Presenters Eli Noam, Marius Schwartz, and Babette Boliek take questions from the audience at IEP’s April 2013 conference, From Monopoly to Competition or Competition to Monopoly? U.S. Broadband Markets in 2013.  

Information Economy Project News

Skorup Discusses Spectrum Issues in Heartland Institute Podcast

June 12th, 2013

The IEP's Brent Skorup recently sat down with the Heartland Institute's Jim Lakely to discuss the diminishing availability of spectrum in mobile broadband networks. Skorup recently published a paper on the topic in which he argues that the federal government must sell spectrum to private mobile broadband providers in order to alleviate the "spectru[...]

Skorup on the Efficient Use of Federal Spectrum

June 12th, 2013

IEP's Brent Skorup has recently published a paper through George Mason's Mercatus Center that examines proposals for reallocating spectrum held by the federal government for use in mobile broadband networks. Considering the quickly increasing popularity of mobile broadband services, the efficient transfer of spectrum to the private market has wide [...]

Hazlett and Sohn Debate Net Neutrality in the Wall Street Journal

May 16th, 2013

In this week's Wall Street Journal, IEP Director Thomas Hazlett argues that "network neutrality" regulation not only distorts markets but undermines the demonstrated success of business model competition between Internet service providers. Gigi Sohn, of Public Knowledge, takes the opposite view, arguing -- with the Federal Communications Commissio[...]

Thomas Hazlett on Plan B for the Incentive Auctions

May 16th, 2013

TV News Check published an article about the FCC's alternative plans should the highly-anticipated incentive auctions fail to clear enough TV broadcasters from the spectrum to make room for wireless communications. In the piece, IEP Director Thomas Hazlett and Blair Levin discuss the so-called "overlay auction" as an obvious Plan B: “The pro[...]

Thomas Hazlett's Slides on Overlay Licenses From MIT CSAIL Event

April 30th, 2013

Thomas Hazlett presented on overlay license auctions at an MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory event on wireless policy on April 23. A program for the event is available here and his slides are below:[...]

Thierer and Skorup on Tim Wu's Separations Principle

April 30th, 2013

IEP's Brent Skorup and Adam Thierer, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, have published a law review article on vertical integration in the information economy in the Federal Communications Law Journal. From the abstract: Are information sectors sufficiently different from other sectors of the economy such that more stringent anti[...]

Hazlett and Skorup on LightSquared and Spectrum Rights

April 26th, 2013

IEP's Thomas Hazlett and Brent Skorup recently completed a new research piece, Tragedy of the Regulatory Commons: LightSquared and the Missing Spectrum Rights. The Duke Law & Technology Review will publish the article later this year. Hazlett and Skorup describe how the FCC's rights assignment process caused the GPS-LightSquared conflict, resulting[...]

News Mentions of IEP's Broadband Conference

April 24th, 2013

There were several journalists and reporters from the telecom trade press in attendance at IEP's April 19 broadband conference, many drawn by the keynote address from FTC Commissioner Joshua Wright. Erica Teichert from Law360 covered Commissioner Wright's speech on net neutrality: “I think the net neutrality order is strikingly poor policy w[...]

Thomas Hazlett on American University Radio

April 22nd, 2013

On April 16 IEP Director Thomas Hazlett was invited to a discussion on American University Radio's Kojo Nnamdi Show about the Google Fiber project in Kansas City and broadband competition. Other guests in the segment were Joanne Hovis (Columbia Telecommunications Corporation and National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors), Cou[...]

Broadband Conference Speaker Presentations

April 19th, 2013

Morning Keynote Commissioner Joshua Wright (Federal Trade Commission) – Broadband Policy and Consumer Welfare: The Case for An Antitrust Approach to Net Neutrality Issues   Panel 1 Eli Noam (Columbia University Business School) – Concentration in U.S. Broadband Markets Please Check Back for Prof. Noam's Presentation Marius [...]