If you are interested in learning great "pearls of wisdom" based on expansive experience and clarity-of-thought on the question of wireless innovation, and proposed Internet regulation of wireless innovation, please read the Farber-Faulhaber white paper; at a minimum, please read the many wonderful highlights that I have pulled out of the paper for you below.
Professor Dave Farber, a widely respected Internet pioneer who has been called the "grandfather of the Internet" for his contributions to computer science, and a former Chief Technologist for the FCC, co-authored an important white paper with Professor Faulhaber for the FCC's Wireless innovation Notice of Inquiry.
Highlights from this outstanding paper:
"Different carriers will adopt different network management strategies; provided customers are informed (see below) as to what their carriers are up to, they can make informed decisions about which carriers will get their business. Network management that is too restrictive, perhaps anticompetitive, will be punished by customers. Likewise, network management that is too lax, that permits outages and dropped calls because of congestion will also be punished. Again, let the customer decide what level of network management they prefer. And again, we expect different customers will make different choices. What we know for sure is that this is not a choice government bureaucrats should be making for customers." [bold added]
On conclusions in Chairman Genachowski's Open Internet speech: "In asserting that network neutrality in the wired and wireless ecosystems was necessary to preserve innovation, there was not one shred of evidence adduced that shows innovation is being harmed." [Bold added]
"The Chairman’s assertions that this does not constitute regulation of the Internet is also beyond credible: imposing constraints on carrier pricing (zero charges on application providers), on carrier product differentiation (no expedited service), and on how carriers are permitted to manage their own networks certainly sounds like regulation. Even worse, adopting “reasonable” network management as a rule introduces great uncertainly into the market; exactly what behaviors will incur the wrath of the regulator? Don’t know; we’ll punish you when we see it. If ever a policy was designed to increase cost, reduce customer choice, reduce incentives to innovate and reduce incentives for carriers to invest, this would be it." [Bold added]
"There is no market failure here; if the FCC wants to mandate business models and impose costs and eliminate customer choices the FCC should not cloak it in the language of efficiency and innovation."
"Our position is crystal clear: let customers decide what they want and need."