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He has provided updates to two major communications treatises: Modern Communications Law (West Publishing) and All About Cable (Law Journal Press).  </p> <p>  Before accepting an academic appointment, Professor Frieden served as Deputy Director International Relations for Motorola Satellite Communications, Inc.  In that capacity, he provided a broad range of business development, strategic planning, policy analysis and regulatory functions for the IRIDIUM mobile satellite venture.</p> <p>  Professor Frieden has held senior policy making positions in international telecommunications at the Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.  In the private sector, he practiced law in Washington, D.C., and served as Assistant General Counsel at PTAT System, Inc. where he handled corporate, transactional and regulatory issues for the world鈥檚 first private undersea fiber optic cable company.</p> <p>  Professor Frieden holds a B.A., with distinction, from the University of Pennsylvania (1977) and a J.D. from the University of Virginia (1980).</p> </div> <div id="links" class="pipedLinks"> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/r/m/rmf5/" title="New window will open - http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/r/m/rmf5/" target="_blank">Website</a></li> <li><a href="http://telefrieden.blogspot.com/" title="New window will open - http://telefrieden.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.psu.edu" title="New window will open - http://www.psu.edu" target="_blank">Company</a></li> <li><a href="http://twitter.com/rmf5" title="New window will open - http://twitter.com/rmf5" target="_blank">Twitter</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rob-frieden/0/2a1/995" title="New window will open - http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rob-frieden/0/2a1/995" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a></li> </ul> </div> <p id="cc"> Except where otherwise noted, all postings by Rob Frieden on CircleID are licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nd /2.5/" class="blue">Creative Commons License</a>. </p> </div>  <div id="headerSubNav"> <ul> <li id="current"><a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982">Featured Blogs (41)</a></li> <li ><a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982/comments/">Comments (15)</a></li> </ul> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div>  <div class="container2c"> <div class="colWrapper"> <div class="colA"> <div class="colPad"> <h2>Featured Blogs</h2> <div class="postList" style="padding-bottom:30px;"> <h3 style="padding-top:0;margin-top:0;border:none;"><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/11-information-economy-policy-reversals-coming-to-a-marketplace-near-you">11 Information Economy Policy Reversals Coming to a Marketplace Near You!</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/artificial-intelligence" class="red">Artificial Intelligence</a>,  <a href="/topics/broadband" class="red">Broadband</a>,  <a href="/topics/cybersecurity" class="red">Cybersecurity</a>,  <a href="/topics/internet_governance" class="red">Internet Governance</a>,  <a href="/topics/law" class="red">Law</a>,  <a href="/topics/net_neutrality" class="red">Net Neutrality</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/satellite-internet" class="red">Satellite Internet</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,  <a href="/topics/wireless" class="red">Wireless</a>,</div> <p> In the wake of the election, sweeping policy shifts in the information economy are set to accelerate. Expect fast-tracked FCC reforms, Starlink subsidies, and AI-driven oversight to redefine media, tech, and regulatory landscapes. From relaxed antitrust to intensified media control, these eleven reversals signal a move toward deregulation and Chicago School libertarianism, with lasting impacts on U.S. markets and governance. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/11-information-economy-policy-reversals-coming-to-a-marketplace-near-you" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Nov 12, 2024</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 8,076</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20240802-role-of-chronic-radio-interoperability-impediments-in-the-butler-pa-assassination-attempt">The Role of Chronic Radio Interoperability Impediments in the Butler, PA Assassination Attempt</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/cybersecurity" class="red">Cybersecurity</a>,  <a href="/topics/law" class="red">Law</a>,  <a href="/topics/mobile_internet" class="red">Mobile Internet</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,  <a href="/topics/wireless" class="red">Wireless</a>,</div> <p> There are many inconvenient truths about radio spectrum sharing and transceiver interoperability that require full ventilation and resolution. Spectrum users want exclusive access and - news flash - they do not like to share! Campaign events, like the Trump Bulter, PA rally, require short notice, forced cooperation between and among federal, state, and local law enforcement officers, as well as a variety of other government agencies. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20240802-role-of-chronic-radio-interoperability-impediments-in-the-butler-pa-assassination-attempt" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Aug 02, 2024</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 10,753</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20240430-how-much-did-the-us-wireless-carriers-earn-from-location-information-aggregators">How Much Did the U.S. Wireless Carriers “Earn” From “Location Information Aggregators”?</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/artificial-intelligence" class="red">Artificial Intelligence</a>,  <a href="/topics/cybersecurity" class="red">Cybersecurity</a>,  <a href="/topics/law" class="red">Law</a>,  <a href="/topics/networks" class="red">Networks</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/privacy" class="red">Privacy</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,</div> <p> The FCC lawfully fined U.S. facilities-based wireless carriers nearly $200 million for selling highly intrusive location data about subscribers without their "opt-in" consent. In Section 222 of the Communications Act, Congress comprehensively specified how the carriers bore an affirmative duty of care not to disclose clearly defined Customer Proprietary Information ("CPNI"). The Act explicitly required the FCC, and no other agency, to protect telecommunications consumers. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20240430-how-much-did-the-us-wireless-carriers-earn-from-location-information-aggregators" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Apr 30, 2024</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 10,829</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20240219-a-brief-primer-on-anti-satellite-warfare-tactics">A Brief Primer on Anti-Satellite Warfare Tactics</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/cyberattack" class="red">Cyberattack</a>,  <a href="/topics/cybersecurity" class="red">Cybersecurity</a>,  <a href="/topics/law" class="red">Law</a>,  <a href="/topics/networks" class="red">Networks</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,  <a href="/topics/threat-intelligence" class="red">Threat Intelligence</a>,  <a href="/topics/wireless" class="red">Wireless</a>,</div> <p> Satellites make it possible for governments to provide essential services, such as national defense, navigation, and weather forecasting. Private ventures use satellites to offer highly desired services that include video program distribution, telecommunications, and Internet access. The Russian launch of a satellite, with nuclear power and the likely ability to disable satellites, underscores how satellites are quite vulnerable to both natural and manmade ruin. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20240219-a-brief-primer-on-anti-satellite-warfare-tactics" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Feb 19, 2024</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 15,013</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20240214-lies-damn-lies-and-selective-statistics-about-our-great-wireless-marketplace">Lies, Damn Lies, and Selective Statistics About Our Great Wireless Marketplace Thanks to the T-Mobile</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/broadband" class="red">Broadband</a>,  <a href="/topics/law" class="red">Law</a>,  <a href="/topics/mobile_internet" class="red">Mobile Internet</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,  <a href="/topics/wireless" class="red">Wireless</a>,</div> <p> In the February 13th edition of the Wall Street Journal, Professor Thomas W. Hazlett offers a breathless endorsement of market concentration with the T-Mobile acquisition of Sprint, his go-to example. Apparently, mergers and acquisitions benefit consumers because they enhance competition and generate all sorts of positive outcomes that could not possibly have occurred but for the reduction in the number of industry players. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20240214-lies-damn-lies-and-selective-statistics-about-our-great-wireless-marketplace" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Feb 14, 2024</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 6,719</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20190310_five_inconvenient_facts_about_the_migration_to_5g_wireless">Five Inconvenient Facts about the Migration to 5G Wireless</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/cybersecurity" class="red">Cybersecurity</a>,  <a href="/topics/networks" class="red">Networks</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/wireless" class="red">Wireless</a>,</div> <p> An unprecedented disinformation campaign purposefully distorts what consumers and governments understand about the upcoming fifth generation of wireless broadband technology. A variety of company executives and their sponsored advocates want us to believe that the United States already has lost the race to 5G global market supremacy and that it can regain it only with the assistance of a compliant government and a gullible public. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20190310_five_inconvenient_facts_about_the_migration_to_5g_wireless" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Mar 10, 2019</li> <li>Comments: 1</li> <li>Views: 10,388</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20180701_comcast_sneaks_in_another_billing_line_item_earns_1_billion">Comcast Sneaks in Another Billing Line Item and “Earns” an Additional $1 Billion</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/law" class="red">Law</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,</div> <p> My Comcast bill arrived today with a sneaky new $2.68 charge, $2.50 for leasing one (and only one) set-top box and $0.18 for the remote. This new billing line item, like the many others Comcast has introduced, adds to its bottom line with no additional capital expenditure. It shows how resisting the obligation to return to accepting set-top box free, "cable ready" sets was a smart strategy. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20180701_comcast_sneaks_in_another_billing_line_item_earns_1_billion" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Jul 01, 2018</li> <li>Comments: 1</li> <li>Views: 11,291</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20171206_restoring_internet_freedom_for_whom">“Restoring” Internet Freedom for Whom?</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/access_providers" class="red">Access Providers</a>,  <a href="/topics/broadband" class="red">Broadband</a>,  <a href="/topics/internet_governance" class="red">Internet Governance</a>,  <a href="/topics/law" class="red">Law</a>,  <a href="/topics/net_neutrality" class="red">Net Neutrality</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,  <a href="/topics/wireless" class="red">Wireless</a>,</div> <p> Recently, a colleague in the Bellisario College of Communications asked me who gets a freedom boost from the FCC's upcoming dismantling of network neutrality safeguards. He noted that Chairman Pai made sure that the title of the FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking is: Restoring Internet Freedom. My colleague wanted to know whose freedom the FCC previously subverted and how removing consumer safeguards promotes freedom. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20171206_restoring_internet_freedom_for_whom" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Dec 06, 2017</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 9,896</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20170519_hidden_in_plain_sight_fcc_chair_pai_consolidate_wireless_market">Hidden in Plain Sight: FCC Chairman Pai’s Strategy to Consolidate the U.S. Wireless Marketplace</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/access_providers" class="red">Access Providers</a>,  <a href="/topics/broadband" class="red">Broadband</a>,  <a href="/topics/law" class="red">Law</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,  <a href="/topics/wireless" class="red">Wireless</a>,</div> <p> While couched in noble terms of promoting competition, innovation and freedom, the FCC soon will combine two initiatives that will enhance the likelihood that Sprint and T-Mobile will stop operating as separate companies within 18 months. In the same manner at the regulatory approval of airline mergers, the FCC will make all sorts of conclusions sorely lacking empirical evidence and common sense. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20170519_hidden_in_plain_sight_fcc_chair_pai_consolidate_wireless_market" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>May 19, 2017</li> <li>Comments: 2</li> <li>Views: 11,316</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20161130_likely_and_behind_the_scenes_changes_at_the_fcc">Likely and Behind the Scenes Changes at the FCC</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/broadband" class="red">Broadband</a>,  <a href="/topics/law" class="red">Law</a>,  <a href="/topics/net_neutrality" class="red">Net Neutrality</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,</div> <p> It should come as no surprise that the Federal Communications Commission will substantially change its regulatory approach, wingspan and philosophy under a Trump appointed Chairman. One can readily predict that the new FCC will largely undo what has transpired in previous years. However, that conclusion warrants greater calibration. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20161130_likely_and_behind_the_scenes_changes_at_the_fcc" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Nov 30, 2016</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 8,293</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20160503_broadband_carrier_quandary_exploit_bandwidth_scarcity_or_reduce_it">Broadband Carrier Quandary: Exploit Bandwidth Scarcity, or Reduce It?</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/broadband" class="red">Broadband</a>,  <a href="/topics/networks" class="red">Networks</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,  <a href="/topics/wireless" class="red">Wireless</a>,</div> <p> Comcast enhanced the value position of its broadband subscriptions by increasing the monthly data allowance to 1 Terrabyte (1000 Gigabytes). See Comcast Announcement. As an independent, unsponsored researcher, I can say "Thank You Comcast" without adverse consequences and only a bit of irony. This company does much to displease, but an expanded data allowance offers a winning proposition. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20160503_broadband_carrier_quandary_exploit_bandwidth_scarcity_or_reduce_it" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>May 03, 2016</li> <li>Comments: 2</li> <li>Views: 8,826</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20150305_comcast_streaming_of_nbc_broadcast_content">Comcast Streaming of NBC Broadcast Content</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/access_providers" class="red">Access Providers</a>,  <a href="/topics/broadband" class="red">Broadband</a>,  <a href="/topics/net_neutrality" class="red">Net Neutrality</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,</div> <p> NBC soon will join the ranks of content providers offering a streaming option to cord cutters and mobile consumers. This future service warrants special attention, because two corporate affiliates within the Comcast family will participate in many parts of the United States: Comcast as the last mile, "retail" ISP and Comcast the parent of NBC-Universal. Operating as an ISP, Comcast has at least three pricing/interconnection options, each of which raise questions relating to network neutrality... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20150305_comcast_streaming_of_nbc_broadcast_content" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Mar 05, 2015</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 8,801</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20150205_whats_certain_about_the_regulatory_uncertainty_debate">What’s Certain About the Regulatory Uncertainty Debate</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/net_neutrality" class="red">Net Neutrality</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,</div> <p> Incumbent carriers, such as AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, have made countless "curtains for the Free World" assertions in the Network Neutrality debate. They claim that if the FCC reclassifies as common carriage aspects of Internet access, it will create "regulatory uncertainty" and "disincentive investment." Not one of the countless sponsored researchers funded by incumbents has provided a shred of empirical evidence to support these assertions. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20150205_whats_certain_about_the_regulatory_uncertainty_debate" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Feb 05, 2015</li> <li>Comments: 3</li> <li>Views: 8,732</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20140423_better_than_best_efforts_routing_of_mission_critical_traffic_fcc">Better Than Best Efforts Routing of Mission Critical Traffic and the FCC</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/access_providers" class="red">Access Providers</a>,  <a href="/topics/broadband" class="red">Broadband</a>,  <a href="/topics/net_neutrality" class="red">Net Neutrality</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/web" class="red">Web</a>,</div> <p> It appears that the FCC will permit exceptions to the standard, plain vanilla best efforts routing standard for Internet traffic, such as the paid peering arrangement recently negotiated between Comcast and Netflix. In both academic and applied papers I have supported this option, with several major conditions... With no opposition that I have seen, companies like Akamai offer better than best efforts routing of "mission critical" traffic from content source to last mile, "retail" Internet Service Providers. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20140423_better_than_best_efforts_routing_of_mission_critical_traffic_fcc" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Apr 24, 2014</li> <li>Comments: 1</li> <li>Views: 8,096</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20140322_netflix_has_buyers_remorse_over_paid_peering_deal_with_comcast">Netflix Has Buyer’s Remorse Over Its Paid Peering Deal With Comcast</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/access_providers" class="red">Access Providers</a>,  <a href="/topics/net_neutrality" class="red">Net Neutrality</a>,  <a href="/topics/networks" class="red">Networks</a>,</div> <p> Soon after capitulating to Comcast's surcharge demand for improved treatment of its traffic, Netflix got better downstream delivery speeds. Apparently Comcast did not have to undertake a major bandwidth expansion program. Much to the immediate relief of Netflix, Comcast merely needed to allocate more ports for Netflix traffic. So with a reallocation of available bandwidth, Comcast solved Netflix's quality of service dilemma apparently without degrading service to anyone else, upstream or downstream. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20140322_netflix_has_buyers_remorse_over_paid_peering_deal_with_comcast" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Mar 22, 2014</li> <li>Comments: 1</li> <li>Views: 10,582</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20140213_comcast_twc_why_compete_and_innovate_when_you_can_buy_market_share">Comcast-TWC: Why Compete and Innovate When You Can Buy Market Share?</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/broadband" class="red">Broadband</a>,  <a href="/topics/iptv" class="red">IPTV</a>,  <a href="/topics/law" class="red">Law</a>,  <a href="/topics/net_neutrality" class="red">Net Neutrality</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,</div> <p> Expect a charm offensive as Comcast and scores of sponsored researchers explain how acquiring Time Warner Cable will promote competition and enhance consumer welfare. You might not hear too much about two traditional concerns remedied by actual facilities-based competition: incentives to innovate and reduce prices. Comcast will frame its acquisition as necessary to achieve even greater scale to compete with other sources of video content and maybe to compete with the limited other sources of broadband access. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20140213_comcast_twc_why_compete_and_innovate_when_you_can_buy_market_share" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Feb 13, 2014</li> <li>Comments: 3</li> <li>Views: 16,647</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20120615_about_that_second_third_and_fourth_wireless_attachment">About That Second, Third and Fourth Wireless “Attachment”</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/mobile_internet" class="red">Mobile Internet</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,  <a href="/topics/wireless" class="red">Wireless</a>,</div> <p> There is some good news about the decision by Verizon Wireless to offer shared monthly data plans. But there could be a lot more if the FCC applied its Carterfone policy. That policy gave consumers the power to decide what and how many devices to attach to a network connection. If Carterfone applied, consumers could use multiple devices to access a network subscription, albeit perhaps not at the same time. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20120615_about_that_second_third_and_fourth_wireless_attachment" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Jun 15, 2012</li> <li>Comments: 3</li> <li>Views: 9,985</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20120509_toll_free_broadband_service_double_billing_ripoff_or">“Toll Free” Broadband Service: Double Billing Ripoff Or Better Than Best Efforts Premium Option?</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/access_providers" class="red">Access Providers</a>,  <a href="/topics/broadband" class="red">Broadband</a>,  <a href="/topics/mobile_internet" class="red">Mobile Internet</a>,  <a href="/topics/net_neutrality" class="red">Net Neutrality</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,</div> <p> Representatives of both AT&T and Verizon have stated that their companies will soon offer "toll free" broadband services. So far they have not provided much detail, but the prospect for customer and content provider surcharges should trigger concern, even outside the context of the network neutrality debate. First let's consider the frame the carrier reps use: "Toll Free." This is an old school "Bellhead" reference... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20120509_toll_free_broadband_service_double_billing_ripoff_or" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>May 09, 2012</li> <li>Comments: 1</li> <li>Views: 10,508</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20111223_how_att_and_verizon_further_consolidated_wireless_marketplace">How AT&T and Verizon Further Consolidated the Wireless Marketplace While Most Weren’t Looking</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,  <a href="/topics/wireless" class="red">Wireless</a>,</div> <p> Before anyone claims victory for the consumer in AT&T's abandonment of its "swinging for the fence" gambit to buy T-Mobile's market share and spectrum, consider what did not make many headlines this week. Both AT&T and Verizon substantially shored up their spectrum stocks with major deals with Qualcomm and several cable companies respectively. Solid hits for both carriers: not homeruns, but very strategic singles and doubles. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20111223_how_att_and_verizon_further_consolidated_wireless_marketplace" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Dec 23, 2011</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 8,849</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/new_old_and_forgotten_frames_in_the_network_neutrality_debate">New, Old and Forgotten Frames in the Network Neutrality Debate</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/access_providers" class="red">Access Providers</a>,  <a href="/topics/broadband" class="red">Broadband</a>,  <a href="/topics/net_neutrality" class="red">Net Neutrality</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,</div> <p> One key reason for confusion about Network Neutrality lies in the many different and inconsistent frames used to shape the debate. The Tea Party has entered the fray by characterizing the matter primarily in terms of freedom. Republicans decry the "job killing" impact of the FCC's rules. Network Neutrality advocates appear ambivalent whether the FCC has capitulated to special interests, or shaped a pragmatic compromise. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/new_old_and_forgotten_frames_in_the_network_neutrality_debate" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Jan 06, 2011</li> <li>Comments: 7</li> <li>Views: 11,995</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20101209_no_free_lunch_in_internet_peering_or_transit">No Free Lunch in Internet Peering or Transit</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/broadband" class="red">Broadband</a>,  <a href="/topics/iptv" class="red">IPTV</a>,  <a href="/topics/law" class="red">Law</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,</div> <p> Like many of you, I am keenly following the Comcast-Level 3 dispute and am trying to make sense of it all. The dispute confirms several universal principles about Internet traffic routing that have passed the test of time. ... Consumers pay Internet Service Providers ("ISPs") a monthly subscription with the expectation that the fee covers access to available content, i.e., the conduit. As the World Wide Web evolves and content options diversify to include full motion video, consumers simply expect their ISPs to make sure the download distribution pipes are sufficiently robust to handle high bandwidth requirements and commensurately large monthly download volume. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20101209_no_free_lunch_in_internet_peering_or_transit" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Dec 09, 2010</li> <li>Comments: 1</li> <li>Views: 11,434</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20101129_comcasts_demand_for_a_video_surcharge_from_its_level_3_peer">Comcast’s Demand for a Video Surcharge From Its Level 3 “Peer”</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/access_providers" class="red">Access Providers</a>,  <a href="/topics/broadband" class="red">Broadband</a>,  <a href="/topics/net_neutrality" class="red">Net Neutrality</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,  <a href="/topics/voip" class="red">VoIP</a>,  <a href="/topics/wireless" class="red">Wireless</a>,</div> <p> According to Level 3, a major long haul Internet Service Provider, Comcast has demanded a "recurring fee" when Level 3 hands off movie and other high capacity video traffic for delivery by Comcast to one of the cable company's subscribers. This demand warrants scrutiny, perhaps less in the context of Network Neutrality and more in terms of further diversification (unraveling) of the peering process. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20101129_comcasts_demand_for_a_video_surcharge_from_its_level_3_peer" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Nov 30, 2010</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 9,764</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20100809_good_bad_and_the_ugly_in_the_google_verizon_legislative_framework">The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in the Google-Verizon Legislative Framework</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/access_providers" class="red">Access Providers</a>,  <a href="/topics/broadband" class="red">Broadband</a>,  <a href="/topics/net_neutrality" class="red">Net Neutrality</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,  <a href="/topics/wireless" class="red">Wireless</a>,</div> <p> Google and Verizon have developed a "Proposal" on Internet access which I am sure they expect to serve as a template, starting point and frame of reference going forward. In light of the FCC's judicial reversal in the <em>Comcast</em> case, the absence of substantive progress at the FCC and the unlikelihood of congressional action, two major stakeholder can and have taken the lead. It should come as no surprise that Verizon and Google have emphasized and begrudgingly compromised on their corporate interests. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20100809_good_bad_and_the_ugly_in_the_google_verizon_legislative_framework" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Aug 09, 2010</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 9,316</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/about_those_mission_critical_bits">About Those “Mission Critical” Bits</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/access_providers" class="red">Access Providers</a>,  <a href="/topics/broadband" class="red">Broadband</a>,  <a href="/topics/iptv" class="red">IPTV</a>,  <a href="/topics/net_neutrality" class="red">Net Neutrality</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,</div> <p> News that Google and Verizon are negotiating "better than best efforts" Internet routing probably comes across as a betrayal of sorts to network neutrality advocates. Bear in mind that Information Service Providers ("ISPs") do not file public contracts known as tariffs and have the freedom to negotiate deals with individual clients. On the other hand ISPs, regardless of their FCC regulatory classification, cannot engage in unfair trade practices that achieve anticompetitive goals such a tilting the competitive playing field in favor of a corporate affiliate, or special third party. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/about_those_mission_critical_bits" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Aug 05, 2010</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 12,055</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20100506_network_neutrality_fcc_regulation_of_convergent_operators">Network Neutrality and the FCC’s Inability to Calibrate Regulation of Convergent Operators</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/access_providers" class="red">Access Providers</a>,  <a href="/topics/iptv" class="red">IPTV</a>,  <a href="/topics/net_neutrality" class="red">Net Neutrality</a>,  <a href="/topics/p2p" class="red">P2P</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,  <a href="/topics/voip" class="red">VoIP</a>,</div> <p> For administrative convenience and not as required by law, the FCC likes to apply an either/or single regulatory classification to convergent operators. Having classified ISPs as information service providers, the Commission unsuccessfully sought to sanction Comcast's meddling with subscribers' peer-to-peer traffic. Now Chairman Genachowski wants to further narrow and nuance regulatory oversight without changing the organic information service classification. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20100506_network_neutrality_fcc_regulation_of_convergent_operators" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>May 06, 2010</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 18,078</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/more_available_wireless_spectrum_and_higher_market_entry_barriers">More Available Wireless Spectrum and Higher Market Entry Barriers</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/broadband" class="red">Broadband</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/white_space" class="red">White Space</a>,  <a href="/topics/wireless" class="red">Wireless</a>,</div> <p> The tremendous demand for, and profitability of mobile telephony supports legislative and regulatory efforts to refarm spectrum with an eye toward reallocating as much as possible for wireless telephony and data services. But there is a downside that no one seems to acknowledge. In light of past FCC practice and the behavior of incumbent wireless carriers I expect two anticompetitive outcomes to occur with the onset of any more spectrum. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/more_available_wireless_spectrum_and_higher_market_entry_barriers" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Mar 03, 2010</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 13,818</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/wireless_voip_loss_leader_or_upselling_strategy">Wireless VoIP: Loss Leader or Upselling Strategy?</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/access_providers" class="red">Access Providers</a>,  <a href="/topics/mobile_internet" class="red">Mobile Internet</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,  <a href="/topics/voip" class="red">VoIP</a>,  <a href="/topics/wireless" class="red">Wireless</a>,</div> <p> Verizon Wireless' decision to allow their subscribers to access Skype raises a question about strategy. Is Verizon leveraging Skype access as an inducement for subscribers to upgrade to smartphones and commit to $30 a month data plans, has the company acknowledged that its future marketplace success lies in data and not voice services, and how will the company prevent a substantial reduction in plain old voice subscriptions priced above the $30 data plan benchmark? <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/wireless_voip_loss_leader_or_upselling_strategy" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Feb 19, 2010</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 10,552</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20100129_greatest_free_riders_of_our_time">The Greatest Free Riders of Our Time</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/access_providers" class="red">Access Providers</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,  <a href="/topics/wireless" class="red">Wireless</a>,</div> <p> Former Southwestern Bell CEO, now General Motors CEO Ed Whitacre famously accused Google of free-riding his network, despite the obvious truth that Google pays for traffic delivery to peering points and ISPs gladly enter into reciprocal peering agreements in lieu of cash transactions that would likely result in a near zero payment as roughly equivalent traffic balances out. Mr. Whitacre did raise a legitimate question whether there are free riders and I'm seeing one darling and one unexpected group flying below the radar. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20100129_greatest_free_riders_of_our_time" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Jan 29, 2010</li> <li>Comments: 8</li> <li>Views: 10,964</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20091001_the_regulatory_arbitrage_lovefest">The Regulatory Arbitrage Lovefest</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/net_neutrality" class="red">Net Neutrality</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,</div> <p> My day job, which includes finishing a book, updating a broadband law treatise, and trying to engage undergraduate students in the challenges of telecommunication and Internet policy, prevents me from weighing in each time I see yet another outrageous claim on such issues as network neutrality, broadband market penetration, and the competitiveness of U.S. telecoms markets. But I have to make time for this one. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20091001_the_regulatory_arbitrage_lovefest" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Oct 01, 2009</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 8,123</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20090802_some_unsolicited_advice_att_google_voice">Some Unsolicited Advice for AT&T re Google Voice</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/brand_protection" class="red">Brand Protection</a>,  <a href="/topics/mobile_internet" class="red">Mobile Internet</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,  <a href="/topics/wireless" class="red">Wireless</a>,</div> <p> The FCC has posed a number of provocative questions to AT&T regarding the fact that iPhone subscribers cannot download and use the Google Voice application. AT&T should stifle every motivation to play cute or clever with the FCC. Apple adopted such a strategy when it suggested to the Library of Congress and others that it would be curtains for the free world if iPhone owners could hack, jailbreak, tether, and otherwise use their handsets without fear of violating the prohibition on circumventing copyright laws contained in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20090802_some_unsolicited_advice_att_google_voice" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Aug 03, 2009</li> <li>Comments: 1</li> <li>Views: 10,519</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20090723_the_google_telephone_company">The Google Telephone Company?</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,  <a href="/topics/voip" class="red">VoIP</a>,  <a href="/topics/wireless" class="red">Wireless</a>,</div> <p> Google has undertaken a beta-test of <a href="http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html">a telephony platform</a> that includes the opportunity to route incoming calls to multiple devices and telephone numbers as well as free domestic long distance service. Google offers a service that fits somewhere between computer-to-computer, Internet telephony and Voice over the Internet Protocol telephony with access to and from the public switched telephone network. These service categories present polar opposites for U.S. regulatory purposes... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20090723_the_google_telephone_company" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Jul 23, 2009</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 12,326</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20090129_needed_fcc_regulatory_reforms">Top Ten List of Needed FCC Regulatory Reforms</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,  <a href="/topics/wireless" class="red">Wireless</a>,</div> <p> Honesty is the best policy. At the risk of anthromorphizing a regulatory agency, at the very least the FCC has not told the complete truth, or put itself in a position not to know the truth. The FCC has contributed to debates about what constitutes credible facts and statistics, and what this data means. For example, soon-to-be former FCC Chairman Kevin Martin asserted as the gospel truth his factual conclusion that cable television operators collectively have a 70% market share... The FCC should acknowledge that it may not know all the facts. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20090129_needed_fcc_regulatory_reforms" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Jan 29, 2009</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 9,360</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20081218_apple_iphone_apps_store_open_or_walled">Apple iPhone Apps Store: Refreshing Openness or Walled Garden?</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/mobile_internet" class="red">Mobile Internet</a>,  <a href="/topics/net_neutrality" class="red">Net Neutrality</a>,  <a href="/topics/wireless" class="red">Wireless</a>,</div> <p> Apple Computer has received high praise for the diversity of applications available for the iPhone. The company shows great willingness to accept third party software innovations. But Apple also solely decides whether to accept and make available any application. Rejected software vendors for the most part do not exist if they do not have shelf space at the Apple store. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20081218_apple_iphone_apps_store_open_or_walled" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Dec 18, 2008</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 9,915</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20081202_lessons_from_hawaii_telcom_bankruptcy">Lessons From the Hawaii Telcom Bankruptcy</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/access_providers" class="red">Access Providers</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,</div> <p> Hawaii Telcom, the incumbent local exchange telephone company, has filed for bankruptcy protection. Press accounts attribute this outcome to increased competition, the company's struggle to finance capital spending while making debt payments, a significant downturn in the economy, as well as the difficulties in the transition following the leveraged buyout of the company from Verizon Communications Inc. I have a few other bogus and credible explanations that may offer greater insights. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20081202_lessons_from_hawaii_telcom_bankruptcy" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Dec 02, 2008</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 11,464</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/87313_wrong_headed_wsj_editorial_fcc">Another Wrong-Headed WSJ Editorial</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/access_providers" class="red">Access Providers</a>,  <a href="/topics/broadband" class="red">Broadband</a>,  <a href="/topics/net_neutrality" class="red">Net Neutrality</a>,  <a href="/topics/p2p" class="red">P2P</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,  <a href="/topics/wireless" class="red">Wireless</a>,</div> <p> Those wacky editorial writers at the Wall Street Journal just cannot seem to get the facts straight about network neutrality and what the FCC has done or can do on this matter. In the July 30, 2008 edition (Review and Outlook A14), the Journal vilifies FCC Chairman Kevin Martin for starting along the slippery slope of regulating Internet content. The Journal writers just seem to love hyperbole, and are not beyond ignoring the facts when they do not support a party line. Here are a few examples from the editorial... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/87313_wrong_headed_wsj_editorial_fcc" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Jul 31, 2008</li> <li>Comments: 11</li> <li>Views: 21,892</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/87960_opt_in_best_efforts_internet_routing">Consequences of Opt-in Better Than Best Efforts Internet Routing</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/access_providers" class="red">Access Providers</a>,  <a href="/topics/broadband" class="red">Broadband</a>,  <a href="/topics/net_neutrality" class="red">Net Neutrality</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,</div> <p> While attending the International Telecommunications Society's 17th bi-annual conference I attended yet another network neutrality session. Economists predominated at this conference and their collective read on network neutrality emphasizes the need for ISPs to "extract value" from content providers primarily by converting zero cost peering with ISPs into specific payments from individual content sources. I have no problem with offers of non-neutral, "better than best efforts" routing options to content providers who voluntarily opt in, particularly if the offer is made transparently and anyone can opt in. What troubles me is the impact of opt-in on content providers that opt out... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/87960_opt_in_best_efforts_internet_routing" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Jul 09, 2008</li> <li>Comments: 2</li> <li>Views: 9,834</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/84211_who_any_apps_any_handset_call">Who Makes the Any Apps Any Handset Call?</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/p2p" class="red">P2P</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,  <a href="/topics/voip" class="red">VoIP</a>,</div> <p> The Wall Street Journal today reported that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin wants to reject a Petition for Declaratory Ruling filed by Skype that would establish a wireless Carterfone policy, i.e., that wireless carriers must allow subscribers to use any compatible handset to access any application, content or software. Chairman Martin has confidence that the marketplace solutions obviate any necessary FCC intervention. Such optimism must derive in part from the apparently newfound willingness of one major wireless carrier, Verizon, to support aspects of open access. Perhaps Chairman Martin has confidence in the marketplace based on the magnanimous offer of most wireless carriers to pro-rate their early termination penalties by $5 a month. But here's the rub... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/84211_who_any_apps_any_handset_call" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Apr 02, 2008</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 9,550</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/the_internets_weakest_link">The Internet’s Weakest Link</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/access_providers" class="red">Access Providers</a>,  <a href="/topics/cybersecurity" class="red">Cybersecurity</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,  <a href="/topics/threat-intelligence" class="red">Threat Intelligence</a>,</div> <p> This week two major transoceanic cables experienced outages that may last several days. The outages provide a reminder that several Internet bottlenecks exist where these cables make landfall. When one thinks of bottlenecks in telecommunications the first and last mile come to mind. Yet equally vulnerable are the last few 1000 feet of submarine cable links. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/the_internets_weakest_link" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Feb 03, 2008</li> <li>Comments: 3</li> <li>Views: 15,827</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/telecommunications_behind_the_blog">Telecommunications Advocacy: Who’s Behind That Blog?</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/access_providers" class="red">Access Providers</a>,  <a href="/topics/net_neutrality" class="red">Net Neutrality</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,</div> <p> An assignment in a Media and Democracy course I teach at Penn State invites students to select a telecommunications advocacy web site for analysis. I want my students to decode the message and attempt to identify whether a bias exists and who financially supports the site. The exercise typically fails miserably... Most students cannot infer that a site that advertises books by Ann Coulter trends to the right and one that talks about social justice trends to the left. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/telecommunications_behind_the_blog" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Nov 29, 2007</li> <li>Comments: 1</li> <li>Views: 11,590</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/711281_praise_relatively_dumb_pipes">In Praise of Relatively Dumb Pipes</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/access_providers" class="red">Access Providers</a>,  <a href="/topics/broadband" class="red">Broadband</a>,  <a href="/topics/net_neutrality" class="red">Net Neutrality</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,</div> <p> Comcast's furtive and undisclosed traffic manipulation reminds me of a curious, red herring asserted by some incumbent carriers and their sponsored researchers: that without complete freedom to vertically and horizontally integrate the carriers would lose synergies, efficiencies and be relegated to operating "dumb pipes."... Constructing and operating the pipes instead of creating the stuff that traverses them gets a bad rap. It may not be sexy, but it probably has less risk. But of course with less risk comes less reward, and suddenly no one in the telecommunications business is content with that. So incumbent carriers assert that convergence and competitive necessity requires them to add "value" to the pipes. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/711281_praise_relatively_dumb_pipes" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Nov 28, 2007</li> <li>Comments: 16</li> <li>Views: 23,115</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/7112812_fcc_chairman_consumer_advocate">FCC Chairman Martin a Tireless Consumer Advocate - Who Knew?</a></h3> <div class="byLine">Related Topics: <a href="/topics/access_providers" class="red">Access Providers</a>,  <a href="/topics/broadband" class="red">Broadband</a>,  <a href="/topics/policy_regulation" class="red">Policy & Regulation</a>,  <a href="/topics/telecom" class="red">Telecom</a>,</div> <p> In a counter-intuitive move for a Republican free marketeer, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has sought to impose substantial additional regulations on cable television. Chairman Martin ostensibly can retain his credentials by claiming that a 1984 law requires the FCC to act when cable television systems serve 70% or more of the U.S. population and 70% who can subscribe do so. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/7112812_fcc_chairman_consumer_advocate" class="red"><span class="readmore">more</span></a> </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/2982" class="blue">Rob Frieden</a></li> <li>Nov 28, 2007</li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 9,593</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="colB"> <div class="colPad">  <h2 style="margin-bottom:10px;">Topic Interests</h2> <div style="padding:0 0 30px 0;line-height:20px;"> <a href="https://circleid.com/topicsbroadband"><strong>Broadband</strong></a>,  <a href="https://circleid.com/topicsaccess_providers"><strong>Access Providers</strong></a>,  <a href="https://circleid.com/topicspolicy_regulation"><strong>Policy & Regulation</strong></a>,  <a 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