Bob Litan (Kauffman Foundation) and Hal Singer (Navigant Economics) offer a clear, concise explanation of net neutrality – and why priority-use deals should be presumed pro-competitive until proven otherwise. Reading it, you gotta wonder why centrists in the Obama Administration …
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By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Hal Singer, network neutrality, Robert Litan | Category: Quick Takes, Telecommunications Regulation |
 Leave a commentCountercyclical fiscal policy creates jobs, income and economic capacity during lean times. Could countercyclical regulatory policy be used to the same ends? In a policy brief released by the liberal Progressive Policy Institute, Michael Mandel, the former economics editor of Business Week who is now editor-in-chief of [READ MORE...] If you bought any generation of iPhone in the U.S., a federal judge just decided you can now join a class action challenging the exclusive marketing agreement between Apple and AT&T. It’s just not evident why you would want to. It’s not at all clear you are … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Apple, AT&T, Google, iPhone, Microsoft, Nokia, Research in Motion | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
One commentJust before the tech bubble crashed in 2000 Microsoft had a market capitalization of $586 billion while one-time rival Apple’s cap languished at $17 billion. Now the two tech icons are running neck and neck — a reversal of fortune the bloggerati are inclined to ascribe to a … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Antitrust, Apple, Federal Trade Commission, Google, Microsoft | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentRemember “video-conferencing,” the technology once promoted as a substitute for business travel? Grainy video screens and telephone-quality audio proved to be a hard-sell, never displacing more than a tiny fraction of face-to-face contact. But now, thanks to the low cost of bandwidth and dramatic improvements in both hardware and software, … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Carbon Disclosure Project, telepresence, Verdantix, video conferencing | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentA big question these days for smartphone users is whether telecommunications providers will continue to offer “all you can eat” data plans or switch to charging by the megabyte. The more important issue–at least from … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: 4G, AT&T, Comcast, Federal Communications Commission, smartphones, Verizon | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentAs mandated by Congress the FCC came out with its 14th annual report [Download Here] on the state of competition in the market for wireless services. And as usual, it is a trove of solid data, a must-have reference for telecom and antitrust … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Antitrust, FCC, Federal Trade Commission, smartphones, wireless competition report | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentCongress requires the FCC to prepare an annual report on the state of competition in the cell phone industry – the 13th edition came out in January 2009. And with the unveiling of the 14th report scheduled for May 20, Verizon Wireless is making public its views on … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: 4G, Clearwire, competition, FCC, Leap, LTE, MetroPCS, Verizon | Category: Quick Takes, Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentFrustrated by a federal appeals court ruling that the FCC had no authority to second-guess Comcast’s treatment of customers and under pressure from the Obama Administration to impose a net neutrality regime (whatever that truly means) on the broadband industry, FCC Chair Julius Genachowski is now asserting the … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Broadband, Comcast, FCC, Internet, Julius Genachowski, network neutrality | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentIt’s jam-packed with information, and we shuttle countless bits and bytes of it around the globe on fiber-optic cables (no tubes, please). So, is the Internet a telecommunications service or an information service? You may think Washington is preoccupied with unemployment and deficits and tea party antics, but deep, deep … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: discrimination rules, FCC, Internet, Ma Bell, Net Neutrality | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
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