Category Archives: Network Neutrality

I wrote this commentary on a paper by Jonathan Zittrain – Here is his response. Tim, Thanks for your thoughtful comments on my piece. I appreciate your call for outright warfare rather than compromise in many instances ­ that the … Continue reading →

This article on Cellular Carterfone is a humdinger! In Information Week. Meanwhile, I’ve noticed several well-done criticisms of my wireless paper, along with a few funded attacks. All will be answered in version 2.0 of the Cellular Carterfone paper (also … Continue reading →

A note on Net Neutrality in Europe. Europe, unlike the US, has largely maintained open access policies — that is, linesharing rules — for DSL. It also has general anti-discrimination rules for telecom, though their operation is complex. For that … Continue reading →

Kennth Cheung at the University of Florida has released an interesting paper about whether carriers have an incentive to build more bandwidth in a non-net neutral situation. His paper, which he sent me a few months ago, uses game theory … Continue reading →

A new firm is trying to encourage the FCC to let at least some of the forthcoming 700 mHz auction be auctioned to open access bidders – Who cares? In more normal language, the spectrum would be licensed on the … Continue reading →

I am absolutely not the first person to make this point. Let me repeat that. This is not my idea. However, for telecom people, I think it can yield alot to look at the whole NN debate as a debate … Continue reading →

I am finished the beta draft of Wireless Net Neutrality. The paper examines the practices of wireless carriers with an eye toward their effects on consumers and innovation. The intro is posted after the jump.   This paper is being published … Continue reading →

Perhaps I’ve written enough on AT&T for a while — but here is my latest slate piece, Bellwhether: Ma Bell is Back, Should you be afraid? School starts tomorrow.

The proposed AT&T merger agreement has attracted some criticism, most prominently from David Burstein and Susan Crawford (check out also the commentary from David Isenberg and Jeff Pulver.) They believe, in short, that the exceptions in the agreement make it … Continue reading →

As a condition of its merger with BellSouth, AT&T has agreed to an important network neutrality provision for its network. The agreement is here. My commentary, written somewhat formally, follows here: The AT&T Merger Agreement: A Commentary Introduction To the … Continue reading →