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You are hereMicrosoftCesar Conda gets it right: read his editorial on broadband issuesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2007-07-18 12:28
Google surrogate CCIA lashes back against "Googleopoly" reportSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2007-07-17 19:12It didn't take long for the Empire to Strike back! Shortly after the release of Googleopoly, Ed Black, President and CEO of the Computer and Communications Industry Association, which represents Google, put out a critical press release on my Googleopoly white paper entitled: "Merger Report Unconvincing."
As expected they tried to discredit the messenger because they don't like the message. Standard operating procedure from my debate opponents. Why the FTC Will Likely Block the Google-DoubleClick MergerSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2007-07-17 09:52My detailed analysis over the last several weeks leads me to believe that the FTC is likely to block the Google-DoubleClick merger because it will enable Google to dominate online advertising and dramatically increase the opportunity for market collusion and price manipulation in the market for consumer click data, ad-performance tools, ad-brokering and ad-exchanges. Antitrust is fact-specific and evidence-driven. To understand the true antitrust outlook for a merger one needs to become familiar with the core facts of the case. To date, media and investment coverage of this merger has been remarkably superficial.
I see three big takeaways from my white paper. First, the more people learn about this merger the more concern they will develop. Googleopoly conf. call Tues. July 17 11am EST on Google-DoubleClick mergerSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2007-07-16 15:38You're invited to participate in a conference call Tuesday July 17th at 11 am EST to hear a discussion of, and Q&A on, my new 35-page white paper, entitled:
I will explain how a Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) - DoubleClick merger will facilitate a de facto Internet information access monopoly, substantially lessen competition, and harm consumers, Internet content providers, and advertisers. "Earmarked Airwaves" -- a 700 MHz auction "UNE-P" deja vu?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2007-06-27 11:08Kudos to Robert Hahn and Hal Singer for their outstanding op ed in the Washington Post "Earmarked Airwaves."
At its core a spectrum auction is the quintessential type of competition. The auction law's purpose in 1993 was to use market forces, competition, to allocate the public's asset most appropriately, largely because previous FCC spectrum allocation processes were so ineffective, unfair and prone to serious abuse and graft.
This 700 MHz auction may be shaping up to be FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's legacy moment: will it be marked by promoting competition and market-based outcomes or will it be marked by standing on the auction scales to ensure the spectrum is "earmarked" to the predetermined, chosen "winner" -- in this case former Clinton-Gore FCC Chairman Reed Hundt's Frontline Wireless company. The privacy dark side of Google's antitrust win over MicrosoftSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2007-06-20 10:52
Anyone interested in privacy issues, should be on a heightened sense of alert, because Google has just won a big victory in getting its "pryware" deeper into the average American's private life. The media focused only on the antitrust angle in covering Google's antitrust complaint against Microsoft, for not making it easy enough in its new Vista operating system for users to select Google as its search engine of computers' INTERNAL hard drive. Despite puffery over 700 MHz "3rd pipe" -- the market is solving itSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2007-06-15 09:43You gotta love how the free market works when left alone by the Government! Just as Frontline and others are demanding that the government has to intervene in the 700 MHz auction to "create" a third broadband pipe, the free market finds another way to solve these market problems without the Government. One of the most significant developments in the spectrum world today was not the hot air at the Senate Commerce Committee hearing, but what happened in the free market -- DirecTV and Echostar signing agreements with Clearwire to sell their WiMax broadband service. WSJ lead article highlights tradeoff of competition vs regulationSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2007-06-14 11:11The cover story in the Wall Street Journal today "A fight over what you can do with your cellphone; Handset makers push free features for which carriers pay for" was obviously perfectly-timed and placed by open access/net neutrality proponents trying to influence the Senate Commerce Committee hearing today on the FCC's 700 MHz auction.
What the article ignores is the broader and essential context of this issue and debate. Note to Google: Those in glass houses should not throw stonesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2007-06-11 10:55Google, in making a high-profile complaint to the Justice Department and State Attorney Generals, about Microsoft's latest operating system Vista, appears to be naively unaware of its own antitrust vulnerabilities in its pending Google-DoubleClick antitrust review at the FTC. It has always been unwise for those in "glass houses to throw stones." FCC Commissioner McDowell debunks OECD broadband rankingsSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2007-06-07 18:20FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell gave an outstanding speech today at the Broadband Policy Summit in which he did the single best job I have seen totally debunking the OECD rankings that purportedly indicate the US is falling behind on broadband. Commissioner McDowell explains with example after example -- how skewed the OECD methodology is.
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