and capricious torturing of the facts, law, and common sense, in its most recent 706 report, makes it obvious that the FCC is “in search of relevance” and highly insecure about its authority and role in the broadband competition era. Apparently,...
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The Net Neutrality Accountability Gauntlet
The House’s rejection of the FCC’s December Open Internet order 240-179 is just the latest in an ongoing high-profile accountability gauntlet for the FCC’s unauthorized, unwarranted and unjustified net neutrality rules. While the wheels of democracy, public accountability, and the rule of law can turn...
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