One of the most contentious debates in modern telecommunications policy regards whether or not a regulatory mandated reductions in the per-minute costs of long distance carriers - access charges domestically and settlement rates internationally - are fully reflected in the per-minute prices for...

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 (the "1996 Act"), by stressing the reduction or elimination of entry barriers that prevent the fragmentation of market structure and an increase in the number of competitors, established competition and deregulation as the foundation for public policy towards...

In this Perspective, I review arguments that broadband providers may be anticompetitively imposing usage-based pricing to protect their profits from “core” services (e.g., voice, video, texting) against the proliferation of “over the top” services and, as such, new price regulation of...

One important concern for the upcoming and highly-complex voluntary incentive auctions for broadcast television spectrum is the degree to which the largest mobile wireless providers will be allowed to participate. Recently, the U.S. Department of Justice encouraged the Federal Communications...

After the stunning decline in the FTC staff’s views of senior leadership in 2021—nearly the largest decline of any federal agency in a decade—satisfaction with senior leadership fell again in 2022, while views of FTC supervisory leadership once again improved. The agency appears to be in...

Prior to the invention of the Internet, shopping for goods was relatively simple: a consumer visited a brick-and-mortal retailer and selected a product from what was available or, for some retailers, shopped using a catalog. Today, a simple Internet search may return a bewildering number of...

Antitrust reform advocates view the acquisition of small innovative companies by large technology “platform” companies as a primary competitive problem in digital markets. To remedy this perceived problem, these advocates recommend restrictions on mergers and acquisitions including...

Recent press reports reveal that the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has experienced a dramatic decline in employee engagement and satisfaction under Chair Lina Kahn, attributed largely to Chair Kahn’s mis-management and politicization of the once highly-respected agency. The results from...

We offer a simple analysis of a digital platform’s incentives to bias sales toward its own products and services. The analysis reveals that a digital platform is less biased - not more biased - in the promotion of its own products and services relative to online sellers that do not permit...

This Article presents a legal and economic framework for analyzing municipal broadband. Economics predicts, and the evidence confirms, that municipal broadband is in almost all scenarios subsidized entry, covering capital costs and losses with tax dollars and other internal transfers....