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November 2012
Views and News November 2012 An emerging new business model for wireless service – "Bring Your Own Device" BYOD creates an exciting new approach for enterprise customers to negotiate bulk purchases of wireless service AT&T announces "$14-billion" capital investment plan

September/October 2012
Views and News September/October 2012 Sprint on the block Apple's iPad Mini and implications for wireless competition

August 2012
Views and News August 2012 Redefining "broadband" and constructing a new market reality Do AT&T's plans for the iPhone 5 run afoul of the FCC's Net Neutrality rules? Second Tier Wireless Carriers Undercut AT&T/Verizon

July 2012
Views and News July 2012 New ETI Report examines "Handset Interoperability: Increasing 4G competition in the Lower 700 MHz band" Third Circuit Court of Appeals relies upon ETI testimony in overturning Sprint ETF settlement agreement With FiOS growth nearing its end, Verizon turns to harvesting what it has sown

June 2012
Views and News June 2012 Verizon launches "Share Everything" wireless pricing plans Netflix, Google bring content to the network edge

April 2012
Views and News April 2012 Cramming finds its way to wireless and text messaging California Court of Appeal upholds $40-million verdict based upon ETI Analysis and Testimony Is Windows Phone OS a contender?

March 2012
Views and News March 2012 T-Mobile embarks on LTE expansion using the breakup fee cash and spectrum acquired from AT&T AT&T mulls third-part billing for data LightSquared faces exponential problems Bankruptcy concerns raised for Sprint

February 2012
Views and News February 2012 Wireless earnings roundup: Smartphone sales skyrocket, but will the carriers' bet prove out?

January 2012
Views and News January 2012 Verizon to spin off its consumer wireline business? Tax Revenues Suffer Unintended Collateral Damage from Regulatory/Marketplace Changes

November/December 2011
Views and News November/December 2011 AT&T Withdraws its FCC Application to buy T-Mobile FCC Intercarrier Compensation Order: Boon or Bust for VoIP Providers?

October 2011
Views and News October 2011 Netflix's bet on streaming video spooks customers and investors -- but maybe for the wrong reason Sprint yanks unlimited data plans for existing mobile hotspot customers ETI to present at 2011 NASUCA Annual Meeting

September 2011
Views and News September 2011 Helping Themselves to Corporate Welfare: The Large ILECs' Plan for Universal Broadband The DoJ lawsuit against AT&T/T-Mobile focuses attention on the increase in concentration in individual local markets

August 2011
Views and News August 2011 Google goes shopping 3G, 4G, LTE, WiMAX: what do they all mean? Is the iPhone 5 Sprint's silver bullet

July 2011
Views and News July 2011 The End of the PSTN as we know it? Verizon litigates – and loses – a dispute over $4.19 The wireless gap: The biggest get bigger while the small struggle for survival

June 2011
Views and News June 2011 Understanding the economics of IP-based voice telephone services How far does Concepcion actually go in blocking consumer class action cases against wireless carriers? FCC issues new wireless market report, declines to find wireless market effectively competitive

May 2011
Views and News May 2011 Has the time come to regulate wireless rates?

April 2011
Views and News April 2011 As SmartMeter deployment expands, consumer skepticism and community opposition escalate Supreme Court wipes out last vestige of consumer protection in the wireless market Measuring Wireless Market Concentration

March 2011
Views and News March 2011 And then there were three: AT&T swallows T-Mobile A new approach to Intercarrier Compensation

February 2011
Views and News February 2011 De-linking Intercarrier Compensation from explicit Universal Service support What constitutes "affordable" telecom services – reconciling Americans' escalating telecom spending with any claimed need to "subsidize" network access

January 2011
Views and News January 2011 The FCC's "Open Internet" Order: Minimal regulation despite a spot-on assessment of access provider monopoly power Verizon to start offering iPhones: A big deal, or a big so what?

December 2010

Views and News December 2010

Intercarrier compensation in the Internet world: Charging content providers and content delivery networks for access to end users
Will the ILECs delay the FCC’s latest effort to collect data on special access competition in one of the longest-running FCC dockets?
ETI paper on reclassification of broadband Internet access published in theFederal Communications Law Journal now available

November 2010
Views and News November 2010 De-linking video content from video delivery: Are longstanding business models now at risk? Has the Internet matured to the point where its tax exemption can be safely rescinded? ETI paper on reclassification of broadband Internet access to be published in December 2010 Federal Communications Law Journal

October 2010
Views and News October 2010 Net Neutrality, "Paid Prioritization," and "Network Management" – Part II FCC proposes new rules intended to protect wireless customers from "bill shock" FCC Announces Developer Application Programming Interface (API) for Data Access

September 2010
Views and News September 2010 Canadian regulators expand requirement for nondiscriminatory provision of wholesale broadband transmission to rival carriers Net Neutrality, "Paid Prioritization," and "Network Management" – Part I

August 2010
Views and News August 2010 New FCC interest in DoJ/FTC Horizontal Merger Guidelines for assessing dominant carrier market power Should different regulatory treatment apply to wireline vs. wireless broadband internet access?

July 2010
Views and News July 2010 Wireless Markets: No Longer "Effectively Competitive"? FCC denial of Qwest's Phoenix Forbearance Petition highlights new focus on carrier market power ETI urges FCC to extend its use of quantitative market-power based analysis to the special access market at FCC economists workshop

June 2010
Views and News June 2010 Net Neutrality: A Market Structure Perspective Technology and Taxation: Keeping Up With the Tax Implications of the Fast-paced Changes in Telecommunications and the Internet

May 2010
Views and News May 2010 Why Broadband Internet Access Should be Reclassified as a Title II Telecom Service Market Structure Regulation Will Lead to Increased Competition and Stimulate Increased Investment and Jobs ETI Analysis and Testimony Basis for Second Largest Jury Award in California in 2009

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