Tariffing the Internet: A Response to Harold Feld…
Last month, Larry Spiwak and I released a paper entitled Tariffing the Internet: Pricing Implications of Classifying Broadband as a Title II Telecommunications Service. In this paper (and companion...
View ArticleThe Problems With Henry Waxman’s “Hybrid” Legal Theory…
Last week, Representative Henry Waxman—the ranking Democrat on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee—wrote a letter to Federal Communications Chairman Tom Wheeler where he proposed a new and...
View ArticleTitle II Reclassification and the Price Regulation of Retail Broadband Services…
Last month, Larry Spiwak and I published a paper entitled Tariffing the Internet: Pricing Implications of Classifying Broadband as a Title II Telecommunications Service in which we outlined how the...
View ArticleMr. Wheeler Agrees: It’s The “Termination Market”…
Last Friday, the Wall Street Journal provided a peek at Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler’s latest plan for net neutrality. Under the reported plan, the Chairman intends to divide...
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Will the Virtuous Circle be Unbroken?
Regardless of whether the Federal Communications Commission ultimately reclassifies broadband termination as a Title II telecommunications service or not, the agency will likely justify its efforts to...
View ArticleTariffing the Internet: A Response to Harold Feld (Part Deux)…
On October 2, 2014, Harold Feld of Public Knowledge defiantly declared that net neutrality was not about a “terminating service” provided by broadband providers to edge providers, but rather it’s about...
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2014 Year in Review…
2014 provided fertile soil for those interested in policy research. So with New Years rapidly approaching, I want to uphold tradition and use our last blog post of the year to highlight what we at the...
View ArticleTom Wheeler’s Recent Braggadocio…
Last month, the Phoenix Center released a paper entitled Eroding the Rule of Law: Regulation as Cooperative Bargaining at the FCC. Our paper reveals how the FCC exploits its power to grant or deny...
View ArticleThe Investment Effects of the FCC’s New Asymmetrical Privacy Regime…
Last September, I participated in a conference sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation entitled “The Internet of Everything: Data, Networks and Opportunities.” As part of my presentation,...
View ArticleIn Response to Criticisms of Phoenix Center Research on Net Neutrality…
Quantifying the effect on economic outcomes of the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC”) regulations is vital for good policymaking. Recently, the Commission initiated a Notice of Proposed...
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