Mobile telecom devices (basic cell phones, smartphones, wireless tablets) are everywhere these days, and anybody who’s paying attention knows that business has grown from big to awesome at the refresh rate of an active-matrix organic light-emitting diode screen. But the U.S. numbers, reported in a proprietary analysis by the wireless …
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By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: competition, CTIA, mobile phones, smartphones | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
 Leave a commentJournalist Matt Hamblen offers anecdotal evidence from the CTIA wireless conference that mobile phones can dramatically increase the economic mobility of the poor. Among other things, cell phones can end the economic isolation of rural villages, increasing their access to competitive markets for both … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: competition, CTIA, economic mobility, mobile phones, poverty, wireless | Category: Quick Takes, Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentEleven years ago, one of us (Hahn) produced some research on the consequences of using cell phones while driving – research that proved controversial. The upshot was that the case for banning cell phone use while driving was no slam dunk. Others – well, almost everybody who took keyboard to hand … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: driving, James E. Prieger, mobile phones, texting, Tom and Ray Magliozzi | Category: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Safety Regulation |
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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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