Who says Congress never does anything? In what amounts to the legislative equivalent of a multi-carom trick shot in billiards, the House and Senate have cobbled together a complex deal in which a hefty chunk of airwaves now controlled by television stations will be auctioned off to wireless telecom carriers for …
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By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: FCC, Spectrum, unemployment | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
 Leave a commentThe world is an amazing place. You can sit in a Starbucks in Malibu while I’m sipping tomato soup at a Pret a Manger in London, and we chat for free using Skype or Viber or Rebtel. Or how ‘bout this one: You can pull a smartphone out of your … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: AT&T, FCC, Ronald Coase, Spectrum, Verizon | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentVerizon, America’s largest wireless network, pulled a rabbit out of its corporate hat last month, announcing a multi-billion dollar deal to buy spectrum from cable-TV giants Comcast and Time Warner and the smaller, Syracuse, NY-based Bright House Networks. Sound familiar? AT&T, number two in wireless, made a similarly surprising move … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: AT&T, Ronald Coase, Spectrum, Verizon | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentCalifornia’s Public Utilities Commission has decided to investigate the proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger, making no bones about the PUC’s concern that the merged companies’ combined market share in the state (47 percent) would be anti-competitive. Maybe, but there’s an irony here. AT&T’s goal is to use T-Mobile’s surplus spectrum … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Antitrust, AT&T, California Public Utilities Commission, merger, Spectrum, T-Mobile | Category: Quick Takes, Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentSoon smartphones, tablets and as-yet barely imagined gadgets will be as ubiquitous as MP3 players, opening the door to a wireless future in which everything from professional sports to MRI scans will be available on demand anytime, anywhere. Or maybe not: much turns on the outcome of a struggle between … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Broadband, FCC, Genachowski, LTE, Spectrum, wireless | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentThe wireless communications revolution runs on money, technology and spectrum. The money and technology fronts seem in fine shape, thank you. And we are guardedly optimistic that the Obama administration will soon help to ease the spectrum bottleneck by auctioning off some underutilized electromagnetic real estate, raising billions of dollars … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: AT&T, FCC, SkyTerra, Spectrum, Verizon, wireless | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentGoogle has once again shaken up an IT market (this time the market for Internet service) with a plan for an experimental superfast fiber-optic network. The very best part of the announcement is the price tag to federal taxpayers: nada. Instead of lobbying Washington for a handout as an … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Google, open access, Spectrum | Category: Broadband, Internet, Telecommunications 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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