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		<title>The Problem is Consumer Demand for Content, Other Goods and Services Not Special Access Lines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hill.com reported yesterday on a letter sent to the Federal Communications Commission from a number of Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee asking the FCC to look at implementing policy that would lead to the reduction of rates for special access lines.
Special access lines are typically used to connect a customer directly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s Wrong with Verizon Making a Business Judgment to Use the AWS Band?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Communications Commission’s wireless bureau chief has some questions for Verizon.  Specifically, they want to know why Verizon went to all that trouble bidding on spectrum in the 700MHz block only to consider putting it up for sale contingent on the closing of a deal to buy AWS band spectrum from Spectrum, Co.
Business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Wouldn&#8217;t Touch Facebook with a Forty Foot Pole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook is a great communications tool, but if I were an investor, I wouldn&#8217;t touch this company with a forty foot pole. Why buy a company where the most precious resource is people and the biggest product is their personal information? That type of combo only invites regulatory scrutiny which results in a volatile stock [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Does Denying Confidentiality to a Joint Operating Entity Agreement Encourage Access to Spectrum?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Public Knowledge, one of the Dark Lords of the Progressive Sith, filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission asking the agency to deny confidential treatment of a joint operating agreement between Verizon and SpectrumCo and Verizon and Cox.  Verizon wants to purchase spectrum from these two entities in exchange for the cross selling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawandpoliticsofbroadband.com/2012/05/how-does-denying-confidentiality-to-a-joint-operating-entity-agreement-encourage-access-to-spectrum/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=how-does-denying-confidentiality-to-a-joint-operating-entity-agreement-encourage-access-to-spectrum</link>
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		<title>Ergen Wants Spectrum Now, but I FCC’s Dilemma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DISH Network’s Charlie Ergen would like to see the Federal Communications Commission approve the use of the company’s satellite spectrum for terrestrial mobile broadband.  Unfortunately the FCC is also considering rules for the use of satellite spectrum for the entire satellite sector.
I guess I can see the FCC’s dilemma.  Cut DISH a waiver [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawandpoliticsofbroadband.com/2012/05/ergen-wants-spectrum-now-but-i-fcc%e2%80%99s-dilemma/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ergen-wants-spectrum-now-but-i-fcc%25e2%2580%2599s-dilemma</link>
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		<title>Speaking of Free Market-based Spectrum Allocation …</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks like MetroPCS and T-Mobile USA are thinking of hooking up.  T-Mobile and MetroPCS are allegedly in merger talks, according to Investor’s Business Daily.  The transaction would see the combined company come under control of T-Mobile’s parent, Deutsche Telekom.  AT&#038;T was unsuccessful in its bid for T-Mobile, and Sprint had its eyes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawandpoliticsofbroadband.com/2012/05/speaking-of-free-market-based-spectrum-allocation-%e2%80%a6/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=speaking-of-free-market-based-spectrum-allocation-%25e2%2580%25a6</link>
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		<title>Politics is not How Spectrum Should be Allocated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m digging Holman Jenkins’ column in The Wall Street Journal about the allocation of spectrum.  Mr. Jenkins makes the argument that politics should not be used to allocate a valuable resource like spectrum.  The economics says that the resource should go to the entity that wants to put it to best use and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawandpoliticsofbroadband.com/2012/05/politics-is-not-how-spectrum-should-be-allocated/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=politics-is-not-how-spectrum-should-be-allocated</link>
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		<title>It’s About Flow of Capital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jamal Simmons’ piece in today’s The Podium raises two important issues.  First, we should not take for granted how much the private sector has invested in meeting the increasing demand for broadband services.  According to his piece, broadband providers have invested tens of billions of dollars last year in broadband deployment.  I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawandpoliticsofbroadband.com/2012/05/it%e2%80%99s-about-flow-of-capital/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=it%25e2%2580%2599s-about-flow-of-capital</link>
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		<title>Proof the FCC Loves Monopolies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have heard over and over again how regulatory uncertainty can impede decision making on the part of business.  The same holds true for the communications industry.  In an article published in the National Review Online, Kevin Hassett provided an example of the dampening effect on growth ill-advised policy can have. 
Mr. Hassett [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lawandpoliticsofbroadband.com/2012/05/proof-the-fcc-loves-monopolies/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=proof-the-fcc-loves-monopolies</link>
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		<title>Back to the Future on Broadband Regulation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Mehlman, co-chairman of the Internet Innovation Alliance, shared some insightful thoughts yesterday prior to a discussion on Capitol Hill about the future of broadband and the Internet:
“Pro-Internet policy successes came when government removed barriers, rather than adding new ones,” said IIA Co-Chairman Bruce Mehlman.  “Unfortunately those days may be ending.  While there [...]]]></description>
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