The trend toward wireless voice calling at prices more akin to data plan pricing continued this week with the unveiling of AT&T’s Call International App. The free app (which works on most of AT&T’s smartphones) dramatically cuts the cost of voice rates when the phone is connected to …
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By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: apps, AT&T, smartphones | Category: Quick Takes, Telecommunications Regulation |
 Leave a commentRoger 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 … 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 … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: competition, CTIA, mobile phones, smartphones | 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 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 |
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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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