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Wireless & Spectrum

Good Spectrum News from the Obama Administration

by Jerry Ellig on June 29, 2010 • View Comments

The administration announced its plan to find 500 megaherz of spectrum for mobile broadband service by the end of the decade.

Do you know your broadband speed? Do you care?

by Jerry Ellig on June 17, 2010 • View Comments

The 80 percent of Americans who do not know their home broadband speeds may be “rationally ignorant.”

AT&T announces price cuts for most data customers

by Jerry Brito on June 2, 2010 • View Comments

AT&T’s data plan changes will actually be a price-cut for me and the majority of AT&T customers. Yup, real evil.

Hands in the Broadband Till

by Jerry Ellig on May 27, 2010 • View Comments

There’s no sense in funding broadband subsidies with a mechanism that discourages people from subscribing to broadband.

More on the FCC’s “Broadband Funding Gap” and Universal Service

by Jerry Ellig on May 19, 2010 • View Comments

A more detailed look at the technical analysis underlying the FCC’s broadband goal and the minimal roles afforded to 3G wireless and satellite.

Broadband and Title II Regulation: An Economic Primer

by Jerry Ellig on April 16, 2010 • View Comments

Why many regulatory economists have such a strong visceral reaction against regulating broadband under Title II of the Communications Act.

It’s about competition, not privatization

by Jerry Brito on April 12, 2010 • View Comments

One more volley in a debate over spectrum commons with my good friend Tim Lee. I point out that governments are necessarily monopolies that make political decisions.

What’s the Problem? A Lesson from the Net Neutrality Debate

by Jerry Ellig on April 9, 2010 • View Comments

If you don’t get the problem right, you won’t get the solution right!

Spectrum commons: Free pizzas, as long as they’re all pepperoni

by Jerry Brito on April 7, 2010 • View Comments

A response to a couple of excellent posts by Tim Lee on the nature of state-controlled spectrum commons.

Broadband Baselines

by Jerry Ellig on April 1, 2010 • View Comments

We won’t know the actual effects of policies intended to promote broadband deployment unless we first understand how the market would have evolved without any policy changes.

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