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You are hereCompetitionThe Growing EC-Google Settlement Scandal – An Open Letter to European CommissionersSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2014-03-31 08:58Dear European Commission Official, The more the European Commission learns about the proposed EC-Google competition settlement, the less sense it makes, and the more scandalous it appears. Never has the European Commission been presented with such a controversial, perverse, and unreasonable competition settlement to approve. This is not how the EC’s law enforcement process is supposed to work. Everyone knows that a worthy settlement is a true compromise, where most parties gain something they need, and on balance support it as a reasonable net gain from the status quo. It is telling that virtually no one but Google is supporting this settlement outcome publicly or coming to Google’s defense. That fact should scream that this proposed settlement is not what it is represented to be. Sadly, this particular process and settlement has devolved into an indefensible and perverse spectacle that has brought unwelcome attention and ridicule to a critical EC law enforcement process that must be beyond reproach. The reason the European Commission has yet to disapprove a DGComp proposed settlement, is that the European Commission has never been presented with a toxic settlement that is so perversely: anti-consumer; un-European; worse than the status quo; pro-dominance; tolerant of dominance abuses; and ineffective in achieving its main priority – “quick resolution.” U.S. Wireless Competition Criticism “Believe it or not!”Submitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2014-03-10 14:06With due credit to "Ripley's Believe it or Not!®," so much odd and bizarre is happening in Washington in the "name" of "U.S. wireless competition criticism” that the topic calls for its own collection of: "Believe it or Not!®" oddities. Softbank’s CEO Masayoshi Son, who bought Sprint for $21b in 2013 with public plans “to become the #1 company in the world,” tells U.S. regulators just eight months after he bought Sprint, that Softbank-Sprint cannot compete with either of America’s #1 and #2 wireless providers, Verizon and AT&T, unless Softbank can buy America’s #4 wireless provider -- T-Mobile! FCC’s Open Internet Order Do-over – Key Going Forward TakeawaysSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2014-03-05 14:33As the dust has settled from the D.C. Circuit’s January 14thdecision to vacate and remand the FCC Open Internet Order for another try, and from FCC Chairman Wheeler’s February 19thstatement accepting the court’s invitation to propose open Internet rules that could pass court muster, what does it all this mean going forward? First, we need to glean the key separate baseline takeaways from what the court ruled and also what Chairman Wheeler initially decided. Then we need to put them together to glean what the big going-forward takeaways are. Court Decision Takeaways The Narrowing Net Neutrality Dispute – My Daily Caller Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2014-02-24 14:53Please see my latest Daily Caller op-ed: “The Narrowing Net Neutrality Dispute.”
It is Part 24 of my Broadband Internet Pricing Freedom Series. *** Broadband Internet Pricing Freedom Series Part 1: Netflix' Glass House Temper Tantrum Over Broadband Usage Fees [7-26-11] Part 2: Netflix' Uneconomics [9-6-11] Comcast’s Merger in Perspective – My Daily Caller Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2014-02-19 16:51Anyone interested in some perspective on the over-the-top criticisms of the pending Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger, please read my latest Daily Caller op-ed: “Comcast’s Merger in Perspective.” Don’t Miss Great AEI Report on EU Lagging US in BroadbandSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2014-02-19 10:27Anyone interested in broadband policy should not miss the excellent new research of Roslyn Layton, an AEI Internet economist, who has studied European broadband progress as compared to America’s. Let me flag two big research takeaways that should not be missed.
These findings affirm the wisdom of America’s market-led broadband policy that encourages facilities-based broadband competition over the EU’s lagging, common carrier, monopoly-unbundling, approach to broadband. NetCompetition Statement on Comcast-Time Warner Cable MergerSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2014-02-13 16:27
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 13, 2014
Contact: Scott Cleland 703-217-2407
The Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger is Pro-competitive,
The Communications Marketplace Has Never Been More Competitive,
And American Consumers Have Never Had More Communications Choices
Mobile & Cloud Competition & Innovation are Dynamically Changing Communications
WASHINGTON D.C. – The following quotes on the announcement of the Comcast-Time-Warner Cable merger may be attributed to Scott Cleland, Chairman of NetCompetition:
Government Broadband Overbuilds Are Anticompetitive – Part 5 Big GoverNet seriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2014-02-12 12:23For those interested in municipal broadband overbuilds and their effect on competition, please read my latest Daily Caller op-ed: “Government Broadband Overbuilds Are Anticompetitive.”
*** Big GoverNet research series: Part 1: Cities learning there is no wireless “free lunch” [9-20-07] Part 2: Why the Australian “Fiber Mae” Broadband Model Doesn’t Work for the U.S. [5-13-09] Part 3: Why Broadband is not a Public Utility [8-21-09] How the Google-EC Competition Deal Harms Europe – My Daily Caller Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2014-02-10 21:28NetCompetition Release on Comm Act Update House SubmissionSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2014-01-31 14:53FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 31, 2014 Contact: Scott Cleland 703-217-2407 WASHINGTON D.C. – The following quotes addressing Chairmen Upton & Walden’s requests for input on modernizing the Communications Act may be attributed to Scott Cleland, Chairman of NetCompetition: Pages |