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You are hereInnovation3 min video: Why We Need a Modern Communications LawSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2014-01-08 11:24To learn why America needs to modernize its obsolete communications laws, please take three minutes to view this video where I explain why -- here. Many thanks to Dan Berninger, Founder of the Voice Communications Exchange, for producing this video "VCXC Examines the Future of Communications." Nattering Net Neutrality Nonsense over AT&T’s Sponsored Data Offering – Part 23 Broadband Pricing Freedom SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2014-01-06 19:21Net neutrality activists’ criticism of AT&T’s new freebie for consumers called Sponsored Data is nonsensical. AT&T’s pricing innovation creates a new freebie for consumers and a new freedom for web providers of Internet content, apps and devices that is fully in keeping with any reasonable notion of a free and open Internet. AT&T’s Sponsored Data offering is no different from other business freebies offered to consumers to market and competitively differentiate their businesses like: Amazon’s free shipping and free Kindle wireless service; Apple’s free messaging and video conferencing; Google’s free Search, Fiber, Maps, Mobile Operating System, and video conferencing offerings; or Yahoo’s free email. A full list of all free and open Internet consumer freebies would be endless. AT&T’s Sponsored Data innovation is no different from sponsored ads, website sponsors, content sponsors or any other kind of Internet sponsor. It is nonsensical for net neutrality activists to not be open to yet another free web service. On what reasonable basis is a consumer freebie from AT&T different than a consumer freebie offered by any other competitor in the Internet ecosystem? Perspective on the FCC’s Special Access Delay of its IP Transition – Part 7 Special Access SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2013-12-10 17:54FCC staff just muffed an easy opportunity to advance the IP transition on the FCC’s timetable in the National Broadband Plan. Apparently FCC staff missed the big picture here. 1. On November 25th, AT&T proposed a baby step forward in the IP Transition. AT&T did not propose any change in special access rates. AT&T simply proposed that its special access contract term-lengths, synch up with the FCC’s own goals for when the IP transition should be complete. Instead of promoting investment certainty -- by respecting its own IP transition timetable that the private sector has come to rely on for infrastructure investment planning -- FCC staff announced an unnecessary five-month investigative delay. Why Chairmen Upton/Walden Plan a Communications Act Update – Daily Caller Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2013-12-06 09:06Please don’t miss my latest Daily Caller op-ed “Why Chairmen Upton/Walden Plan a Communications Act Update” – here. The op-ed provides a foundational answer to both:
This is Part 21 of my Obsolete Communications Law Series. *** FYI: See additional background below: two key PowerPoint presentations & my Obsolete Communications Law Series. The FCC’s IP Transition: Two Key PerspectivesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2013-11-22 11:11Kudos are due to FCC Chairman Wheeler for quickly announcing that “it is time to act with dispatch” on the IP transition, and putting that into swift action. As the FCC refocuses on the IP transition, some important perspective is warranted. First, the consumer-driven transition to IP in the marketplace is already three quarters complete. 1G Government in 4G World – My Daily Caller op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2013-07-16 12:44Please see my latest Daily Caller op-ed: “1G Government in a 4G World” – here.
* * * * * Obsolete Communications Law Research Series: The New U.S. Spectrum Policy Has Big Problems – Part 9 -- Government Spectrum Waste Fraud & Abuse SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2013-06-19 16:01Please see my latest Daily Caller op-ed: "The New U.S. Spectrum Policy Has Big Problems” -- here.
* * * * * America's private video market success -- My Daily Caller Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2013-05-16 14:32Please see my latest Daily Caller op-ed: "America's private video market success" here.
* * * * * Part 1: Netflix' Glass House Temper Tantrum Over Broadband Usage Fees Wireless Plan Innovation Benefits Consumers & Competition -- Part 15 Broadband Internet Pricing Freedom SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2013-05-13 09:05Please see my latest Daily Caller Op-ed "Wireless Plan Innovation Benefits Consumers & Competition -- here.
* * * * * Broadband Internet Pricing Freedom Research Series Part 1: Netflix' Glass House Temper Tantrum Over Broadband Usage Fees What Do Dish-Sprint, Google Fiber, & T-Mobile’s No Contracts, All Mean?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2013-04-22 04:34Competition is alive and well in the U.S. communications market. Market forces have produced a barrage of big competitive developments in just a few weeks. Dish’s disruptive $25b bid for Sprint could offer consumers a new choice of a lower-price, faster-speed, all-wireless platform for the first time. Google’s disruptive ongoing expansion of Google Fiber from Kansas City to Austin Texas and Provo Utah signals more and new consumers could increasingly enjoy the choice of a new, much-faster, near-comprehensively-integrated broadband offering. And T-Mobile is disrupting in yet another major way with a new maverick wireless pricing model that offers no contract plans and relatively more a la carte pricing. These developments are proof positive why competition is so far superior to regulation. Survival is a powerful motivator to disrupt, differentiate and innovate, just as the opportunity for large profit and market leadership are powerful motivators as well. While regulators slowly fret over how they can solve yesterday’s problems by fiat or opaque subsidy, competition is automatically devising alternative solutions to today’s problems, and inevitably is working on different solutions to tomorrow’s problems. I. Dish-Sprint Pages |