Yikes, They’re Almost Giving it Away

Roger Entner, the blogger/communications specialist, makes an interesting point in a recent post. The price of wireless services has fallen sharply in recent years. Yet for reasons unclear, the industry hasn’t seen fit to toot its own horn.

This graph below (or at least its implicit message) may be …

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Salad Bar Pricing Is a Non-Starter for the Next-Generation Internet

Perhaps it’s the air or the water. But something about Washington encourages the otherwise sane to talk jibberish even — no, especially — when the subject is markets. Or so it seems when reading some of the jeremiads against Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski’s recent proposal for ending the …

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Where Angels Fear to Tread

Frustrated 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 …

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