T-Mobile USA: European competition is the coffin. The American economy is the...
Sitting in the barbershop yesterday with my nine-year old son when I overheard one barber discussing MetroPCS with his customer. Hopefully the barber doesn’t own any shares of the Dallas-based company...
View ArticleIs poor economy justification for FCC, DOJ to deny AT&T/T-Mobile merger?
An article in The Wall Street Journal discussed how the stock value declines for second tier carriers like MetroPCS may have an impact on AT&T, given that a poor economy may lead to more...
View ArticleThe FCC, economy, and the public interest
CNET.com’s Roger Cheng obviously understands not only mobile technology, but the ripples that should be expected in a changing marketplace. In his piece, Mr. Cheng cited a study by Deloitte which finds...
View ArticleBruce Mehlman, Internet Innovation Alliance Gets It
I love this quote from Bruce Mehlman captured in a piece by Broadcast and Cable yesterday: “Now more than ever we need more spectrum in the hands of those actually serving our entrepreneurs, to ensure...
View ArticleProof the FCC Loves Monopolies
We have heard over and over again how regulatory uncertainty can impede decision making on the part of business. The same holds true for the communications industry. In an article published in the...
View ArticleGenachowski’s upbeat view of mobile capex spending should be accompanied by...
Gross domestic product did a 180 degree turn in the fourth quarter as the nation saw national output shrink by an annualized rate of .1%. The Bureau of Economic Analysis attributed the shrinkage to...
View ArticleCities should really start thinking about being broadband ports-of-call
I know it’s late, but this The New York Times article got me thinking (again) about how important cities need to consider being broadband ports-of-call. The article challenges the expectation that...
View ArticleBroadband helps disrupt the information markets
This morning I’m listening to a segment on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal where Greg Ip, U.S. economics editor for The Economist, is discussing whether the economy is growing. A caller to the show, a...
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