Video: Scott Cleland on Why We Need a New Communications Law
Scott Cleland has released a new video detailing the pressing need in America for a new communications law.
Tagged: competition
Government Broadband Overbuilds Are Anti-competitive
Governments do not “compete” with companies. Governments tax, limit, police and judge companies. So when governments try and offer a similar service that private companies have long provided consumers, these governments[...]
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Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
A Broadband System Upgrade
As has been widely reported today, Comcast has proposed a $45.2 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable Inc., a merger of the number one and number four video service providers[...]
Economics · Government · Liberty · Random
Giving Thanks for the Right to Retail
Retail stores are opening even earlier than usual for their annual Black Friday sales this year, in an intensifying competition for scarce consumer dollars. Big retailers such as Target, Kohl’s, Macy’s, Best Buy, Sears, and Toys R Us will open Thursday night and feature “doorbuster” bargains to lure tryptophan-laden customers into their emporia (if they can fit through the doors).
Featured · Liberty · Media · Regulation
YouTube is the ‘ultimate à la carte’
Consumers don’t need a government mandate on everyone to get what they already can choose for themselves. No legislation needed.
Economics · Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
The New U.S. Spectrum Policy Has Big Problems
Since Congress authorized auctions as the preferred mechanism to enable spectrum to find its highest use twenty years ago, U.S. spectrum policy has been market-driven – until now.
Economics · Featured · Internet/Telecom · Politics
The FCC/DOJ’s one gigahertz spectrum charade
The FCC and DOJ do not want to look ridiculous applying a spectrum cap to Verizon and AT&T and not Sprint when the FCC’s own Wireless Competition report shows that Sprint controls roughly twice as many MHz per population as either Verizon or AT&T.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs
More Legal Trouble for FCC’s Open Internet Order & Net Neutrality
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals 3-0 decision to overturn the FCC in Comcast v. FCC/Tennis Channel spells more trouble for the ultimate legality of the FCC’s Open Internet Order.[...]
Google’s Antitrust Rap Sheet Updated
Three new Google antitrust developments in just the last few weeks warrant an update to Google’s ominously-growing Antitrust Rap Sheet.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Media
America’s Private Video Market Success
It’s hard to be a “public interest” group when private interests better serve the public. Free Press, which effectively defines the “public interest” as being against private interests in media, communications[...]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
Wireless Competition: What’s the Data Say?
The CTIA just released its semi-annual statistics on the wireless industry’s performance, and its bad news for all those supposed data-driven, pro-regulation proponents who are in search of evidence or data to justify regulating wireless or wireless spectrum holdings.
The FCC Transition?
Timing is everything. That’s why, Tom Wheeler, the President’s nominee for Chairman of the FCC, could become one of the most consequential FCC leaders in American history.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs
EU-Google: Too Powerful to Prosecute? The Problems with Politically Enabling Google
The EU blinked. It’s obvious the EU does not want a high-profile political confrontation with Google over a search monopoly abuse enforcement action. Last May, when the Competition authorities announced[...]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
What Do Dish-Sprint, Google Fiber, & T-Mobile’s No Contracts, All Mean?
Competition 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[...]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
DOJ Joins FCC in Picking Wireless Winners and Losers
The DOJ has joined the FCC in trying to pick market winners (Sprint/T-Mobile) and losers (Verizon/AT&T) in the U.S. wireless market. Recent public filings by the DOJ and the FCC[...]
Economics · Featured · Health Care
Look Out Below, The Obamacare Chaos Is Coming
The biggest political problem faced by so-called “liberals” and so-called “progressives” in President Obama’s second term is how to prevent voters from holding them politically responsible as the public comes[...]
Environment/Energy · Regulation
Proposed Regulations Could Stall Texas Electric Deregulation
Deregulation of the electric industry has proven effective in many states at creating greater competition and lowering prices for consumers. Nowhere is this more true than in Texas. Texas has[...]
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