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You are hereRegulationWill the New FCC Chair be a Modernist or a Nostalgist? -- My Daily Caller Op-ed -- Part 4 of Modernization Consensus SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2013-04-02 15:08Please read my latest Daily Caller Op-ed: "Will the New FCC Chair Be a Modernist or Nostalgist?" -- here.
* * * * * Modernization Consensus Series (Note: This research series previews strategic developments that could encourage consensus to modernize obsolete communications law.) FCC's Obsolete Wireless Competition Mindset -- my Daily Caller op-ed -- Part 6 Government Spectrum Waste Fraud & Abuse seriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2013-03-26 17:35Please see my new Daily Caller op-ed "FCC’s Obsolete Wireless Competition Mindset" -- here.
* * * * * Government Spectrum Waste Fraud and Abuse Research Series Why IP Interconnection Would Break the Internet -- My Daily Caller Op-ed -- Part 18 Obsolete Communications Law SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2013-03-15 13:01Don't miss Litan-Singer book: The Need for SpeedSubmitted by admin on Thu, 2013-02-28 15:14Kudos to Robert Litan and Hal Singer for the clarity-of-thought and free market policy wisdom in their new book: “The Need for Speed: A New Framework for Telecommunications Policy for the 21st Century.” Here is the link to the book at Amazon. Oops! Professor Crawford’s Model Broadband Nation, Korea, Doesn’t Support Net Neutrality & Favors Market ConcentrationSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2013-02-26 19:01As Professor Crawford continues her book tour advocating for a broadband utopia of an ultra-fast, government-subsidized, public-utility-regulated, broadband network with net neutrality, the supposed-facts undergirding her proposal, are crumbling away.
Big Internet’s Most Special Interests – Part 7: Internet as Oz SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2013-02-20 14:02If the Internet Association is presumptuous enough to unilaterally deem itself “the unified voice of the Internet economy,” I guess we should not be surprised that on the same day that our duly-elected President delivered the State of the Union, the unelected President of the Internet Association would be presumptuous enough to deliver the “State of the Internet.” ITU in Search of Relevance in Internet Age -- Part 17 Obsolete Communications Law SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2013-02-19 10:19Please see my Daily Caller Op-ed about the latest ITU argument for asserting control of the Internet: "ITU in search of relevance in the Internet Age" -- here. Developing Fundamental Consensus for the IP Transition -- Part 2 Modernization Consensus SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2013-01-29 18:15Please read my latest Daily Caller Op-ed: "Developing Fundamental Consensus for the IP Transition" -- here." Importantly, it builds upon Public Knowledge's "Five Fundamentals" framework in its PSTN comments to the FCC.
* * * * * Modernization Consensus Series Supreme Court's Likely Leashing of "Chevron Deference" Is FCC Game Changer -- My Daily Caller Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2013-01-08 13:21Please don't miss my Daily Caller Op-ed: "Supreme Court's Likely Leashing of 'Chevron Deference' Is FCC Game Changer" -- here. The Uneconomics of Data Cap Price Regulation and Legislation -- Part 14 Broadband Internet Pricing Freedom SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2012-12-20 18:00
The latest attempts to subvert the competitive success of the current free market broadband Internet to advance the fantasy of abundance uneconomics and cost-less Internet commons is the New America Foundation's (NAF) white paper entitled: "Capping the Nation's Broadband Future? Dwindling competition is fueling the rise of increasingly costly and restrictive Internet usage caps;" and Senator Wyden's proposed "Data Cap Integrity Act" to have the FCC effectively price regulate broadband usage and ban traffic discrimination a la "net neutrality." In a nutshell, the NAF paper argues competition, usage-based pricing and the profit motive ill-serve the broadband Internet consumer; thus the Government should prohibit the market-pricing model of broadband data caps. In a nutshell, Senator Wyden's proposed legislation argues that broadband usage and tiered pricing harm consumers by discouraging Internet use, discriminating against high-bandwidth services, and inhibiting innovation because ISPs make money on heavy broadband usage. Thus the Government should price regulate competitive broadband companies to prevent extraction of "monopoly rents." Pages |