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FCC Auction Design: An Assessment of 12 Years of Fcc Experimentation

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Michael Giberson David Porter and Vernon Smith have put together an assessment of the FCC’s 12 years of experience with spectrum auction design, forthcoming in the Journal of Law Economics and Policy. From the introduction: Recent policy discussions regarding broadband Internet access have revived debates about various methods for allocating electromagnetic spectrum rights and the …

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Economists Do Not Understand the Opposition to Congestion Pricing

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Michael Giberson A few recent news articles on congestion has Peter Klein at Organization and Markets asking, “Why the Resistance to Pricing?” When the quantity demanded exceeds the quantity supplied — causing shortages, delays, congestion, misallocation — the solution is to raise the price. Every freshman economics student knows this. Why, then, are regulators, industry …

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Maryland Utilities Commission Asserts Itself

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Michael Giberson The Washington Post story is headlined, “O’Malley Encouraging Utilities Commission To Assert Its Powers“: The hearing on the 16th floor of the state government building in Baltimore was as charged as a cross-examination. Two Verizon officials were called to appear before Maryland’s utility regulators to explain a 50 percent increase in customer complaints …

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Auction Seeks to Provide Competitive Prices for the Discovery of Network Goods

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Michael Giberson A Swiss software security research company, WabiSabiLabi, is establishing an online auction site to allow security researchers to auction off discoveries of software vulnerabilities. In their press release, they said: Recently it was reported that although researchers had analyzed a little more than 7,000 publicly disclosed vulnerabilities last year, the number of new …

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Auctioning the Airwaves, Google Style, Ii

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Michael Giberson The tech trade press seems abuzz with speculation over Google’s interest in the FCC’s spectrum auction rules. Google phone? Google wireless? Google the spectrum monopolist? Google turning your cell phone into a mobile AdWords delivery device? All of this wild-eyed speculation seems a bit over the top to me, perhaps because the essential …

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Auctioning the Airwaves, Google Style

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Michael Giberson Google filed a proposal on Monday with the Federal Communications Commission calling on the agency to let companies allocate radio spectrum using the same kind of real-time auction that the search engine company now uses to sell advertisements. The NYTimes article is a little short on the technical details of the proposal (I …

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The Good Doctor on the Evils of the Impending Satellite Radio Monopoly

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Michael Giberson Some financial analysts have concluded that maybe the XM-Sirius merger is not such a good idea, or at least not the outright winner that the companies themselves suggest. As the WSJ’s Deal Journal says: “Regulators may not present the only hurdle faced by Sirius and XM in their efforts to forge a successful …

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Google’s New Home Wireless Offering

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Lynne Kiesling OK, this is one the better April Fool’s Day techie pranks I’ve seen in a while: MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1, 2007 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google TiSP (BETA)™, a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users’ plumbing systems. The Toilet Internet Service …

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Satellite Radio Merger: Antitrust Law in All Its Splendor to Be Revealed

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Michael Giberson XM and Sirius, two satellite radio networks, announced plans to merge yesterday. Amusingly, in the New York Times the story begins with “The nation’s two satellite radio services, Sirius and XM, announced …”, while in the Washington Post leads with ”XM and Sirius, the two satellite radio companies ….” In each case the …

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