The Federal Communications Commission issued a Privacy Order restricting the use of personal data by Internet Service Providers. Many consumer advocates hailed it as a bold step to protect personal privacy. Many Internet-based companies strongly disagreed. Shortly after the Trump Administration...

This article describes recent regulatory developments for business data services. This is a huge market estimated to be between $45- and $75 billion, dominated by a few thousand sophisticated customers that purchase very reliable private communication networks. Business data customers, for...

This paper uses the failed AT&T/Time Warner merger as a case study to show that mergers between companies with markedly different cultures are likely to fail. Besides documenting the merged company’s worsening financial condition, the paper contrasts AT&T’s performance after the merger with...

Securing critical infrastructure from sophisticated cyber and physical attacks is a top national priority. As recent attacks on the Ukraine electric grid and Metcalf substation have demonstrated, coordinated and sophisticated attacks are a real threat to the nation’s electric grid. A...