In this perspective I have shown that the monthly prices of set-top boxes for municipally-owned and operated video systems are equal to those charged by private providers. Consequently, the claim that the prices charged by private providers for set-top boxes are “unjust”,...

The Lisbon Council's 2015 study on intellectual property is shown to be a showcase of methodological blunder, including the use of five different currencies in an inter-country analysis, cherry picking results from over 460 statistical tests based on sample sizes no larger than 8, and many other...

I demonstrate that the FCC's Special Access data will likely show that regulation is unnecessary in many geographic areas and already adequate, if not too strict, in others. I do not believe these data, or any legitimate analysis of them, permit the Commission to make any claims about the extent...

In this Perspective, I address the relationship of set-top box prices to costs by asking what the government would charge for a set-top box. To do so, I look at set-top box prices actually charged by government-owned and operated video systems. In many places across the country, the government...

In this BULLETIN, I study broadband deployment over the years 2014-2020 in Tribal and non-Tribal census tracts using the Federal Communications Commission’s Form 477 data to quantify progress. This “Tribal Gap” is measured as the difference in average broadband availability between Tribal...

Formal regulatory parity can entail counterintuitive effects. In a series of state statutes, municipal governments have been directed to issue cable TV franchises to new competitors only after (a) formal hearings considering the ‘public interest’ in competition; and (b) imposing terms and...