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You are hereAT&TFCC’s Netflix Internet Peering Inquiry – Top Ten Questions – Part 17 Netflix SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2014-06-17 17:50
NetCompetition Proposes Competition Framework for House Comm Act UpdateSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2014-06-13 09:47
NetCompetition submitted this proposed communications competition framework in response to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton’s and Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden’s call for input on defining competition and competition principles for a potential Communications Act Update next Congress.
Modernizing the Communications Act – Modern is Consumer-Driven Competition
Obsolete presumption of telephone and cable monopolies: The core policy problem with monopoly-premised communications law is that it is hostile to the reality of a vibrantly competitive communications marketplace. Exposing Netflix’ Biggest Net Neutrality Deceptions – Part 16 Netflix Research SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2014-06-05 15:22
If Netflix’ position on net neutrality was justified on the merits, why does Netflix need to say so many deceptive things that are demonstrably untrue, in order to justify its case for its version of net neutrality? Google’s Title II Utility Regulation Risks – An Open Letter to InvestorsSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2014-06-03 17:39Unregulated Google is increasingly pushing for maximal FCC net neutrality and price regulation of its direct broadband competitors, potentially via FCC reclassification of broadband as a Title II telephone utility service. Top Ten Reasons to Oppose Broadband Utility Regulation – Part 50 Open Internet Order SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2014-05-29 08:55
Please see my latest Daily Caller op-ed: “Top Ten Reasons to Oppose Broadband Utility Regulation.” It provides a great overview of the best arguments why the FCC reclassifying broadband as a Title II monopoly telephone service, is a very bad idea.
*** FCC Open Internet Order Series Part 1: The Many Vulnerabilities of an Open Internet [9-24-09] Open Letter to Internet Association on Broadband Utility RegulationSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2014-05-26 22:22
Dear Executives of Internet Association Companies, Have you thought through the global implications of your businesses’ public lobbying for regulating broadband like a public telephone utility? Possibly you are unaware that “The French government said it would push for a new European law later this year to classify Google and other Web giants like public utilities, forcing them to guarantee access to all services like phone operators. … We don’t want to become a digital colony of global Internet giants” said the French Economy Minister, per Wall Street Journal reporting. As members of the global Internet giant association, and as global companies with large majorities of your current or future revenues coming from overseas, it could be beneficial to better think through the global implications of your high-profile policy support for new broadband utility regulation in the U.S. Top Ten Reasons Broadband Is Not a Public Utility -- My Daily Caller Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2014-05-20 18:02
Please see my latest Daily Caller op-ed: “Top Ten Reasons Broadband is not a Public Utility.”
*** FCC Open Internet Order Series Part 1: The Many Vulnerabilities of an Open Internet [9-24-09] NetCompetition Statement on AT&T-DirecTV MergerSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Sun, 2014-05-18 22:30FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 18, 2014 Contact: Scott Cleland 703-217-2407
The AT&T-DirecTV Merger Increases Competition & Consumer Choice, Providing: A New Stronger Competitive Alternative to Cable’s Bundle; and Net Neutrality Rhetoric: “Believe it or not!”Submitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2014-05-16 11:51
With due credit to "Ripley's Believe it or Not!®," so much odd and bizarre is happening in Washington in the "name" of “net neutrality” that the topic calls for its own collection of: "Believe it or Not!®" oddities.
INTERNET FAST LANES:
Net Neutrality activists who have long condemned the FCC for not making the Internet fast enough now condemn the FCC for proposing to make the Internet faster!
Google and Amazon oppose the FCC enabling them to pay for fast-lane delivery of their online services when they both are launching very-costly, same-day, home delivery services!
NetCompetition Statement on FCC Incentive Auction RulesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2014-05-15 17:47
NetCompetition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 15, 2014
Contact: Scott Cleland --703-217-2407
FCC Rules Take the “Auction” & “Incentives” out of the Supposed “Incentive Auction”
Auction will under-earn with FCC thwarting market forces by picking winners & losers Pages |