Copyright and Wireless Carterfone (Part Deux)…
Last month, I authored a blog discussing the Librarian of Congress’s recent decision not to exempt handset unlocking of new phones from the anti-circumvention petitions of the Digital Millennium...
View ArticleNew America Foundation Misinterprets International Data (Again)…
In a recent report entitled The Cost of Connectivity, the New America Foundation (“New America”) attempts to compare the prices of “triple play” offerings of video, phone, and Internet services across...
View ArticleSpectrum Exhaust and the Monopolization Narrative…
In a recent speech, outgoing FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski once again reiterated the critical importance of spectrum policy “breakthroughs” to address the “tremendous stress” on the capacity of the...
View ArticleA Fresh Analytical Start at the FCC…
The Federal Communications Commission is at a crossroads. Burdened with implementing laws designed for a market structure of a bygone era—and with little prospect of a comprehensive legislative...
View ArticleA Response to the WaPo’s Timothy Lee: Why Comcast is NOT Acting Like a...
In a recent article, Washington Post technology reporter Timothy Lee suggested that “broadband speeds were stagnating in the United States”, resulting in “slow innovation and poor customer service.”...
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New America Foundation Misinterprets International Data (Round Three)…
Aujourd’hui ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d’être dit, on le chante. This line, from Le Barbier de Séville, is translated as, “Nowadays what isn’t worth saying is sung.” International comparisons of...
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Price, Profit, and Efficiency: Mark Cooper’s Bungled Analysis
Last month, I was generously invited to join a panel put together by the New America Foundation (“NAF”) at a Capitol Hill event entitled Spectrum Auctions: Promoting More Mobile Market Competition . ....
View Article2013 Year in Review…
In 2013, there was certainly no shortage of complex issues raised in the policy debate. Some issues were relatively new (e.g., getting the IP Transition underway), some issues were those with which...
View ArticleIn Response to Mark Cooper…
Last December, I authored a blog entitled Price, Profit, and Efficiency: Mark Cooper’s Bungled Analysis. Using basic economics, my blog describes in detail why a report authored by Mark Cooper from...
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Should the Government Allow Further Consolidation in the U.S. Mobile Market?
Late last year I had the pleasure of participating in an event on Spectrum Auctions put together by the New America Foundation. I’ve blogged about the event before, but when it was recently reported...
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2014 Year in Review…
2014 provided fertile soil for those interested in policy research. So with New Years rapidly approaching, I want to uphold tradition and use our last blog post of the year to highlight what we at the...
View ArticleSecond Circuit Debunks FCC’s Set-Top Box Arguments
Last February, the FCC launched yet another attempt to excise itself from (in the immortal words of former FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell) the “Valley of Unattained Goals” of Section 629. To justify...
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