First, Do No Harm

The more things change, well, the more things change.

Google’s Android – the newcomer in the Darwinian market for mobile operating systems just two years ago – has leapt past both RIM’s Blackberry OS and Apple’s iPhone OS to take the lead as the most-used platform for smartphones in …

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Common Sense

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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Hahn and Singer on Smartphones

In love with your iPhone, but irritated that the marvelous gadget works only on AT&T’s network? Join the crowd. But don’t jump to the conclusion that Apple’s exclusive marketing agreement with AT&T – or any other handset maker’s exclusive agreement with a network provider – undermines competition in the market for …

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What's Discrimination Got to Do with It?

Apologies to Tina Turner. But, yes, like the chair of the FCC (see our Jan. 12th post), we believe that discrimination does have a lot to do with the net neutrality debate. That agreement, though, is the beginning of the debate, not the end, because there is hardly a …

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