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		<title>FCC Seeks Unbounded Spectrum Auction Authority</title>
		<link>http://netcompetitionblog.org/2012/01/17/fcc-seeks-unbounded-spectrum-auction-authority/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scleland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At CES, the FCC signaled that it opposed any effort by Congress to give the FCC policy direction or to establish any checks and balances on the FCC in authorizing incentive auctions of prime TV broadcast spectrum. See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post &#8220;FCC Seeks Unbounded Spectrum Auction Authority&#8221; to see why the the FCC&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=netcompetitionblog.org&#038;blog=7434138&#038;post=1572&#038;subd=netcompetition&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obsolete Television Law Needs Modernization</title>
		<link>http://netcompetitionblog.org/2012/01/04/obsolete-television-law-needs-modernization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scleland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Important free market communications legislation introduced in mid-December warrants flagging because it brings needed attention to a real and growing problem, how obsolete communications law stifles innovation, growth and consumer benefit. See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post on the DeMint-Scalise bill, &#8220;The Next Generation Television Marketplace Act.&#8221;   Filed under: Competition, Congress, Deregulation, FCC, Innovation, Netflix [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=netcompetitionblog.org&#038;blog=7434138&#038;post=1558&#038;subd=netcompetition&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does FCC Want to Become The Federal Video Programming Commission?</title>
		<link>http://netcompetitionblog.org/2011/12/21/does-fcc-want-to-become-the-federal-video-programming-commission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scleland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week an FCC Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ordered Comcast to carry The Tennis Channel in the same tier and channel neighborhood as The Golf Channel and Versus, another sports channel. Given the deep flaws in the ALJ&#8217;s highly-intrusive, and micro-managing decision, there are several good reasons the FCC should overturn the ALJ&#8217;s decision upon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=netcompetitionblog.org&#038;blog=7434138&#038;post=1554&#038;subd=netcompetition&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emily Litella Meets Google Wallet</title>
		<link>http://netcompetitionblog.org/2011/12/21/emily-litella-meets-google-wallet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scleland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To see how the call for the FCC to investigate the allegation that Verizon is blocking Google Wallet is a misinformed Emily Litella rant, please see my Forbes Tech Capitalist Blog post. Filed under: FCC, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Internet Security, Net Neutrality, Online Safety, Open Internet, Open Source, Piracy Tagged: FCC, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Internet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=netcompetitionblog.org&#038;blog=7434138&#038;post=1550&#038;subd=netcompetition&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Verizon-Cable Spectrum: Is FCC Open to Frenemy Competition?</title>
		<link>http://netcompetitionblog.org/2011/12/06/verizon-cable-spectrum-is-fcc-open-to-frenemy-competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scleland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The out-of-the-box thinking that led to Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House to sell $3.6b of AWS spectrum to competitor Verizon, is a watershed &#8220;frenemy&#8221; competitive development which ultimately will flush out the real FCC. Please see my Forbes Tech Capitalist Post &#8220;Verizon-Cable Spectrum: Is FCC Open To Internet Frenemy Competition?&#8220; &#160; Filed under: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=netcompetitionblog.org&#038;blog=7434138&#038;post=1533&#038;subd=netcompetition&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Flaws in FCC&#8217;s AT&amp;T / T-Mobile Competition Analysis</title>
		<link>http://netcompetitionblog.org/2011/12/05/top-ten-flaws-in-fccs-att-t-mobile-competition-analysis/</link>
		<comments>http://netcompetitionblog.org/2011/12/05/top-ten-flaws-in-fccs-att-t-mobile-competition-analysis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scleland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unprecedented release of a FCC draft staff analysis opposing the proposed AT&#38;T / T-Mobile transaction could backfire legally, undermining its intent to backstop the DOJ&#8217;s pending lawsuit against the merger. See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post on the &#8220;Top Ten Flaws in the FCC&#8217;s AT&#38;T / T-Mobile Competition Analysis.&#8221;   Filed under: Antitrust, Competition, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=netcompetitionblog.org&#038;blog=7434138&#038;post=1523&#038;subd=netcompetition&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NetCompetition Statement on Verizon/Cable-SpectrumCo Transaction</title>
		<link>http://netcompetitionblog.org/2011/12/02/netcompetition-statement-on-verizoncable-spectrumco-transaction/</link>
		<comments>http://netcompetitionblog.org/2011/12/02/netcompetition-statement-on-verizoncable-spectrumco-transaction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scleland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 2, 2011 Contact: Scott Cleland 703-217-2407 Verizon/SpectrumCo Deal Reflects Metamorphosis of Communications Competition Broadband, Internet, &#38; Cloud Computing Technologies Creating Omni-Modal Competition WASHINGTON D.C. – Verizon Wireless’ purchase of 20 MHz of currently unused, near-nationwide AWS spectrum from Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks for $3.6b and reselling rights [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=netcompetitionblog.org&#038;blog=7434138&#038;post=1526&#038;subd=netcompetition&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Problem in Search of a Problem</title>
		<link>http://netcompetitionblog.org/2011/11/18/a-problem-in-search-of-a-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scleland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Susan Crawford&#8217;s attempt to manufacture a new net neutrality bogeyman, &#8220;The Looming Cable Monopoly,&#8221; fails to persuade. See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post which deconstructs and debunks Professor Crawford&#8217;s unsupported theory. Filed under: Competition, Congress, FCC, Net Neutrality, Open Internet, Regulation Tagged: Competition, Congress, FCC, Net Neutrality, Open Internet, Regulation<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=netcompetitionblog.org&#038;blog=7434138&#038;post=1513&#038;subd=netcompetition&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Net Neutrality Proponents Pyrrhic Senate Victory</title>
		<link>http://netcompetitionblog.org/2011/11/10/net-neutrality-proponents-pyrrhic-senate-victory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate&#8217;s 52-46 rejection of the Resolution of Disapproval of the FCC&#8217;s net neutrality regulations (after the House voted differently 240-179 to disapprove last spring), is a classic pyrrhic victory for net neutrality proponents in two big ways. First, the issue put the FCC on the political radar screen of every Member of Congress, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=netcompetitionblog.org&#038;blog=7434138&#038;post=1508&#038;subd=netcompetition&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Regulating the Internet</title>
		<link>http://netcompetitionblog.org/2011/11/07/the-politics-of-regulating-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Senate prepares to vote on the fate of the FCC&#8217;s net neutrality regulations this week, it&#8217;s instructive to look more closely at the politics of regulating the Internet. Read my Forbes Tech Capitalist post here. Filed under: Competition, FCC, Fraud, Freedom of Speech, Net Neutrality, Open Internet, Regulation Tagged: Competition, FCC, Fraud, Freedom [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=netcompetitionblog.org&#038;blog=7434138&#038;post=1503&#038;subd=netcompetition&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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