Against Monopoly
defending the right to innovate
Monopoly corrupts. Absolute monopoly corrupts absolutely.
Copyright Notice: We don't think much of copyright, so you can do what you want with the content on this blog. Of course we are hungry for publicity, so we would be pleased if you avoided plagiarism and gave us credit for what we have written. We encourage you not to impose copyright restrictions on your "derivative" works, but we won't try to stop you. For the legally or statist minded, you can consider yourself subject to a Creative Commons Attribution License.
FCC to choose auction rules for emerging spectrum
The Federal Communications Commission faces a legacy-defining moment when in the next few weeks it decides how to auction the 60 MHz of spectrum freed up by the move of TV to high definition, according to Gigi Sohn at Public Knowledge link. She has some astute comments on the opportunity to add a third broad-band channel capable of competing with the existing duopoly of cable and DSL channels. She suggests a number of auction rules that would improve the likelihood of a competitive outcome and add substantially to the availability of cheap broadband services.
[Posted at 04/25/2007 12:05 PM by John Bennett on Against Monopoly 
comments(1)]
Comments
This is far more important than "net neutrality." If we can get competition downstream we won't have to worry about net neutrality. I wish that the people who have expended vast resources championing net neutrality - a fairly dubious form of government price regulation - would spend some of that effort making sure that competitors to the cable/DSL companies get a fair shot at the spectrum market.
[Comment at 04/25/2007 01:42 PM by David K. Levine]
Submit Comment
Most Recent Comments
A Texas Tale of Intellectual Property Litigation (A Watering Hole Patent Trolls) Aunque suena insignificante, los números son alarmantes y nos demuestran que no es tan mínimo como
at 06/29/2022 08:48 AM by Abogado de Accidente de Carro en Huntington Park
at 11/27/2021 05:53 PM by Nobody
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:47 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:47 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:42 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:42 PM by Anonymous