With the election approaching, it’s once again silly season on public policy (it seems to last longer than Major League Baseball these days). Hardly anybody running for office says what he means, or expects anybody to remember what he said after the ballots are counted. And, of course, this dead-end …
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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 … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Android, Blackberry, FCC, Google, Hal Singer, iPhone, RIM | Category: Wireless Regulation |
 Leave a commentBob 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 … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Hal Singer, network neutrality, Robert Litan | Category: Quick Takes, Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentIn 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 … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Hal Singer, Milken Institute Review, Robert Hahn, smartphones | Category: Interesting Research |
Leave a commentApologies 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 … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Dennis Carlton, FCC, Gary Becker, Google, Hal Singer, Net Neutrality, Nicholas Economides, Robert Litan, telecommunications policy, Verizon | Category: Net Neutrality |
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Professor Dieter Helm (Oxford) is a very fine fly fisherman, and an even better economist. If you haven’t done so, take a look at his new book “The Carbon Crunch: How We Are Getting Climate Change Wrong — and How to Fix It” for a bit of unconventional wisdom. He argues that politicians and the general public have not shown any real interest in addressing climate change. Helm argues that places like Europe should focus on setting a price for carbon that would cover consumption (and not just production), and that fracking could be a good “bridge” technology for reducing consumption of coal. The book is readable and insightful for those interested in the inside track on climate policy. 
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