Economics at the FCC, 2015–2016: Competition, Merger Review, and Spectrum Management

Carare, Roxana O.; Kiselev, Eugene; Leighton, Wayne A.; Levy, Jonathan D.; LoPiccalo, Katherine; Sanyal, Paroma; Waldon, Tracy

doi:10.1007/s11151-016-9546-8

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“…So 2015's low seminar count appears to be a cherry-picked anomaly that hardly supports the authors' sweeping claim. A far more plausible explanation for the one-year dip is that 2015 was an unusually busy year for the FCC, with the Internet proceedings and a pair of blockbuster merger and acquisition reviews (as addressed below) (see Bring et al, 2015;Carare et al, 2016;Sallet, 2015).…”

Section: International Journal Of Communication 11(2017)mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Curious Tale of Economics and Common Carriage (Net Neutrality) at the FCC: A Reply to Faulhaber, Singer, and Urschel

Pooley¹,

Winseck²

2019

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This reply to “The Curious Absence of Economic Analysis at the Federal Communications Commission” by Faulhaber, Singer, and Urschel makes three claims. First, we document the paper’s undisclosed origins as a white paper commissioned by an advocacy group with deep ties to the telecommunications industry. Second, we describe two of the authors’ active participation, on behalf of clients, in a range of contested issues before the FCC in recent years. Finally, our review of FCC workshops, roundtables, seminars, dockets, and rulings—including during its landmark 2015 Open Internet Order and several blockbuster mergers and acquisitions—provides detailed evidence to refute the paper’s core “curious absence” charge. The stakes could not be higher, we conclude, as the new FCC chair, Ajit Pai, has repeatedly referenced the paper to justify his rollback of FCC regulations—including, crucially, the common carriage/net neutrality rules so vigorously opposed by the paper’s funders.

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Section: International Journal Of Communication 11(2017)mentioning

confidence: 99%