The EU’s latest round of mobile price regulation provides a golden opportunity to show how market competition produces much better results for consumers than government price regulation. Ironically, the European Parliament voted this week to lower mobile roaming charges by mid-2014 to levels that will...
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Wireless Spectrum
“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,...
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Consumer Groups’ Advocacy Hypocrisy
Consumer groups by definition are supposed to be protecting consumers’ interests — not be pushing a special interest political agenda under the guise of the “public interest.” Let’s spotlight a recent and blatant hypocrisy whereby consumer groups near-completely ignored an instance of obvious widespread consumer...
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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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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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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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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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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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NetCompetition Statement on Verizon/Cable-SpectrumCo Transaction
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 2, 2011 Contact: Scott Cleland 703-217-2407 Verizon/SpectrumCo Deal Reflects Metamorphosis of Communications Competition Broadband, Internet, & Cloud Computing Technologies Creating Omni-Modal Competition WASHINGTON D.C. – Verizon Wireless’ purchase of 20 MHz of currently unused, near-nationwide AWS spectrum from Comcast, Time Warner...
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