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You are hereInnovationTaking one's business elsewhere -- what a concept! TechCrunch's Arrington proves competition worksSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2009-08-10 14:34Sometimes the simplest solution can somehow elude people for a period of time.
Competitive differentiated choice -- what a concept -- why didn't anyone think of this before?
Mr. Arrington's epiphany -- that robust wireless and broadband competition not only exists, but actually works very well -- is a powerful reminder that the first and best solution for consumers is not regulation, but to simply to choose to take their business elsewhere. A Maslow "Hierarchy of Internet Needs?" -- Will there be Internet priorities or a priority-less Internet?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2009-07-30 11:29A central policy question concerning the future of the Internet, cloud computing, and the National Broadband Plan is whether there should be Internet priorities or a priority-less Internet?
To grasp the inherent problem and impracticality with a mandated neutral or priority-less Internet, it is helpful to ask if the Internet, which is comprised of hundreds of millions of individual users, has a mutual "hierarchy of needs" just like individuals have a "hierarchy of needs," per Maslow's famed, common sense "Hierarchy of Needs" theory. Helping the FCC Analyze Broadband TradeoffsSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2009-07-27 13:22"People are not approaching this from the perspective of helping us analyze what the trade-offs are" said FCC Broadband Coordinator Blair Levin about public comments to the National Broadband Plan -- per Multichannel News.
A recap of the key trade-offs facing the FCC: Where does choice come from?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2009-07-23 21:00Choice, having the benefit of a selection of different alternatives to choose from, springs from the risk and opportunity of market competition -- not from Government economic regulation. Ironically Zittrain's "Lost in the Cloud" emphasizes three of my big concerns/themesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2009-07-20 12:03Jonathan Zittrain's NYTimes Op-ed today, "Lost in the Clouds" ironically captured three of my big concerns/themes about the Internet and its natural outgrowth -- cloud computing.
Handset Exclusives Drive Growth & Broadband Adoption -- Why regulate tech/computer sales?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2009-07-01 15:13Handset marketing exclusives are a pro-competitive wellspring of wireless growth and broadband adoption. Marketing exclusives are also a legitimate, proven and widespread marketing practice that marshals maximum marketing resources for selected, potentially-hot-new-products in order to drive maximum sales and adoption. Comcast-Clearwire 4G Rollout Spotlights Vibrant U.S. Facilities-Based Broadband CompetitionSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2009-06-30 12:23Comcast-Clearwire's 4G WiMax rollout starting in Portland today, as part of broader national launch this year, is powerful evidence of the vibrancy and dynamism of the facilities-based broadband competition trajectory in the U.S.
Contrary to the parade of imperfection horribles claimed by anti-competition groups to try and justify a wide variety of new net neutrality-related regulations, the U.S. has more real and growing facilities-based broadband competition than any nation in the world. The Comcast announcement provides powerful proof points of all the good aspects of vibrant facilities-based competition. Putting the Tech Elites' Whining in Perspective -- Swanson's new U.S. Bandwidth Boom ReportSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2009-06-24 14:06Kudos to Bret Swanson's excellent new research: "Bandwidth Boom: Measuring U.S. Communications Capacity from 2000-2008."
This research also helps refute the constant whining and pessimism by the tech elites' that the U.S. is in the "digital dark ages," is falling behind the world in broadband, and in need of massive U.S. Government intervention in the Internet infrastructure market in order to make any progress. In summary, Bret Swanson's Entropy Economics report found:
"Over the eight-year period: Challenging Mr. Bogle's Claim Indexing is InvestingSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2009-06-12 12:34With all due respect to Mr. John Bogle, legendary founder of Vanguard and de facto leader of the American index fund movement that now manages ~$1.5 trillion, I must respectfully challenge, on the merits, Mr. Bogle's, and others, ongoing mischaracterization of indexing as "investing." The National Broadband Plan "Fork-in-the-Road"Submitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2009-06-08 20:56A scan of the major comments just delivered to the FCC on the National Broadband Plan (which is due to Congress February 2010), spotlighted the big broadband policy "fork-in-the-road" decision that the FCC now has before it. Pages |