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05/06/2013
The Battle For IPTV Domination
The promise of IPTV – TV delivered using the Internet Protocol – was to bring all the utility and benefits of the Internet to the delivery of video services.
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04/25/2013
DoJ, FCC Pick Wireless Winners, Losers
The Department of Justice (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 spotlight their reticence for wireless competition policy and market-driven spectrum auctions. They also show a strong predilection for preemptive and interventionist wireless […]
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04/16/2013
DISH-Sprint: The Folly Of Micromanaging Mobile Internet Competition<!—â /* Font Defini
The gap between the competitive realities of the mobile broadband market and the anachronistic, industrial policy mindset of Federal regulators has never been more baldly on display than over the past few days. On Friday, April 12, the Department of Justice explained in a filing at the FCC about the need to “improve the competitive […]
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04/08/2013
The Financial Facts Of Broadband
Lately, some public-policy analysis has lacked an understanding of basic finance and simple math. If not bad, math then it is a demonstration of complete ignorance or willful deception. Some have argued that the cable industry reaps a 97-percent profit, a patently absurd claim. Others have cited various percentages and dollar figures, but most all fail to […]
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04/08/2013
The Financial Facts Of Broadband
Lately, some public-policy analysis has lacked an understanding of basic finance and simple math. If not bad math then it is a demonstration of complete ignorance or willful deception. Some have argued that the cable industry reaps a 97-percent profit, a patently absurd claim. Others have sited various percentages and dollar figures, but most all fail to […]
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03/27/2013
NTCA Survey: Regulatory Uncertainty Impacting Carriers
Three-quarters of respondents to NTCA’s most recent broadband survey cited regulatory uncertainty as an impediment to broadband deployment, second only to deployment cost overall. In spite of the uncertainty, 74 percent of respondents indicated they currently offer fiber to the home to some portion of their customer base, up from 64% in 2011. The pace […]