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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Google / Verizon Proposal May Be Important Compromise, But Regulatory Trajectory Concerns Many

Recently, the Washington Post opined that the best way for the FCC to "regulate the Internet" was through a moderate approach, one which places limited authority in the Commission to address behavior that violates long-standing Net Neutrality practices.

The paper notes that Net Neutrality has been "a rule tacitly understood by Internet users and providers alike" for more than a decade. It then mildly rebukes the FCC's proposal to reclassify broadband providers as common carriers - "a move [which] would be a serious step backwards," in their view.

Within this context, the Post sees important compromise in the Google / Verizon legislative proposal, "especially its designation of the FCC as an adjudicatory body such as the Federal Trade Commission rather than one with intrusive regulatory authority."

Continue reading Google / Verizon Proposal May Be Important Compromise, But Regulatory Trajectory Concerns Many . . .

posted by Mike Wendy @ 9:04 AM | Capitol Hill, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, Regulation, The FCC

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

The Broadband Investment Leviathan

The August 5th issue of The Economist had a compelling cover story entitled "Leviathan, Inc." in which the author notes "[p]oliticians are reviving the notion that intervening in individual industries and companies can drive growth and create jobs." But direct, long-term government management of companies, corporations or, worst yet, entire industries has proven time and again not to be successful.

Simply put, the head of a company makes decisions to maximize the outcome for that company and its owners or shareholders. Any government employee—even one in a role as acting head of a private company—is legally required to make decisions under a far stricter set of guidelines. Guidelines which force the decisions to be made for what is best not for the business they are charged with operating, but for the country as a whole. This is the case even if the decision made by the bureaucrat will result in a 'net negative' to the company and its owners/shareholders.

The article's anonymous author suggests that instead of "pick[ing] winners and coddl[ing] losers," government should improve the environment for all business by reducing regulations, investing in infrastructure, and "encourage winners to emerge by themselves, for example through the sort of incentive prizes that are growing increasingly popular."

Continue reading The Broadband Investment Leviathan . . .

posted by Adam Marcus @ 2:03 PM | Broadband, Communications, Economics, Philosophy / Cyber-Libertarianism, The FCC

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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Pub Interest Groups Decry Sunlight - Say It's Corrupting FCC Net Neutrality Process


techdirt's hit kind of a new low in the divisive Net Neutrality debate. Mike Masnick writes that the telcos have got their Net Neutrality deal with the FCC because, well, they have some mighty deep pockets, and they're prepared to use them - either for-or-agin the Dems - come election season. Consequently, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski had no choice but to back down from his Net Neutrality / Reclassification madness and give the big boys what they want.

C'mon, Mike! You make the National Enquirer blush.

The "reporting" follows the well worn meme espoused by the Left that when the going gets tough, and the deal looks like it ain't cutting their way - then blame the "monopolists" for corrupting the process. Good lord, get a new riff already.

Free Press, Public Knowledge, MAP and OIC lobbyists (among other "reformistas") have practically installed themselves at the FCC since day one (I think I saw their cots, bedrolls and toiletries there the other day). To claim that they've been left-out strains credulity (as this FCC blog reveals).

Let's see. They've gotten their lobbying dollar's worth out of the Open Internet / Net Neutrality NPRM; the National Broadband Plan; the Wireless Competition Report; the Third Way Statement; the Third Way NOI; the 706 Report; and have supped at the FCC table throughout the "closed-door" Net Neutrality meetings.

Compromise will happen. It should. This is a highly charged debate that has divided many. The FCC hasn't helped any by trying to avoid the will of Congress, end-running around key court decisions, and attempting to jam an innovation-killing rule down the throats of American broadband consumers.

Though I think the Commission is wrong to try to regulate the Internet through broadband Reclassification, I also recognize that some discussion - possibly one that reaches compromise - should occur.

What I do not think is helpful is the idea, seemingly shared by the public interest groups, that "it's our way or no way; and if you get in the way of that - then you're a corrupt SOB."

Mike, remember the elementary school admonition - "sticks and stones..."? I'll bet the network providers do, and it's helped them keep their eye on the ball to ensure that a reasoned ruling comes out of the FCC.

The opposite would be corrupt - a closed process decided by a small handful of elite, "consumer advocates," impervious to reason, debate or the sunlight of opposing viewpoints. Until this summer, it looked like it was going in this direction. Now, thankfully, the process appears to be more inclusive - one which may result in a more fair outcome for all involved.

posted by Mike Wendy @ 8:12 AM | Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, Free Speech, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, Regulation, The FCC

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Monday, July 26, 2010

Harmony Institute & Free Press Seek to Create Net Neutrality Propaganda

Interesting article in the New York Times today about how the radical media activist group Free Press is now working with an organization called The Harmony Institute toward the goal of "Adding Punch to Influence Public Opinion." The way they want to "add punch" is through entertainment propaganda. The Times article notes that Harmony's mission is "aimed at getting filmmakers and others to use the insights and techniques of behavioral psychology in delivering social and political messages through their work." And now they want to use such "behavioral psychology" and "political messaging" (read: propaganda) techniques in pursuit of Net neutrality regulation.

More on that agenda in a second. First, I just have to note the irony of Harmony's founder John S. Johnson citing "The Day After Tomorrow" as a model for the sort of thing he wants to accomplish. According to the Times interview with him, he says the movie's "global warming message [and] rip-roaring story, appeared to alter attitudes among young and undereducated audiences who would never see a preachy documentary." I love this because "The Day After Tomorrow" was such a shameless piece of globe warming doomsday propaganda that it must have even made the people at Greenpeace blush in embarrassment. After all, here is a movie that claims global warming will result in an instantaneous global freeze (how's that work again?) and leave kids scurrying for the safety of New York City libraries until a quick thaw comes a couple of weeks later. (Seriously, have you seen that movie? That's the plot!) So apparently we can expect some pretty sensational, fear-mongering info-tainment from Harmony and Free Press.

But here's what's better: Do you know who produced "The Day After Tomorrow"? Oh, that's right... Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation financed and distributed that movie!! The man that Free Press casts as the nefarious media overlord set to take over all media and program our brains gave us the greatest piece of radical environmental propaganda of modern times. Now, which does that prove: (A) Rupert Murdoch is hell-bent on programming our minds to embrace a sweeping global warming regulatory agenda, or (B) Rupert Murdoch is out to entertain people and make money? If you answered B, congratulations for being a sensible person. If you answered A, then click here now to start giving money to the Free Press!

OK, so let's get back to Free Press and what they are up to with the Harmony Institute (which I originally thought was an online dating site). Free Press apparently hired Harmony to research public attitudes about Net neutrality and how to influence them. Harmony's Johnson tells the Times they got interested in the Net neutrality because Free Press and the Pacific Foundation paid them handsomely to do so. And it appears Free Press got their money's worth.

Continue reading Harmony Institute & Free Press Seek to Create Net Neutrality Propaganda . . .

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:23 AM | Broadband, Communications, Mass Media, Media Regulation, Net Neutrality

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Thursday, July 22, 2010

FCC & Free Press - Send Lawyers, Guns and Money to Regulate the Internet

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

So goes the FCC's stacked "706 Report" on broadband this week, which said that Americans aren't getting broadband in a "reasonable and timely basis," the first negative conclusion since the report's inception.

Using the standard developed in the National Broadband Plan (NBP) - which recommends "that every household in America have access to affordable broadband service offering actual download (i.e., to the customer) speeds of at least 4 Mbps and actual upload (i.e., from the customer) speeds of at least 1 Mbps" - the Commission determined that by this benchmark "broadband remains unavailable to approximately 14 to 24 million Americans." (Not that 14 - 24 million Americans don't have high-speed access, as has erroneously been reported.)

The FCC is building its war chest so that it can justify Lilliputian Internet regulation of network providers. Through a number of recent proceedings, statements and reports - e.g., the Open Internet NPRM, Cellular Competition Report, and "Third Way" NOI - the 706 Report traffics in the same meme: network providers just aren't doing their job, so they must be coerced or shamed into proper "compliance."

Not uncharacteristically, The Free Press heralded the new, rather dour (and now redundant) broadband assessment. Said the lugubrious, special interest lobbyists - "Now that the FCC has taken the first step of acknowledging America's broadband problem, we hope that it will advance policies to reverse this decline though the promotion of real competition and true consumer choice."

Continue reading FCC & Free Press - Send Lawyers, Guns and Money to Regulate the Internet . . .

posted by Mike Wendy @ 10:20 AM | Broadband, Capitalism, Capitol Hill, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, Regulation, Software, The FCC, Universal Service, Wireless, Wireline

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Friday, July 9, 2010

Keep the Internet Corporate-Free Says Anti-Business Free Press

I just have to chuckle at this sophomore opinion piece recently penned by the Free Press. Its main memes: Corporations are evil. Do not trust corporations, because they are evil. And, oh by the way, corporations want to control you and the FCC, because...they are evil.

Good golly, we get it.

Continue reading Keep the Internet Corporate-Free Says Anti-Business Free Press . . .

posted by Mike Wendy @ 8:52 AM | Broadband, Capitalism, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, Regulation, The FCC

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Camel Puts Nose under Tent with FCC "Wireless Model" for Internet Regulation

Julius Genachowski claims his "Third Way" approach to taking over the Internet looks a lot like the benign "wireless model" of regulation.

If it were true, that would be a good thing.

According to Genachowski:

In its approach to wireless communications, Congress mandated that the FCC subject wireless communications to the same Title II provisions generally applicable to telecommunications services while also directing that the FCC consider forbearing from the application of many of these provisions to the wireless marketplace. The Commission did significantly forbear, and the telecommunications industry has repeatedly and resoundingly lauded this approach as well-suited to an emerging technology and welcoming to investment and innovation. In short, the proposed approach is already tried and true.
Presumably, the "wireless model," if applied to the Internet, would spur growth and innovation. But I have a question. In the FCC's NOI, how does the wireless model of "light regulation" apply to, er, the wireless model?

I haven't quite figured out the circularity of that one yet.

Oh, well. Maybe I shouldn't waste my time trying. It seems more apparent than ever that for wireless and wireline broadband service it's not really about regulating "downward" - i.e., deregulating, as is the hallmark of the "wireless model" - but instead, regulating "upward," thus adding regulation.

Continue reading Camel Puts Nose under Tent with FCC "Wireless Model" for Internet Regulation . . .

posted by Mike Wendy @ 3:08 PM | Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, Regulation, Spectrum, The FCC, Wireless, Wireline

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Thursday, June 24, 2010

The FCC Gets Real Schlick

Said FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on May 6th, "The [Comcast] opinion therefore creates a serious problem that must be solved so that the Commission can implement important, commonsense broadband policies..."

I'll say. It's a problem, alright. Yet the chutzpah of the ensuing NOI process - in particular, the FCC asking whether its Net Neutrality workaround to reclassify the transmission element of broadband as a Title II service is worth doing / can be done - doesn't make it any better.

Continue reading The FCC Gets Real Schlick . . .

posted by Mike Wendy @ 3:03 PM | Antitrust & Competition Policy, Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, Internet, Net Neutrality, PFF, The FCC

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Thursday, June 17, 2010

FCC Seeks to Regulate the Internet...Because It Can

As I touched on last night, I can't say as I was surprised by today's announcement by the FCC to move toward full-blown Internet regulation. Voting along party lines, the three Democratic FCC Commissioners expressed their wholehearted belief that their regulation of the Internet - not de facto marketplace regulation - was the only way to protect consumers and Americans.

The Comcast v. FCC decision should have rebooted the Commission's discredited Net Neutrality ambitions. Yet instead, the FCC appears moving closer toward questionable new rules, using specious authority to get there. Such an exercise in regulatory hubris is truly confounding, especially in light of the facts and a clear consensus that the Internet must remain free from stultifying regulation.

Make no bones about it, the FCC's NOI today will work to regulate the Internet, and poorly at that. It takes a yellowed, dog-eared page from a 19th Century industrial policy playbook, and seeks to graft that on to the rapidly evolving Internet. Ultimately, it will prove offensive to American consumers, as well as those innovating at the core and edge of America's broadband networks.

Continue reading FCC Seeks to Regulate the Internet...Because It Can . . .

posted by Mike Wendy @ 4:54 PM | Broadband, Communications, DACA, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, PFF, The FCC

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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

No Such Thing As Regulatory Predictability When It's Built on an Illusion of Authority

Tomorrow at the FCC's open meeting, it is expected that the Commission will release an NOI that will seek to implement Chairman Genachowski's controversial "Third Way." Ostensibly, his plan will try to chart a reasonable balance to promote an open Internet, while at the same time keeping it free from regulation. To arrive there, the Commission will likely propose to shear away the underlying transmission component of broadband telecommunications services from ISP / information services, and impose only a "handful" (like a dash of salt, I guess) of common carrier regulations on the former to keep the Internet open for applications, services, content and devices (as if it is not now already).

We do not know what's in the NOI, nor the process toward a rule or ruling. That said, it probably doesn't matter. Call me skeptical, but you don't need to be a mind reader or have a well connected lobbyist to understand that the fix is in. Not letting the facts get in the way of the situation, the Internet, through this NOI, is going to be regulated.

Continue reading No Such Thing As Regulatory Predictability When It's Built on an Illusion of Authority . . .

posted by Mike Wendy @ 9:48 PM | Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, DACA, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, PFF, Regulation, The FCC, Wireline

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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

event transcript: "What Should the Next Communications Act Look Like?"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 6:44 PM | Antitrust & Competition Policy, Communications, DACA, The FCC

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Saturday, June 5, 2010

AT&T's New Wireless Pricing Plan - Does It Help in the Net Neutrality Debate?

posted by Mike Wendy @ 12:57 AM | Broadband, Capitalism, Capitol Hill, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, Regulation, The FCC, Wireline

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Friday, June 4, 2010

Chill Speech, Serve Cold

posted by Mike Wendy @ 10:19 AM | Communications, Free Speech, Mass Media, Media Regulation, State Policy, The FCC

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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Abolishing the FCC and Other Fun Thoughts

posted by Mike Wendy @ 2:11 PM | Antitrust & Competition Policy, Broadband, Cable, Communications, DACA, Innovation, Internet, Local Franchising, Mass Media, Media Regulation, Net Neutrality, PFF, Regulation, Spectrum, State Policy, The FCC, The FTC, Universal Service, Wireless

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Monday, May 24, 2010

Thoughts on Democratic Proposal to Update Communications Act

posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:34 PM | Communications, DACA, PFF, The FCC

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Thursday, May 20, 2010

FCC Wireless Report Punts - Effective Competition Actually Prevails

posted by Mike Wendy @ 10:25 PM | Antitrust & Competition Policy, Broadband, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, Spectrum, The FCC, Wireless

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

FCC Wireless Report Should Conclude Market Competitive, But Will It?

posted by Mike Wendy @ 3:58 PM | Broadband, Communications, Innovation, Net Neutrality, The FCC, Wireless, Wireline

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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Cord-Cutting Continues; 25% of Homes Now Wireless-Only

posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:14 PM | Communications

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Monday, May 10, 2010

event video: "What Should the Next Communications Act Look Like?"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:49 PM | Broadband, Communications, Net Neutrality, The FCC

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Thursday, May 6, 2010

NPR Interview on FCC's Third Way

posted by Mike Wendy @ 3:31 PM | Antitrust & Competition Policy, Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, Cyber-Security, DACA, Internet, Net Neutrality, Neutrality, Privacy, Security, The FCC

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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

event: May 7th - What Should the Next Communications Act Look Like?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:00 PM | Communications, DACA, Events, The FCC

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Monday, April 26, 2010

PFF LTE in NY Times - Let's Not Regulate the Internet

posted by Mike Wendy @ 1:00 PM | Broadband, Cable, Capitol Hill, Communications, Internet, Net Neutrality, PFF, Regulation, The FCC, Wireless, Wireline

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Friday, April 23, 2010

K Street Misinformation Pours into Gutter - FCC Must Know Limits of Its Magic

posted by Mike Wendy @ 2:28 PM | Antitrust & Competition Policy, Broadband, Cable, Capitol Hill, Communications, Internet, Net Neutrality, Regulation, The FCC

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Reclassification of Broadband Internet Access: No Slam Dunk

posted by Barbara Esbin @ 1:52 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications, Net Neutrality, Neutrality, The FCC, Wireline

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Friday, April 9, 2010

What Accounts for Sudden Public Opposition to Internet Regulation?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 6:16 PM | Broadband, Communications, Net Neutrality, The FCC

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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Did You Say You Wanted Another Editorial on the Comcast Decision?!

posted by Adam Thierer @ 5:48 PM | Broadband, Communications, Net Neutrality

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

The Nobles Must Follow the Law

posted by Barbara Esbin @ 4:16 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications, Net Neutrality, Neutrality, The FCC

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FCC Loses Comcast Case: End of Line for FCC's Creative Claims of Authority?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:26 AM | Communications, Net Neutrality

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Step Away from the IT

posted by Mike Wendy @ 3:03 PM | Capitol Hill, Communications, Copyright, Generic Rant, Human Capital, IP

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Sunday, March 28, 2010

Free Press & Public Knowledge Try to Invent Regulatory Crisis over Sprint Short Codes

posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:37 PM | Communications, Generic Rant, Wireless

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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Verizon's Tom Tauke Calls for Congressional Overhaul of Telecom Act; New Regime

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:58 AM | Broadband, Communications, The FCC

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

What's in a Word?

posted by Barbara Esbin @ 4:50 PM | Broadband, Communications, Net Neutrality, The FCC

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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Reflections on Richard Bennett's "Going Mobile: Technology and Policy Issues in the Mobile Internet"

posted by Barbara Esbin @ 2:19 PM | Broadband, Communications, Net Neutrality, Regulation, The FCC

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Monday, February 22, 2010

Running for the Hills: A View from Wall Street on Reclassification of Broadband Internet as Title II Service

posted by Barbara Esbin @ 8:42 PM | Broadband, Communications, The FCC

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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Glen Robinson, Communications Law Giant, Speaks at George Mason Law Thursday 2/18 @ 4 pm

posted by Berin Szoka @ 4:29 PM | Communications, Events, Free Speech, Mass Media, Philosophy / Cyber-Libertarianism

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Demystification of Net Neutrality

posted by Barbara Esbin @ 8:32 AM | Broadband, Communications, Net Neutrality, Neutrality, Regulation, The FCC

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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Groundhog Day 2010: Should the FCC Reclassify Broadband Internet Service?

posted by Barbara Esbin @ 9:29 PM | Broadband, Communications, Internet, Neutrality, Regulation, The FCC

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Friday, January 15, 2010

R.I.P. Ancillary Jurisdiction; Hello Common Carriage

posted by Barbara Esbin @ 12:44 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications, Internet, Net Neutrality, Neutrality, Regulation, The FCC, Wireline

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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Good Bye to Senator Dorgan and, I Hope, to the "Tale of the Minot Train Wreck"

posted by W. Kenneth Ferree @ 9:34 AM | Capitol Hill, Communications, Mass Media, Media Regulation

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Another Sign of the Changing Media Times

posted by W. Kenneth Ferree @ 2:10 PM | Communications, Mass Media

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Let's Make a Deal: Broadcasters, Mobile Broadband, and a Market in Spectrum

posted by Amy Smorodin @ 2:44 PM | Broadband, Communications, Mass Media, Spectrum, Wireless

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Is the FCC Becoming the Federal Cloud Commission?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:18 PM | Communications, Net Neutrality, The FCC

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Friday, November 6, 2009

A Quantum Gap in Jurisdiction

posted by Barbara Esbin @ 11:20 AM | Broadband, Communications, Net Neutrality, The FCC

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

"I Hate to Introduce Reality into an FCC Proceeding"

posted by Amy Smorodin @ 2:47 PM | Communications, Mass Media, Media Regulation, The FCC

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

"Internet Freedom": How Statists Corrupt Our Language

posted by Berin Szoka @ 10:32 AM | Broadband, Communications, Net Neutrality

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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Mixed Messages on Net Neutrality

posted by Amy Smorodin @ 3:48 PM | Communications, Internet, Net Neutrality, Regulation, The FCC

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Monday, September 14, 2009

The Fiction of Forced Access "Competition" Revisited

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:02 AM | Broadband, Communications, Net Neutrality

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Friday, September 11, 2009

Green Shoots at the FCC

posted by Barbara Esbin @ 11:01 AM | Communications, The FCC

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Monday, August 3, 2009

Where is FCC Authority to Regulate in Apple-Google Spat? What are the Costs?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:30 PM | Communications, Spectrum

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

iPhone Envy

posted by Barbara Esbin @ 3:15 PM | Capitol Hill, Communications, Wireless

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

The (Un)Free Press Calls for Internet Price Controls: "The Broadband Internet Fairness Act"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:15 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications, Economics, Net Neutrality

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

A Slam Dunk on Tiered Bandwidth Pricing

posted by Barbara Esbin @ 1:04 PM | Broadband, Communications

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Prioritize Broadband Stimulus Spending

posted by Barbara Esbin @ 3:48 PM | Broadband, Communications, Universal Service

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Monday, April 13, 2009

Defining a Problem in order to Dictate the Terms of Victory

posted by W. Kenneth Ferree @ 1:16 PM | Broadband, Communications

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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Sometimes Not Sharing Your Toys is the Right Approach

posted by Barbara Esbin @ 10:07 AM | Cable, Communications, Wireline

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Monday, March 2, 2009

This Just in from the "Kick a Man While He's Down" Commission

posted by W. Kenneth Ferree @ 11:11 AM | Communications, Mass Media, The FCC

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

And We Wonder Why We're In An Economic Crisis?

posted by W. Kenneth Ferree @ 12:03 PM | Communications, Digital TV

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Friday, February 6, 2009

A Tale of Two Reports

posted by Amy Smorodin @ 11:03 AM | Cable, Communications, Internet TV, The FCC

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Further Oddities in the "Broadband Stimulus" Bill

posted by W. Kenneth Ferree @ 11:03 AM | Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, Universal Service

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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Cutting the (Video) Cord: Boxee

posted by Berin Szoka @ 2:24 PM | Cable, Communications, Internet TV

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Friday, January 16, 2009

Cellular Socialism

posted by Berin Szoka @ 11:26 PM | Communications, Universal Service, Wireless

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Thursday, January 8, 2009

The Right Way to Allow Cell Phone Jammers - And the FCC's Way

posted by Berin Szoka @ 7:28 PM | Communications

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PFF Amicus Brief in Key First Amendment Case: Limits on Audience Size are Unconstitutional

posted by Berin Szoka @ 3:56 PM | Cable, Communications

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The Most Important Number for Technology Policy in 2009

posted by Berin Szoka @ 3:48 PM | Capitol Hill, Communications, E-commerce, Internet, The FCC

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Lessig on Building a Better Bureaucrat

posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:53 PM | Communications, Generic Rant, The FCC

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

More FCC Support Fund Follies

posted by Barbara Esbin @ 4:19 PM | Communications, The FCC

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Monday, November 3, 2008

Tech Policy Trick or Treat

posted by Barbara Esbin @ 8:43 AM | Communications, Events, Net Neutrality

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Friday, October 24, 2008

Of Hobgoblins and Kings

posted by Barbara Esbin @ 11:14 AM | Broadband, Communications, Spectrum, The FCC

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Surprise, Markets Work!

posted by W. Kenneth Ferree @ 2:08 PM | Broadband, Communications

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Tim Wu on Obama, McCain, and "a Chicken in Every Pot"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:20 PM | Broadband, Cable, Campaign Finance Law, Commons, Communications, Mass Media, Net Neutrality, The FCC

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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Of "Cartels" and Price Wars

posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:11 PM | Broadband, Communications

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Monday, August 4, 2008

Broadband access platforms & speeds over 3 decades

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:02 PM | Broadband, Communications, Innovation, Internet

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Not One, Not Two, but THREE Competing Open Source Mobile Operating Systems

posted by Berin Szoka @ 5:56 PM | Communications, Software, Wireless

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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Pay Me Now Or Pay Me Later

posted by W. Kenneth Ferree @ 2:28 PM | Communications, Wireless

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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Wireless Substitution: Some New CDC Numbers

posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:44 PM | Communications

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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Where is the FCC's Annual Video Competition Report?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:05 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications, Economics, The FCC

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Thursday, March 20, 2008

My Barbaric Yawp

posted by W. Kenneth Ferree @ 5:18 PM | Broadband, Communications

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Thursday, February 14, 2008

A Case Of “Be Careful What You Ask For”

posted by W. Kenneth Ferree @ 11:05 AM | Communications, Net Neutrality

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Winback Wars: The Politics of Customer Retention

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:52 PM | Cable, Communications

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Thursday, January 10, 2008

All-in and Unlucky

posted by Grant Eskelsen @ 4:14 PM | Communications, Spectrum, Wireless

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Friday, November 30, 2007

National Review on FCC's Cable War

posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:33 PM | Cable, Communications, Mass Media, The FCC

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Thursday, November 29, 2007

FCC Budget: Out of Control

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:32 AM | Cable, Communications, Mass Media, The FCC

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Setting the Record Straight on Current FCC Policies

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:37 AM | A La Carte, Cable, Communications, Mass Media, The FCC

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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Bruce Owen on "Antecedents to Net Neutrality"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:24 PM | Cable, Communications, Internet, Net Neutrality, The FCC

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

More on Metering Broadband

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:37 PM | Broadband, Communications, Economics, Internet

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Friday, September 7, 2007

Once Again, Why Not Meter Broadband Pipes?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:46 AM | Broadband, Communications

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Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Wi-Fi Piggybacking / Squatting Reconsidered

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:11 PM | Broadband, Communications, Innovation, Spectrum

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Deregulation that should have happened 10 years ago

posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:23 PM | Communications

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Sunday, August 26, 2007

Tribe: Net Neutrality Violates First Amendment

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

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Problems in Muni Wi-Fi Paradise, cont.

posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:26 PM | Commons, Communications, Municipal Ownership

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Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Problems in (muni wi-fi) paradise

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:57 AM | Commons, Communications, Municipal Ownership, Wireless

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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Comptel's regulatory scorecard: Good idea, poor execution

posted by Scott Wallsten @ 4:53 PM | Communications

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

The 700 MHz Auction--Uh Oh.

posted by Solveig Singleton @ 12:00 PM | Commons, Communications, Spectrum, Wireless

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Telecom privatization in Brazil--The way it should be

posted by Solveig Singleton @ 10:16 AM | Communications

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

FCC Opens the Net Neutrality Pandora's Box a Bit More

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:43 AM | Broadband, Communications, Net Neutrality

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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Good Slogans, Bad Policies: Open Access Regulations

posted by Scott Wallsten @ 10:55 AM | Broadband, Communications, Net Neutrality, Spectrum, Wireless, Wireline

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Friday, April 6, 2007

Frontline, Reed Hundt and Net Neutrality

posted by Jeff Eisenach @ 10:37 AM | Communications, Net Neutrality, Spectrum, Wireless

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Saturday, February 10, 2007

Need. More. TV.

posted by Scott Wallsten @ 3:47 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications, Internet, Local Franchising, The FCC, Wireline

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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

The new broadband statistics are out!

posted by Scott Wallsten @ 9:04 PM | Broadband, Communications, Internet, Spectrum, The FCC

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Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Venezuela goes retro: Will Chavez mandate rotary phones next?

posted by Scott Wallsten @ 8:39 PM | Communications

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Thursday, December 21, 2006

Ongoing T/BLS recriminations

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

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Appearance on C-SPAN's "The Communicators"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:11 AM | Communications, DACA, Free Speech, General, Mass Media, Spectrum, Universal Service

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006

Alfred Kahn on Net Neutrality

posted by Patrick Ross @ 3:45 PM | Capitol Hill, Communications, Net Neutrality, The FCC

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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Kennard on Net Neutrality

posted by Patrick Ross @ 11:18 AM | Broadband, Communications, Internet, Net Neutrality

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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Must-Read on Telecom Taxes

posted by Patrick Ross @ 11:49 AM | Communications, Innovation, Internet, Taxes, Universal Service

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Thursday, October 5, 2006

Net Neutrality and the Small ISP

posted by Patrick Ross @ 10:42 AM | Antitrust & Competition Policy, Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, Economics, Net Neutrality, The FTC

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Thursday, September 28, 2006

Media Regulation and Net Neutrality

posted by Patrick Ross @ 3:22 PM | Broadband, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Mass Media, Net Neutrality

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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Sports and Fetishes

posted by Amy Smorodin @ 4:27 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications, Events, Internet, Local Franchising, Net Neutrality, Sports, VoIP

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Monday, August 21, 2006

Commissioner Adelstein Gets It -- Or Almost All of It

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

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Wednesday, August 9, 2006

WSJ on the Broadband Market

posted by Patrick Ross @ 2:17 PM | Broadband, Communications, Net Neutrality, Spectrum, Wireless

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Friday, June 16, 2006

Censorship and Snakeheads

posted by Patrick Ross @ 10:20 AM | Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, Events, Internet, Net Neutrality, The FTC, VoIP

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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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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Competition Works: An Analysis of Competing Cable-Telco "Triple-Play" Packages

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:19 PM | Broadband, Communications, Innovation, Mass Media, Wireless, Wireline

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Thursday, May 25, 2006

End of the Excise Tax (Perhaps)

posted by Patrick Ross @ 11:47 AM | Communications

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Monday, May 22, 2006

Net Neutrality in Lake Wobegon

posted by Patrick Ross @ 11:45 AM | Antitrust & Competition Policy, Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, Net Neutrality

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Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Skype Now Free Domestically

posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:17 PM | Communications, Innovation, VoIP

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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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Why Communications and Media Markets Will Probably Never Be Deregulated

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:17 AM | Communications, Generic Rant, Mass Media

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Wednesday, May 3, 2006

Net Neutrality = A Financial Services Industry Free-Ride?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:49 PM | Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, Mass Media, Net Neutrality, Wireline

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Monday, May 1, 2006

Some Thoughts on the New Senate Telecom Reform Draft

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:01 PM | Capitol Hill, Communications, Mass Media

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Thursday, April 27, 2006

Net Neutrality: Remembering the Little Ones

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 8:32 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications, DACA, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, VoIP, Wireless, Wireline

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

More on Saving the Internet

posted by Patrick Ross @ 6:40 PM | Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, E-commerce, Internet, Net Neutrality

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Do You Really "Save the Internet" By Regulating It?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:07 AM | Cable, Communications, Free Speech, Net Neutrality, Wireline

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

So You Still Believe in Infrastructure Socialism?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:55 AM | Broadband, Communications, Innovation, Mass Media, Wireline

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Thursday, April 13, 2006

Progress in the Debate on Local Telecom Reform?

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 2:24 PM | Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, DACA, General, Internet, Municipal Ownership, State Policy, Wireless, Wireline

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006

$218 Trillion Mistake?

posted by @ 11:14 AM | Communications

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Thursday, April 6, 2006

New Neutrality Proposals: Ask Me No Questions, Tell Me No . . .

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 6:54 PM | Broadband, Cable, Capitol Hill, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, The FCC, VoIP, Wireless, Wireline

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Thursday, March 30, 2006

Adjudicating Network Neutrality: Upsides, Downsides and Practical Implications

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 11:47 PM | Antitrust & Competition Policy, Broadband, Cable, Capitol Hill, Communications, DACA, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, The FCC, VoIP, Wireless, Wireline

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Thursday, March 23, 2006

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Bundle?

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 11:16 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, VoIP, Wireless, Wireline

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Thursday, March 16, 2006

Network Neutrality: It's the Jurisdiction, Stupid

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 8:22 PM | Antitrust & Competition Policy, Broadband, Cable, Capitol Hill, Communications, DACA, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, Supreme Court, The FCC, VoIP, Wireline

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Wireless Piggybacking

posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:16 PM | Broadband, Communications, Innovation, Wireless

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Monday, March 13, 2006

"The Eden Illusion"

posted by Patrick Ross @ 9:42 AM | Broadband, Communications, DACA, E-commerce, Internet, 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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Tuesday, March 7, 2006

Reed Hundt on Telecom Mergers: From "Unthinkable" to "You Want 'em Big" in Less than 10 Years!

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:49 AM | Antitrust & Competition Policy, Communications, Wireline

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Monday, March 6, 2006

Possible Conditions on the AT&T-Bell South Deal

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:57 AM | Antitrust & Competition Policy, Communications, Net Neutrality, Wireless, Wireline

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Friday, February 17, 2006

Worms in the Apple?

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 1:02 PM | Broadband, Cable, Capitol Hill, Communications, DACA, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, VoIP, Wireless, Wireline

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Friday, January 27, 2006

Post-Trinko: Toward an Holistic Approach to Antitrust and Broadband Regulation

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 8:21 AM | Antitrust & Competition Policy, Broadband, Communications, Internet, Supreme Court, The FCC, The FTC

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Friday, January 20, 2006

Theoretically Speaking: Trinko and Broadband

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 12:19 AM | Antitrust & Competition Policy, Broadband, Cable, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, Supreme Court, The FCC, Wireless, Wireline

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Friday, January 6, 2006

Of Puppies and Private Carriage

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 11:42 AM | Broadband, Communications

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006

VZ Video To Go Into Howard County

posted by @ 11:43 AM | Cable, Communications, State Policy

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Friday, December 30, 2005

Gelertner Does Jacob Bayer

posted by @ 12:41 PM | Communications, General, Innovation, Internet

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Friday, November 18, 2005

In Search of Appropriate Social Goals in Communications Regulation

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 1:12 AM | Broadband, Cable, Capitol Hill, Communications, Free Speech, Innovation, Internet, Mass Media, The FCC, Universal Service, VoIP, Wireless, Wireline

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Is Convergence Nothing But Hype?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:52 PM | Communications, Innovation, Mass Media

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Thursday, November 3, 2005

A Silver Lining to Net Neutrality Merger Conditions?

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 4:02 PM | Broadband, Cable, Capitol Hill, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, The FCC, VoIP, Wireless, Wireline

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Friday, October 28, 2005

Franchising--It's about the taxes

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

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DACA Rolls through Boulder, Colorado

posted by Patrick Ross @ 10:24 AM | Communications

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Thursday, October 27, 2005

The Real Net Neutrality Debate: Pricing Flexibility Versus Pricing Regulation

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:11 AM | Communications, Mass Media, Net Neutrality, Wireline

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Thursday, October 20, 2005

Paved with Good Intentions

posted by Patrick Ross @ 2:40 PM | Broadband, Communications, Internet, Universal Service

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Friday, October 14, 2005

Crossing Thresholds: Questioning the Ends and Means of Social Regulation in Communications

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 8:38 PM | Broadband, Cable, Capitol Hill, Communications, General, Innovation, Internet, Mass Media, Net Neutrality, The FCC, Universal Service, VoIP, Wireless, Wireline

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Wednesday, October 5, 2005

Google, Do You Really Want to Be a Telecom Company?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:37 PM | Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, Mass Media, Municipal Ownership, Net Neutrality, Wireless

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Thursday, September 29, 2005

Regulation Without Frontiers

posted by Patrick Ross @ 2:20 PM | Communications, Digital Europe, Free Speech, Internet, Mass Media

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Friday, September 23, 2005

Think Tank Consensus Builds on the Telecom Discussion Draft

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:22 AM | Capitol Hill, Communications, Wireline

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Thursday, September 22, 2005

Property Rights and Flyin' West

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 5:45 PM | Communications, General, IP

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Cingular Joins the Fray

posted by Mike Pickford @ 12:28 PM | Communications

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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Verizon on the Move

posted by Mike Pickford @ 1:51 PM | Communications

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Friday, September 16, 2005

Communications Reform and "Social" Obligations: Looking for Another Way

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 6:27 PM | Broadband, Cable, Capitol Hill, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, The FCC, Universal Service, VoIP, Wireline

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Long Live Public Interest Regulation!

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:07 AM | Broadband, Cable, Capitol Hill, Communications, Mass Media, VoIP, Wireline

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Thursday, September 15, 2005

Looks Like They Were Right

posted by Patrick Ross @ 2:33 PM | Broadband, Communications, Municipal Ownership, Wireless

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Monday, September 12, 2005

More Thoughts on eBay-Skype Merger and What It Means for Net Neutrality Debate in Particular

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:18 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications, Innovation, VoIP, Wireline

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To Be or Not to Be: EBay as Phone Company?

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 3:00 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications, Innovation, Internet, The FCC, Universal Service, VoIP, Wireline

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Thursday, September 8, 2005

Public Safety Tradeoffs Post-Katrina

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 5:37 PM | Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, Internet, Interoperability, The FCC, VoIP, Wireless, Wireline

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Friday, August 26, 2005

Reasonableness in Video Service Deployment

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 1:46 AM | Broadband, Cable, Communications, Wireline

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Thursday, August 25, 2005

GoogleTalk and Net Neutrality: A Cautionary Tale

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 11:39 AM | Broadband, Cable, Capitol Hill, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, Supreme Court, The FCC, VoIP, Wireline

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Friday, August 19, 2005

The FCC and Organization Development

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 10:17 AM | Broadband, Cable, Capitol Hill, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Mass Media, Spectrum, The FCC, VoIP, Wireless, Wireline

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Thursday, August 11, 2005

Downsides to Deregulating Broadband??

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 7:00 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Mass Media, Supreme Court, The FCC, Wireless, Wireline

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Net Neutrality Mandates After the FCC's Policy Statement

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 6:05 PM | Broadband, Cable, Capitol Hill, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, Supreme Court, The FCC, Wireline

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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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Thursday, August 4, 2005

Wireline Deregulation: A Broadband Review Lesson

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 9:52 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, Supreme Court, The FCC, Universal Service, Wireline

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Monday, July 11, 2005

Post-Brand X: A Broader Look at Consumer Protection

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 6:47 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications

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Thursday, July 7, 2005

A Vote of Confidence

posted by Tom Lenard @ 3:02 PM | Broadband, Communications, Electricity

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Openness Post-Brand X: It begins . . .

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 2:18 PM | Broadband, Cable, Capitol Hill, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, Supreme Court

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Thursday, June 30, 2005

FCC Regulation of Service Bundles??

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 1:30 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications, Innovation, Internet, VoIP, Wireline

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Broadband Post-Brand X: The Long and Winding Road

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 3:50 PM | Broadband, Broadband, Cable, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Net Neutrality, The FCC, Wireline

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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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Tuesday, June 21, 2005

In Re: DACA

posted by Ray Gifford @ 9:49 PM | Communications

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Monday, June 20, 2005

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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Friday, June 10, 2005

Spectrum Reform: The UK Perspective in Guatemala

posted by Tom Lenard @ 7:44 PM | Communications, Spectrum, Wireless

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Thursday, June 9, 2005

Spectrum Reform in Guatemala

posted by Tom Lenard @ 11:42 PM | Communications, Spectrum, Wireless

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Video Over Fiber: Rhetorical Ironies and Inconsistencies

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 8:28 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Universal Service

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Friday, June 3, 2005

Filling the Ranks

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 4:53 PM | Cable, Communications, Mass Media, The FCC

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Thursday, May 26, 2005

The Ho-Hum on Communications Taxes

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 3:31 PM | Capitol Hill, Communications, General, State Policy, Universal Service

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Is Judge Dillon in the Texas House?

posted by @ 11:27 AM | Cable, Communications, State Policy

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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Timely, Quick & Comprehensive Deregulation

posted by Patrick Ross @ 3:23 PM | Communications

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Equal Time for Digital TV, Courtesy of Radio

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 10:07 AM | Communications, Digital TV

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Monday, May 23, 2005

Ugh!

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

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DTV and Wireless Broadband: Come Now, Folks . .

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 5:10 PM | Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, Digital TV, Spectrum, Wireless

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Thursday, May 19, 2005

Flagging Deference

posted by Randolph May @ 10:44 AM | Broadband, Communications, Digital TV

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Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Telecom and Consumer Reps

posted by Patrick Ross @ 2:03 PM | Communications

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Thursday, May 12, 2005

The Broadcast Flag and Minimum Requirements for Broadband

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 1:51 PM | Broadband, Communications, Internet, Net Neutrality, The FCC, VoIP

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Thursday, May 5, 2005

CA Consumer Bill of Rights: It's Baaaaack . . .

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 5:47 PM | Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, Net Neutrality, VoIP

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Friday, April 29, 2005

Another Lesson from a Mad River, Courtesy of Professor Lessig

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 11:25 AM | Broadband, Cable, Communications, Net Neutrality, The FCC

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Thursday, April 21, 2005

"Hill Ponders Regulating Convergence": A Note on the Proper Way to Solve "Level Playing Field" Concerns

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:57 AM | Cable, Communications, Mass Media

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Your Telephone Company Will Be Your Next Cable Company

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:52 AM | Cable, Communications, Mass Media

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Monday, April 18, 2005

The Internet Dragon

posted by @ 10:16 AM | Communications

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Thursday, April 7, 2005

A Little Telecom Reform May Go a Long Way in the Short Run

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 10:52 PM | Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, Innovation, Think Tanks

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Monday, April 4, 2005

JPII on Communication

posted by Ray Gifford @ 3:11 PM | Communications

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Friday, April 1, 2005

A Good Great Debate

posted by Randolph May @ 10:34 AM | Communications

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Brand X: Whither FCC Deference?

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 6:11 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications, Supreme Court, The FCC

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Thursday, March 24, 2005

Aspen Conference Kicks Off Federal Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 7:36 PM | Capitol Hill, Communications, Economics, Electricity, Events, General, IP, Think Tanks

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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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Thursday, March 17, 2005

"The Device That Ate Everything"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:50 AM | Communications

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Friday, March 11, 2005

Declaration of Very Few Principles

posted by @ 10:18 AM | Communications

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Thursday, March 10, 2005

Broadband and Internet Voice: Lessons from a Mad River

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 6:02 PM | Broadband, Communications, The FCC, VoIP

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Tuesday, March 8, 2005

Independent Pipes (or POPs Providers)

posted by Randolph May @ 4:46 PM | Communications

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Friday, March 4, 2005

Clayton Christensen on the Communications Industry

posted by James DeLong @ 12:30 PM | Communications

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Thursday, March 3, 2005

Telco Video and Digital Must Carry: Making a "Problem" Worse

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 5:54 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications

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Sunday, February 27, 2005

"The Behemoth is Dead"

posted by @ 8:45 PM | Communications

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Thursday, February 24, 2005

Cable-Telco Video Competition: Beyond Level Playing Fields

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 3:37 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications, General, State Policy

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Another Legislative Lap in Indiana

posted by @ 9:30 AM | Communications, State Policy

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Wednesday, February 23, 2005

AT&T Loses $500 Million Gamble

posted by @ 9:13 PM | Capitol Hill, Communications, Communications, The FCC

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Thursday, February 17, 2005

FCC on Wireless Broadband and Must Carry: No Lame Ducks Here

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 11:05 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications

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Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Rumblings from Boulder: Consensus and Next Steps in Telecom Reform

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 2:55 PM | Antitrust & Competition Policy, Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, IP

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Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Silicon Flatirons Blogstravanganza

posted by @ 10:21 PM | Communications

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Monday, February 14, 2005

End of an Era

posted by Mike Pickford @ 10:13 AM | Communications

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Thursday, February 10, 2005

Iowa Movement

posted by @ 5:17 PM | Communications, State Policy

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Monday, February 7, 2005

Cato Panel on Telecom Reform

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 9:54 PM | Communications

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Level Playing Field

posted by Patrick Ross @ 12:14 PM | Communications

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Friday, February 4, 2005

TV Privacy: The Economics of Creepiness

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 10:53 AM | Cable, Communications

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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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Digital State of the Union: Details to Follow (?)

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 1:19 PM | Communications, The FCC

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Wednesday, February 2, 2005

DACA Launch and Essays

posted by Randolph May @ 10:38 AM | 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

SBC-AT&T Merger: There they go again . . .

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 2:34 PM | Communications

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

posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:02 AM | Communications

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Listen to Humpty Dumpty

posted by Randolph May @ 9:52 AM | Antitrust & Competition Policy, Communications, Wireless

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Sunday, January 30, 2005

Classification Axioms

posted by Randolph May @ 6:07 PM | Communications, The FCC

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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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Bell-AT&T Mergers: Who's "Unthinking" Now?

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 10:52 AM | Communications

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SBC to Swallow AT&T?

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:32 AM | Communications

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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

CableCards, Competition and Modularity in the Digital Age

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 4:39 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications

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Universal Service: Broken But Fixable

posted by Randolph May @ 12:14 PM | Communications

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Tuesday, January 11, 2005

There's Something Rotten Near Detroit

posted by @ 5:19 PM | Communications

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Cliff Clavin, Telephone Man

posted by @ 2:58 PM | Communications, Wireline

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Capitol Power Play

posted by Patrick Ross @ 2:48 PM | Communications

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9, 8, 2...Can You Find the Pattern?

posted by @ 2:30 PM | Communications, The FCC

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Monday, January 10, 2005

State of the Net

posted by Patrick Ross @ 4:01 PM | Capitol Hill, Communications, IP

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Wednesday, January 5, 2005

More post-holiday shopping -- sigh

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 2:57 PM | Communications, State Policy

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Telecom Romance

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

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Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Mess with Texas

posted by @ 2:14 PM | Communications, State Policy

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Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Telephone Taxes in '05

posted by @ 2:50 PM | Communications

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Wednesday, December 15, 2004

TRO: Temporary Restraint in Order

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 2:55 PM | Communications, The FCC

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Thursday, December 9, 2004

Competition Rings in the Heartland

posted by @ 10:49 PM | Communications

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Wednesday, December 8, 2004

The Path of Least Resistance

posted by @ 3:59 PM | Communications, State Policy, VoIP

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Friday, December 3, 2004

Commissars at Bay

posted by Patrick Ross @ 3:08 PM | Communications

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Thursday, December 2, 2004

Universal common denominators in telecom reform

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 2:57 PM | Communications, Universal Service

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Wednesday, December 1, 2004

The Self-Regulation of Emergency Services

posted by @ 9:03 PM | Communications

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Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Christmas Comes Early...

posted by @ 5:42 PM | Communications

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Tuesday, November 23, 2004

A Totally Different Form of Self-Regulation

posted by @ 3:54 PM | Communications

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Primary Line Restriction Gets "the Heisman"

posted by @ 2:43 PM | Communications, The FCC

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Thursday, November 18, 2004

A Word on the NARUC Resolutions...Milquetoast

posted by @ 4:02 PM | Communications, State Policy

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A helping hand reaches out

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 10:12 AM | Communications

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Tuesday, November 16, 2004

MCI Induces a Moment of Zen

posted by @ 7:44 PM | Communications, State Policy

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Friday, November 5, 2004

Quantifying the Turning Point for Illusory Competition Policy

posted by @ 8:40 PM | Communications

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Friday, October 29, 2004

Call Centers and Fiber Optics

posted by @ 3:28 PM | Communications

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Friday, October 22, 2004

A Bracing Wind in Boston

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 11:53 AM | Communications

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