Flame-Grilled Whopper Marketing Strategy
To the amusement of many, Burger King has thrown its crown in the ring for net neutrality. Recode’s Tony Romm correctly diagnosed the move as a calculated effort by the…
2018 Broadband Deployment Report
After flirting with some major restructuring in the way broadband progress is assessed in the US, Chairman Pai has released a fact sheet that maintains the analytical status quo with…
The Internet After Net Neutrality
Let’s not be distracted by shiny objects any more. The Internet still has tremendous promise as well as serious problems to solve. Making it better through continuous experimentation should be the top priority.
How Level 3’s Tiny Error Shut Off the Internet for Parts of the US
Wired explains why you had a hard time accessing a big part of the Internet yesterday. Level 3 misconfigured some routes due to a “route leak”. A YEAR AGO, a…
Depressing Investment Figures
Figures released by US Telecom on Tuesday showed reduced spending on broadband infrastructure for the second year in a row. While 2014 was the best year for broadband investment since the fiber bubble…
Internet Monopoly Platform Crisis
How the tables have turned. At the dawn of the net neutrality debate, the good guys in the Internet marketplace were the scrappy platform startups created in dorm rooms and…
Cooking the Books While Startups Languish
Since leaving the FCC, former chairman Tom Wheeler and Special Advisor Gigi Sohn have relentlessly attacked current chairman Ajit Pai. This is an unusual breach of decorum because former FCC…
Helping the FCC Get Broadband Right
The FCC’s annual inquiry on the state of US broadband is underway and we’re here to help. This process, mandated by federal law, seeks to discover whether advanced networks are…
You Get What You Measure
The awesome TPRC Conference starts on Friday this week, at the Scalia Law School at George Mason U. in Arlington. This conference brings academics and policy scholars from around the world together…
My Reply Comments on Restoring Internet Freedom
Today I filed a critique of the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s “Engineers Letter” with the FCC. The letter, based on a an amicus brief filed in support of the 2015 Open…