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Sunday, August 26, 2007

Tribe: Net Neutrality Violates First Amendment

Adam gives the long-version of Professor Tribe's Aspen Summit talk. I'll give the headline version: Professor Tribe opined that net neutrality regulation would violate the First Amendment rights' of broadband providers.

This would, of course, be as ho-hum argument if made by someone of the pro-market, property rights-loving right. But the fact that the champion of liberal-left constitutionalism -- such as it is -- would hazard such an opinion is noteworthy.

Continue reading Tribe: Net Neutrality Violates First Amendment . . .

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:31 PM | Broadband, Communications, Free Speech, Net Neutrality

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Friday, April 13, 2007

Tales of Free Wi-Fi

Sitting here in the convenient but glumly industrial Kansas City International Airport that trumpets its free wi-fi connections on billboards both in- and outside the terminal. One problem with the fabulous free wi-fi. In my first 10 minutes of trying to log on, I get this message: "There are too many users logged on. Please try again later." Tragedy of the commons, anyone? Why not make all of us business travelers pay to ration and signal for sufficient capacity?

posted by Ray Gifford @ 5:14 PM | Broadband

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Friday, March 2, 2007

Time Bandits

Daylight savings time begins early this year, setting off a mini-tech panic as IT-administrators across corporate America sweat out whether patches and other fixes will accomodate the new time fiat. Based on research on electricity use from the 1970's, Congress expects the time-shift to save an equivalent of 100,000 barrels of oil per day. Assuming counter-factually that electricity use patterns are the same as they were in the 1970's, that amounts to a $6,000,000 per day energy savings based on a $60/barrel oil price. Times three weeks, that means there are expected savings of $126,000,000.

I wonder what the costs are to the IT industry, corporate networks and individuals in adapting to the new time? Given the direct costs, opportunity costs and the like, not to mention the costs of IT-failures based on the new rule, I would not be surprised if they offset the purported savings.

To make it worse, here is a paper from the California Energy Commission that questions whether there will be any meaningful energy savings, especially since the time-move occurs in March and November when peak electricity demand almost never occurs. If this is correct, then the cost benefit becomes even more dubious.

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:09 PM | Economics, Electricity, Software

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Tuesday, January 2, 2007

And now for some electric/tech policy convergence

It is not too much a stretch to bring this whole "convergence" meme to include electricity regulation as well. The digital economy is based on electrons -- cheap, plentiful, reliable electrons, and lots of them. I discuss the need for them in the home state here. In part, this is meant to be a corrective that to the "renewable energy is plentiful and cheap" notion; in larger part, it is meant to be a call "smarten" the grid through IT to trigger more robust market responses to price.

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:14 PM | Electricity, Internet

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Thursday, December 21, 2006

Ongoing T/BLS recriminations

The FCC's endemic dysfunctionality and lawlessness is on full display with the AT&T/BellSouth merger. The daily soap opera reached an interim crescendo last week with Commissioner McDowell's decision to recuse himself from the proceeding. Given we are now at the two minute warning, or halftime, or early in the first quarter of the proceeding, here is some color commentary.
It is premature to ask, "Who lost T/BLS?," as the proceeding will undoubtedly end up in approval, just with a much higher shakedown price. Instead, let's ask: "who is to blame for this circus?"
There is plenty of blame to go around, in order:
1. The Law FCC Commissioner Furchtgott-Roth many times bore witness to the dubious and lawless FCC merger review process. Quite rightly, Furchtgott-Roth questioned the capriciousness of merger reviews that were generally pro forma, but opportunisitically turned into shakedowns with wish lists of non-germane goodies added. The T/BLS merger has turned into the ultimate shakedown at this point, and the capacious legal standard (and non-reviewability) makes it possible.

Continue reading Ongoing T/BLS recriminations . . .

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:45 PM | Communications, Net Neutrality, The FCC

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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Momentum for the FTC?

I hate to get ahead of myself with irrational exuberance, but my primary takeaway from the Aspen Summit is that there is a possible consensus that the FTC might be the appropriate institution for addressing the net neutrality issue, and broadband competition policy more generally. FTC Chairman Majoras highlighted the conference by announcing the Internet Access task force. Dick Notebaert echoed Chairman Majoras's call for the FTC to take a leadership role in the broadband market. Even my friends at Google appear inclined to consider an FTC-centric role for the net neutrality issue.
To the extent that the Summit helped forward the FTC as the rule of law regulator for the broadband marketplace, and forward the DACA approach toward regulation of the communications marketplace, I would rather audaciously submit it was a success.

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:41 AM | Antitrust & Competition Policy, Net Neutrality, The FCC, The FTC

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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Let the FTC Do It

FTC Chairman Majoras's announcement of an Internet Access task force is a welcome turn toward rule of law and rigor being brought to the communications sector. Chairman Majoras's full speech can be found here, and it sounds welcome cautionary notes about rushing headlong into Internet regulation.
Letting the FTC do it would be a signal accomplishment toward treating the issue of net neutrality and other competition policy issues surrounding broadband in a principled, economic analysis-driven manner. If only the parties to the net neutrality struggle would lay down their lobbying budgets and ad campaigns, and embrace the FTC as the proper institutional regulator. Fat chance.

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:21 AM | Net Neutrality, The FCC

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Monday, August 21, 2006

Commissioner Adelstein Gets It -- Or Almost All of It

The Aspen Summit kicked off last night with an address by FCC Commissioner Adelstein, who got 3 out of 4 issues right in his quite engaging speech. I say that teasingly, because the Commissioner's speech once again reaffirmed that digital issues do not necessarily break down along neat Democratic/Republican political lines. Commissioner Adelstein addressed four topics, urging less regulation on three. On multicast must-carry, cable a la carte mandates and indecency regulation, the Commissioner urged caution, restraint and reliance on markets rather than regulation. Despite these laudable positions, the Commissioner remains steadfast in his defense of media ownership regulation. Nonetheless, not a bad opening batting average where he and PFF fellows agree on 3 of 4 major FCC issues.

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:04 AM | Commons, Communications, Economics, Events, Innovation, Internet Governance, Think Tanks

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Friday, August 18, 2006

Reverse Auctions--A Worthy Idea

Tom Lenard and I are very excited that the FCC has begun and inquiry into reverse auctions as a means to distribute universal service. Though it is very far from being realized, just asking the question is a bold step in the face of the political economy realities of the universal service system. In addition, the questions of auction design and rules are very delicate and subtle. Despite all the political and practical hurdles, this is a worthy discussion to be having as we ponder how to get rural America high quality, low cost, advanced communications systems.

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:46 AM | The FCC, Universal Service

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Into the Sunset?

Well, it isn't exactly a heroic ride off into the sunset with the background of the Monument Valley (yes, I've watched John Ford westerns far too many times), but next week marks the end of my tenure as President of PFF.
I am humbled by the well wishes from those with whom I often disagree, Professor Lessig and Jeff Pulver. Even more, I owe thanks to the many colleagues and friends I have made these past years. DC is a place where cynicism can easily thrive, but there are also many thoughtful, principled folks who are struggling for the right answers within the often disspiriting insititutional situation.
I do think we did some things of real value while I was at PFF -- the Digital Age Communications Act, the Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics, the founding of the Center for Digital Media Freedom and the blossoming of IPCentral.info, to name just a few. These programs, and the dedicated folks who make them possible at PFF, will continue to thrive and grow. The cynics' eyes will roll, but I have been privileged to work with wonderful colleagues whose devotion to human liberty is complete and unfailing. Though there are practical imperatives for any institution, the think tank world is really a place for dippy idealists who believe that ideas matter.
With this reverie going on way too long, I think I'll go watch the Searchers again.
I am not going far -- just to the less managerially taxing role of Senior Adjunct Fellow. In the meantime, look me up in my new gig here, where we'll try and change the face of regulatory, competition and IP law from the inside out (cynical snickers welcome here).

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:17 AM | Think Tanks

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Wednesday, August 2, 2006

Signs you're in San Francisco

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:24 AM | Broadband

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Friday, July 14, 2006

Ed Felten on Net Neutrality

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:46 PM | Net Neutrality

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Louisiana -- Please Don't Invest Here!

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:23 PM | Cable

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Friday, July 7, 2006

Maryland Electricity Update

posted by Ray Gifford @ 2:18 AM | Electricity, State Policy

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Coase, Property Rights, Regulation and Rentseeking

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:36 AM | Cable, Digital TV, Economics, IP, Innovation, Mass Media, Net Neutrality

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Monday, June 26, 2006

A Damnable Shame in Maryland

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:01 PM | Electricity, State Policy

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Friday, June 16, 2006

Net Neutrality for Sports -- Forced unbundling by any other name

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:36 AM | A La Carte, Broadband, Cable, Net Neutrality

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Friday, June 9, 2006

Coping with COPE

posted by Ray Gifford @ 2:09 AM | Cable, Capitol Hill, Communications, Net Neutrality, State Policy, The FCC

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VoIP gets regulated up

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:54 AM | Net Neutrality, VoIP

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Net Neutrality--How Competition Policy Handles It

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:49 AM | Antitrust & Competition Policy, Broadband, Capitol Hill, DACA, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, The FCC

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006

We have officially entered bizarro-world

posted by Ray Gifford @ 9:56 PM | Net Neutrality

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Thursday, June 1, 2006

A Natural End to Net Neutrality: Why Only the Lawyers Win

posted by Ray Gifford @ 6:53 PM | Net Neutrality

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Friday, May 26, 2006

Sensenbrenner Bill and Antitrust

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:04 PM | Antitrust & Competition Policy, Internet, Net Neutrality, Sports

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Friday, May 19, 2006

Un-Neutral Neutrality--Postmodern Conundrums

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:44 AM | Net Neutrality

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Friday, May 5, 2006

Thierer the Burkean Conservative?

posted by Ray Gifford @ 7:25 PM | Communications, Generic Rant, The FCC

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

A Diversion into Oil

posted by Ray Gifford @ 2:12 PM | Antitrust & Competition Policy

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

A Market to Keep the Net Neutral

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:08 AM | Net Neutrality

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Friday, March 31, 2006

Net Neutrality: The Small Consumers' Burden

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:50 AM | Net Neutrality

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Thursday, March 30, 2006

Weak Reductionism from Common Cause

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:01 AM | Think Tanks

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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Blogging Drought

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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

A Technologist's Take on "Net Neutrality"

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:35 PM | Net Neutrality

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Thursday, March 9, 2006

Why Did Jimmy Carter Care About Deregulation?

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:24 PM | Communications

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Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Net Neutrality and the editorialists

posted by Ray Gifford @ 7:55 AM | Net Neutrality

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Friday, February 17, 2006

Baseball's Closed Platform Play

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:36 PM | Internet

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Friday, February 3, 2006

Net Neutrality and Kelo

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:21 AM | Net Neutrality

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Wednesday, February 1, 2006

Tales in Government Broadband Investing...

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:33 PM | Municipal Ownership

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Saturday, January 21, 2006

The Economist on King Content

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:26 PM | A La Carte, Broadband, IP

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Globalization, for what it's worth

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:13 PM | Digital Europe 2006, Digital Europe 2006

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Friday, January 20, 2006

Market-Driven a la carte

posted by Ray Gifford @ 6:21 AM | A La Carte

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A La Carte Rentseeking--Where Does It End?

posted by Ray Gifford @ 6:05 AM | A La Carte, Cable

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Europe as a caricature of itself

posted by Ray Gifford @ 5:51 AM | Digital Europe 2006

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Hysteria is the sincerest form of flattery...

posted by Ray Gifford @ 5:30 AM | DACA

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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Virtualization of Inventions

posted by Ray Gifford @ 5:44 AM | Digital Europe 2006

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How the Czechs are different from us

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:01 AM | Digital Europe 2006

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Prague Winter

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:41 AM | Digital Europe 2006

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Thursday, January 5, 2006

A Meditation on Modularity and Integration

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:57 AM | Broadband, Innovation, Internet, Interoperability, Software

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Friday, December 16, 2005

The New Unbundling: Net Neutrality

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:11 AM | Net Neutrality

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Franchising Detente--Get to the Real Issues

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:00 AM | Cable

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Monday, December 12, 2005

Top Ten Family Friendly Tier Shows

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:54 PM | Cable

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Thursday, November 17, 2005

BITS and Trinko: A Question

posted by Ray Gifford @ 7:00 PM | Antitrust & Competition Policy

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WSIS and ICANN -- An Uneasy Accommodation

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:59 AM | Internet Governance

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005

WSIS Begins--Uh oh

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:12 PM | Internet Governance

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Wednesday, November 9, 2005

Lessig-DeLong Smackdown Fizzles

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:19 PM | IP

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005

Emily Litella Regulation: FCC tells VoIP to Never Mind

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:44 PM | VoIP

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Saturday, November 5, 2005

Medals of Freedom to Cerf and Kahn

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:11 AM | Internet

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005

Another test drive for net neutrality?

posted by Ray Gifford @ 6:10 PM | Cable, The FCC

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Monday, October 31, 2005

Capitulatory Regulation: Half-Baked Regulatory Ideas Have Their Heyday

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:42 PM | The FCC

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Friday, October 28, 2005

Interconnection without Regulation

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:46 PM | Internet

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Franchising--It's about the taxes

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:42 AM | Cable, Communications, Universal Service, Wireline

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Kennedy (Susan, not Ted) on VoIP and Net Neutrality

posted by Ray Gifford @ 5:48 PM | VoIP

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Friday, October 21, 2005

VoIP Blocking: Clearwire Continued

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:10 AM | VoIP

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Thursday, October 20, 2005

Merger Extortions in California

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:07 PM | Wireline

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Thursday, October 13, 2005

Interconnection without Regulation

posted by Ray Gifford @ 2:37 PM | Interoperability

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Monday, September 12, 2005

The Political Economy of VoIP

posted by Ray Gifford @ 6:12 PM | VoIP

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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Reflections on Aspen: Day 1

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:51 PM | General

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Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Let's Make Other People Pay for What I Want

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:48 AM | Municipal Ownership

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Tuesday, August 9, 2005

Interconnection

posted by Ray Gifford @ 2:18 AM | Antitrust & Competition Policy, Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, The FCC, Wireline

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Monday, August 8, 2005

Chairman Martin and Net Neutrality

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:35 AM | Broadband

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Friday, August 5, 2005

Kovacic and Swindle Exactly Right for The FTC

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:19 PM | Sports, The FTC

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Bravo on Broadband

posted by Ray Gifford @ 2:15 PM | Broadband

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Wednesday, August 3, 2005

The Promise and Peril of the FCC's DSL Action

posted by Ray Gifford @ 6:12 PM | Broadband

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Friday, July 29, 2005

Stupid FCC VoIP E911 Mandate--Part 2

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:13 AM | VoIP

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Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Standards and Pedals: Schumpeter on the Crank

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:33 PM | Interoperability

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Qwest Looking to Spackler?

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:21 PM | Wireline

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Monday, July 25, 2005

Cold Water on Chances for Telecom Reform

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:09 AM | Capitol Hill

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Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Stupid FCC VoIP E911 Mandate

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:52 PM | VoIP

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On blogging...a thumbsucker

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:12 PM | Internet

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Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Duopoly Watch

posted by Ray Gifford @ 2:15 PM | Broadband

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Taylor and Van Doren on the Energy Bill

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:47 AM | Electricity

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Monday, July 11, 2005

BPL Will Make Electric Markets More Efficient

posted by Ray Gifford @ 7:47 AM | Electricity

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Vote Before Cities Build Networks

posted by Ray Gifford @ 7:24 AM | Municipal Ownership

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Thursday, July 7, 2005

Chairman Martin on Broadband

posted by Ray Gifford @ 9:02 AM | Broadband

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Thursday, June 30, 2005

Signs of a Not So Cozy Duopoly

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:54 AM | Broadband, Digital TV, Spectrum

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Monday, June 27, 2005

Brand X: The Ad Law Consequences

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:05 AM | Communications

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Friday, June 24, 2005

The Politics of Kelo

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:45 AM | State Policy

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Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Orlando pulls the plug on free muni Wi-Fi

posted by Ray Gifford @ 2:10 PM | Municipal Ownership

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Dixon Fails at Self-Promotion

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:35 AM | Broadband

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Tuesday, June 21, 2005

In Re: DACA

posted by Ray Gifford @ 9:49 PM | Communications

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Monday, June 20, 2005

DTV and Universal Service

posted by Ray Gifford @ 8:37 PM | Capitol Hill, Digital TV, Spectrum, Universal Service

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Honor Among Phishers

posted by Ray Gifford @ 8:31 PM | Internet

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The Origins of DACA

posted by Ray Gifford @ 8:22 PM | Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, The FCC

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Friday, June 17, 2005

DACA Report Released

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:02 AM | Communications

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Thursday, June 9, 2005

The Costs of Regulation to Ratepayers

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:34 PM | Electricity

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Tuesday, June 7, 2005

McSlarrow gets it...

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:22 PM | Cable

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Friday, June 3, 2005

Sun Acquires Storage Tek

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:56 AM | Innovation

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Problems with the consumer-left

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:29 AM | State Policy

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SBC Lowers Prices--Consumer Advocates Be Ready To Shriek!

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:18 AM | Broadband

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Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Texas Tussle: Consumers Lose

posted by Ray Gifford @ 2:16 AM | Broadband, Cable, State Policy

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Friday, May 27, 2005

The Competition and Industrial Policy Paradox

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:26 PM | The FCC

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Thursday, May 26, 2005

E911 and VoIP

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:41 PM | VoIP

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Forbes: Raising VoIP's Costs

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:28 PM | VoIP

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Monday, May 23, 2005

Ugh!

posted by Ray Gifford @ 7:20 PM | Communications, Wireless, Wireline

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Thursday, May 12, 2005

DTV USF

posted by Ray Gifford @ 9:10 AM | Digital TV, Spectrum

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Sunday, May 8, 2005

The Art of the DTV Deal: Continued

posted by Ray Gifford @ 5:15 PM | Broadband, Capitol Hill, Digital TV, Spectrum, The FCC, Wireless

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Candy Innovation

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:04 AM | Innovation

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Friday, May 6, 2005

What's Left of Title I After the Broadcast Flag Case?

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:15 PM | Broadband, Cable, Digital TV, IP, The FCC

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Footnotes We Edited Out, or a Convoluted Solution to Redlining

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:05 AM | Broadband, Cable, Wireline

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Thursday, May 5, 2005

Public Power Gets Testy

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:24 AM | Municipal Ownership

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Wednesday, April 27, 2005

DTV: The Art of the Deal

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:57 PM | Digital TV, Wireless

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Thursday, April 14, 2005

Murdoch: Embrace the Web

posted by Ray Gifford @ 8:39 PM | Mass Media

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Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Robert George Blog -- Let the Pop Culture References Flow

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:57 PM | General

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Reasons to Be Pessimistic about Universal Service Reform

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:21 PM | Universal Service

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Tuesday, April 12, 2005

AG's Gone Wild! A Gathering Storm for Vonage?

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:57 PM | VoIP

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Wi-Fi Isn't Free

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:13 PM | Economics, Municipal Ownership

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VoIP Blocking: The Case of Clearwire

posted by Ray Gifford @ 2:53 PM | Net Neutrality, VoIP

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Friday, April 8, 2005

C-Span and Indecency

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:18 AM | Free Speech

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E-Rate Fraud? I am shocked, shocked...

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:58 AM | Universal Service

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Tuesday, April 5, 2005

Baseball Optimism

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:09 PM | Sports

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Monday, April 4, 2005

JPII on Communication

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:11 PM | Communications

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DeLong on Democracy

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:08 PM | General

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Saturday, April 2, 2005

VoIP Tax Freedom Killed in Colorado

posted by Ray Gifford @ 6:46 PM | VoIP

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Friday, April 1, 2005

Jeff Pulver Urges Regulation by Shakedown

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:25 PM | Antitrust & Competition Policy

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Thursday, March 31, 2005

Taxation by Regulation: No Escape

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:12 PM | Universal Service, VoIP

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Friday, March 25, 2005

Great Hazlett Article on Microsoft and Antitrust

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:52 PM | Antitrust & Competition Policy

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Social Security, Moral Right and Experimental Economics

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:17 PM | Economics, Universal Service

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005

After the Level 3 Petition

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:19 PM | Communications, The FCC, VoIP, Wireline

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Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Welch to Step Down

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:48 PM | State Policy

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Nanny State in Texas--Hard Cases and Bad Law

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:04 PM | VoIP

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Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Telecom Reform in Illinois

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:39 PM | State Policy, Wireline

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Open and Closed Platforms -- For Coffee

posted by Ray Gifford @ 9:40 PM | Interoperability

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Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Tivo, Comcast, Modularity and Producer Surplus

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:19 PM | Net Neutrality

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Ebbers's Guilt

posted by Ray Gifford @ 2:33 PM | Wireline

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Monday, March 14, 2005

Unpublished Letter to USA Today

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:10 PM | Antitrust & Competition Policy

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Wednesday, March 9, 2005

The Thing-In-Itself: Kant on VoIP

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:56 AM | VoIP

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Friday, March 4, 2005

DACA Co-Chairs Testify

posted by Ray Gifford @ 7:05 PM | Capitol Hill

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Crandall on Mergers

posted by Ray Gifford @ 7:02 PM | Antitrust & Competition Policy

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D-Day for Level 3 Forbearance on VoIP

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:30 PM | VoIP

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Friday, February 18, 2005

The incomparable Fred Kahn...

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:01 PM | Economics

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Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Europe's Vital Conservatives

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:25 AM | Digital Europe

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Openness, Closedness, Property and Standards

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:10 AM | Digital Europe

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Tuesday, February 8, 2005

Concert tickets: there otta' be an auction

posted by Ray Gifford @ 2:23 PM | Economics

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Thursday, February 3, 2005

And now for a commercial announcement...

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:01 PM | Communications

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Tuesday, February 1, 2005

Which is bigger?

posted by Ray Gifford @ 7:17 PM | Communications, Wireless

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Digital Age Communications Act

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:31 PM | Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, The FCC, Wireless

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Monday, January 31, 2005

The Merger: Room for Coase-ian Optimism on Intercarrier Comp?

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:02 AM | Communications

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SBCT&T

posted by Ray Gifford @ 9:38 AM | Antitrust & Competition Policy

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Friday, January 28, 2005

Telephone Competition Must Be Real

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:10 PM | Communications

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SBC to Swallow AT&T?

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:32 AM | Communications

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Monday, January 24, 2005

On the next Chairman...find the next Fred Kahn

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:25 AM | The FCC

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Lynne takes on Sunstein and NPR ... All During Breakfast!

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:22 AM | Innovation

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Sunday, January 23, 2005

Google...

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:08 PM | Communications, VoIP

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Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Sports Modularity

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:02 AM | Software

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Friday, January 14, 2005

Your FCC at Work

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:25 AM | The FCC

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Thursday, January 13, 2005

Municipal Broadband, Public Goods and Public Choice

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:30 AM | Broadband, Municipal Ownership, State Policy

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Sunday, January 9, 2005

Does "Finders Keepers" Help the Catchers?

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:47 PM | Sports

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Lucky Jack Aubrey and an ecumenism aboard ship

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:02 PM | General

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Thursday, January 6, 2005

All this talk about capital...

posted by Ray Gifford @ 5:51 PM | General

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Laissez le fiber roulez

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:57 PM | Broadband, Municipal Ownership

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Wednesday, January 5, 2005

Telecom Romance

posted by Ray Gifford @ 2:47 PM | Communications, Events

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Tuesday, January 4, 2005

Manifest Injustice

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:56 PM | Sports

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Monday, January 3, 2005

Back Scratching

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:45 PM | IP

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Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Ho, ho, ho...hum

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:17 AM | The FCC

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Friday, December 10, 2004

Phishing update

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:11 PM | E-commerce, Privacy

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Thursday, December 9, 2004

Sprint & Nextel...

posted by Ray Gifford @ 5:49 PM | Wireless

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Stuart Buck -- A Search Engine for Economic Analysis of Digital Markets

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:30 PM | Economics

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Schumpeter back to Europe

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:29 PM | Antitrust & Competition Policy

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Friday, December 3, 2004

Free Speech, Inquiry and Association

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:40 AM | State Policy

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Monday, November 29, 2004

No Preemption for Broadband over Powerline

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:42 PM | Broadband, Electricity

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Tuesday, November 23, 2004

Indecent horses with prostitutes, or is it vice-versa?

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:59 PM | Free Speech

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Privacy: Tu Quoque

posted by Ray Gifford @ 7:43 PM | Privacy

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Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Price Discrimination: You Gotta Better Idea?

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:13 AM | General

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Tuesday, November 9, 2004

VoIP State Freedom Day

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:49 AM | The FCC, VoIP

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Thursday, October 21, 2004

How to Avoid Long Distance Charges

posted by Ray Gifford @ 9:38 AM | VoIP

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Saturday, October 16, 2004

A Contract -- A Real Live Contract

posted by Ray Gifford @ 5:46 PM | VoIP

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"Spectrum"

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:58 PM | The FCC

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FCC Reform Blogsplosion III: Personnel is Policy

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:49 PM | The FCC

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FCC Reform Blogsplosion II: A Question I Didn't Get to Ask Susan Ness

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:38 PM | The FCC

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FCC Reform Blogsplosion I: History Repeats Itself?

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:34 PM | The FCC

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Thursday, October 14, 2004

James Crowe Speech

posted by Ray Gifford @ 5:35 PM | General

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Ownership, Investment and the FCC

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:54 PM | General

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Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Video Game Price War

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:13 AM | General

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Wednesday, October 6, 2004

Lurid Jokes about Satellite of Love now Appropriate

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:24 PM | General

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Tuesday, October 5, 2004

Business Week Gloomy on Telecom

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:49 PM | General

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Friday, October 1, 2004

VoIP Price War

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:12 AM | General

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Thursday, September 30, 2004

Rewriting the Telecom Act from KMB Videojournal

posted by Ray Gifford @ 8:37 AM | General

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Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Enabling Legal Change -- DeLong on Posner

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:24 AM | General

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Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Voices In The Howling Wind

posted by Ray Gifford @ 9:33 AM | General

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Thursday, September 23, 2004

To the Heartland

posted by Ray Gifford @ 8:08 AM | General

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Wednesday, September 22, 2004

I have seen the light -- why Randy is wrong

posted by Ray Gifford @ 7:10 PM | General

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You just can't make this stuff up

posted by Ray Gifford @ 7:03 PM | General

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Friday, September 17, 2004

The Sinister Practice of Bundling

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:31 AM | General

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Thursday, September 16, 2004

Adventures in Hot Cuts

posted by Ray Gifford @ 9:34 AM | General

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Monday, September 13, 2004

Mediate Don't Arbitrate--One Cheer for Regulatory Uncertainty

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:35 PM | General

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The Tyranny of Perfect Competition

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:46 PM | General

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Re-discover your belief in limited government

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:42 PM | General

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John Stanton on the Wireless Market

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:29 PM | General

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Friday, September 10, 2004

Epstein/Barr on Takings

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:52 AM | General

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Friday, September 3, 2004

FERUP Summit

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:41 PM | General

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Thursday, September 2, 2004

Competition and Universal Service

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:47 PM | General

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Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Fishblogging: Colorado Secretary of Technology

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:49 AM | General

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Monday, August 30, 2004

Appeals to Stop Internet Regulation

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:21 PM | General

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Predation: Some Comments

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:04 PM | General

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Thursday, August 26, 2004

Regulatory Freedom of Speech -- And Commerce

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:19 PM | General

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The Aspen Summit Webcast

posted by Ray Gifford @ 2:05 AM | General

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Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Jeff Pulver's Worries

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:53 PM | General

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Monday, August 23, 2004

Aspen Summit Day 1

posted by Ray Gifford @ 7:47 PM | General

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Friday, August 20, 2004

MCI Comes Around on Retail Deregulation

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:32 AM | General

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Thursday, August 19, 2004

ICF: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:00 AM | General

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Wednesday, August 18, 2004

May to Reform ABA

posted by Ray Gifford @ 2:56 PM | General

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techliberation

posted by Ray Gifford @ 8:53 AM | General

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Monday, August 16, 2004

Regulators can't set rates

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:25 PM | General

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Interoperability Issues

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:30 AM | General

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Wednesday, August 11, 2004

The Menace of State Attorneys General

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:08 AM | General

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Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Take Back Your Seats, Part II

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:55 PM | General

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Monday, August 9, 2004

Aspen Summit

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:46 PM | General

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Pricing Pills and Software

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:36 PM | General

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Tuesday, August 3, 2004

Hazlett on Unlicensed Spectrum

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:34 PM | General

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Monday, August 2, 2004

Wi-Max: The Next Big Thing?

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:58 PM | General

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Friday, July 30, 2004

Kiesling on Network Reliability as a Public Good

posted by Ray Gifford @ 7:21 PM | General

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Monday, July 26, 2004

VoIP and Numbering

posted by Ray Gifford @ 6:42 PM | General

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Saturday, July 24, 2004

The Week in VoIP

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:34 PM | General

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Thursday, July 22, 2004

Making the world safe for state taxes..

posted by Ray Gifford @ 5:07 PM | General

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A case of the vapours

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:30 PM | General

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Wednesday, July 21, 2004

Best News of the Summer

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:38 AM | General

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Regulation by Litigation--Grandstanding by AG's

posted by Ray Gifford @ 9:57 AM | General

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Free VoIP! New York Blocked

posted by Ray Gifford @ 9:44 AM | General

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Wednesday, July 14, 2004

Speaking of Aspen

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:16 AM | General

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Monday, July 5, 2004

Venti, Vidi, Vichy

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:12 AM | General

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Tuesday, June 29, 2004

HFR on Broadcast Ownership

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:39 PM | General

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Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Tech Political Sophistication

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:44 PM | General

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Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Speaking of a la carte

posted by Ray Gifford @ 2:07 AM | General

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Free Phones -- And Not a Regulator in Sight!

posted by Ray Gifford @ 2:03 AM | General

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Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Crocodile Tears for the TRO

posted by Ray Gifford @ 7:00 PM | General

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On NPR's On Point Tonight

posted by Ray Gifford @ 5:50 PM | General

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Friday, June 11, 2004

Ronald W. Reagan, RIP  --------

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:46 AM | General

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Thursday, June 10, 2004

TRO's Demise Good for Competition

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:41 PM | General

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Monday, June 7, 2004

Declan: Tear Down the FCC and Lime the Soil

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:13 PM | General

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Thursday, June 3, 2004

ALTS is Right

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:41 AM | General

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Friday, May 28, 2004

California Nannies Think Consumers Are Ninnies

posted by Ray Gifford @ 2:23 PM | General

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Comcast dives into VoIP

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:25 AM | General

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Challenging Qwest

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:34 PM | General

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Friday, May 21, 2004

Legislation to Overturn Trinko

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:49 PM | General

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Thursday, May 20, 2004

The IRLE and Inspiration

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:24 AM | General

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Saturday, May 15, 2004

Fishing Online

posted by Ray Gifford @ 2:11 AM | General

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NARUC Praises AT&T Proposal -- What Else Is New?

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:46 AM | General

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Tuesday, May 11, 2004

UNE-P is Everywhere

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:35 AM | General

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Smokin....

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:33 AM | General

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Wednesday, May 5, 2004

Commissioner Martin's Request

posted by Ray Gifford @ 5:28 PM | General

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The Chairman on the chill wind that blows for cable...

posted by Ray Gifford @ 9:25 AM | General

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Monday, May 3, 2004

NARUC Telecom E-mail Swipe

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:25 PM | General

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Predatory Pricing Bleg

posted by Ray Gifford @ 6:33 PM | General

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Friday, April 30, 2004

Negotiate, Not Litigate -- But File it for Approval

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:34 AM | General

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Thursday, April 29, 2004

Baseball and Disruptive Technology

posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:45 PM | General

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Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Words I never thought I'd say...

posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:02 PM | General

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Friday, April 23, 2004

CA PUC Brinkmanship -- Can the States Torpedo 'Negotiate not Litigate'?

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:29 PM | General

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Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Blogging from Buckeye

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:15 PM | General

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Monday, April 19, 2004

Inspiration to negotiate not litigate...

posted by Ray Gifford @ 5:22 PM | General

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Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Schumpeter in Yellow Pages Markets

posted by Ray Gifford @ 9:08 AM | General

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Monday, April 12, 2004

Fearless predictions about the upcoming Kerry broadband speech...

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:13 PM | General

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Utopia fading?

posted by Ray Gifford @ 12:54 PM | General

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Friday, April 9, 2004

Maybe Jimmy Carter can sit in and observe...or how about the U.N.?

posted by Ray Gifford @ 2:18 AM | General

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Skype going handheld...

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Thursday, April 8, 2004

On Electricity...

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Thursday, April 1, 2004

Hooray for regulation!

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The Dow it is a changin'...

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Wednesday, March 31, 2004

It's Not Yet April Fool's Day...

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Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Having your cake and eating it too...

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Prayers for Stuart Buck and Family

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Monday, March 29, 2004

Croquet anyone? Go SJC!

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Broadband Skepticism

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Solution to Coase's Wandering Buffalo

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Utah goes wobbly

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Thursday, March 25, 2004

Florida Goes Wobbly

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Wednesday, March 17, 2004

When Ad Hominem Is OK

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Monday, March 15, 2004

Universal Service in an Age of Skype

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ITunes at 50 Million and Counting

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Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Powell Offers a Compromise to States

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Tuesday, March 9, 2004

NARUC on Commissioner Copps

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Friday, March 5, 2004

Room for Cautious Optimism?

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Wednesday, March 3, 2004

We Interrupt TRO-Blog for some BPL Blogging...

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Monday, March 1, 2004

John Chambers of Cisco on Need for Broadband Policy

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Sunday, February 29, 2004

Coase's Bargains, Public Ownership and Roaming Bison

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Friday, February 27, 2004

For the children...

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Tuesday, February 24, 2004

The Senate Looks at VoIP

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Thursday, February 19, 2004

VoIP in the States

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Friday, February 13, 2004

Arnold Kling on the atavistic desire to regulate VoIP

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Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Net Neutrality, Private Ordering and FCC Jawboning

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Monday, February 9, 2004

A vastly inferior understudy

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The power is in the facial hair

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Friday, February 6, 2004

Blogging from Silicon Flatirons

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I'll be damned, markets work!

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Thursday, February 5, 2004

The Regulatory Right Jabberwocky

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Different approaches to regulatory practice

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Monday, February 2, 2004

Great Moments in Decency Regulation

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No Unbundled Packets in MA

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Monday, January 26, 2004

Cost of Capital in New Hampshire

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Friday, January 23, 2004

KQA on VoIP

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Steroids and No Digital Economy

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Saturday, January 17, 2004

In Praise of the Liberty Fund

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Tuesday, January 13, 2004

Relics: Buggy Makers and Songwriters

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Tuesday, January 6, 2004

Florida and Colorado Talk Sense on VoIP

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Friday, January 2, 2004

Regulatory Abnegation and the "Great Man" Theory of Regulators

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Factory Authorized

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Tuesday, December 30, 2003

Half-hearted defense of the Energy Bill

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Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Forbear!

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Naughty and Nice--Part I

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Wednesday, December 17, 2003

TELRIC

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John Windhausen Replies

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What he said...

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Against Open Net Ideology -- or any Net Ideology for that Matter

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Monday, December 15, 2003

When to Deregulate Retail Rates?

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Tuesday, December 9, 2003

Really, really, really, really bad ideas

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Acronym Enthusiasm, Part I: TELRIC

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Thursday, December 4, 2003

Review of Network Economics Article

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Exuent Omnes

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Tuesday, December 2, 2003

In Praise of TELRIC

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Why Regulate VoIP?

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Thursday, November 20, 2003

Dean and "Re-regulation"

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Tuesday, November 18, 2003

Arrow, Carlton and Solow Report

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Filling the VoIP Regulatory Vacuum

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Sunday, November 16, 2003

Welcome to the new PFF Website

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Friday, November 14, 2003

Michael Powell Speech to Federalist Society

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Welcome to PFF Blog!

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