What's Good for Verizon and AT&T Is Terrible for American Consumers
Jul 26, 2012"We should be talking about fiber networks that enable rich clouds of nomadic connectivity and commodity devices that can access those networks and any content or application they want....
View ArticleTeam USA Deserves No Gold Medals for Internet Access
Aug 5, 2012"We seem bent on providing the technological equivalent of the Olympic sport of dressage — high-speed Internet access only for rich people. We're prancing around a core market failure that...
View ArticleWhen Competition Is Cooked, Consumers Are Toast
Aug 15, 2012"Fiber policy is wireless policy, and building fiber deep into cities and towns across the country will also get us the nomadic connectivity we can't live without. Say you spend thirty...
View ArticleMore Than an Appliance: Verizon, the FCC and our Digital Future
Aug 21, 2012"The DOJ has opened a broad inquiry into the practices and powers of the cable industry: that's the good news. As policymakers finalize this gargantuan deal, they should keep in mind that...
View ArticleIn Apple vs Samsung, Expect Nobody to Truly Win
Aug 24, 2012"...[T]he worst outcome of all for consumers might be an Apple victory that leads to a settlement with Samsung: We would be left with nothing but Apple-licensed clones on the market. And...
View ArticleApple's Scorched-Earth IPhone Fight With Google
Sep 24, 2012"...[A] vertically integrated, market-dominating carrier such as Comcast could now employ its usage caps (which wouldn't necessarily apply to its own or affiliated services) to effectively...
View ArticleWe Can't All Be in Google's Kansas: A Plan for Winning the Bandwidth Race
Oct 2, 2012"America should be planning for this communications utility in the same way we plan for water and electricity — ensuring that conduit is everywhere. With a functioning wholesale marketplace,...
View ArticleWhy Cell Phones Went Dead After Hurricane Sandy
Nov 15, 2012"...[A]fter a decade of steady deregulation, during which communications companies asserted that new wires required new rules, the companies are in charge of themselves. What's more, those...
View ArticleKilling Program Access and Broadband Competition
Nov 15, 2012Another Friday filing by the FCC: 146 pages on program access. It’s a classic on-the-one-hand-on-the-other item. This time around it’s even worse for the public, because the underlying...
View ArticleCaptive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age
Feb 12, 2013This important book by leading telecommunications policy expert Susan Crawford explores why Americans are now paying much more but getting much less when it comes to high-speed Internet...
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