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On November 27, 2017 Recon Analytics convened a panel of esteemed legal, policy and regulatory experts to discuss the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Restoring Internet Freedom Order. The discussion focused on the investment and innovation implications of the FCC treating …
Regulation
Digital advertising takes the lead – Dominated by Google and Facebook
The IAB just published its 2016 advertising revenue figures. It was a banner year with record setting revenues of $72.5 billion, 22% higher than last year. This makes digital advertising the number one advertising medium in the United States as …
Scientific Testing: The Most Reliable Way to Test a Network
The FCC is seeking to more closely regulate a key tactic in mobile carrier marketing—their performance and speed claims.
The commission already does this for fixed broadband and has proposed to use crowd data to set the upper limit for …
ITU and CDC confirm what we already knew: Wireless is the consumer’s choice
Earlier this week the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) reported the results of its annual global survey. Mobile broadband connections (47.2% of the global population) have now overtaken households with internet access (46.2%) not to mention fixed broadband connections (10.2%) In …
Special Access: How Government Preference for Some May Mean Higher Prices for All
Five years after the FCC called for data on the state of the special access marketplace from just a portion of the providers offering special access, the agency appears poised to modify contracts and embark on a new round of …
Incentive Auctions: What Matters Here and Now
Another hot topic is the upcoming incentive auction. The amount of available spectrum per subscriber tells us how much capacity the carrier has to serve its customers and therefore what the theoretical upper limits of data speeds are. It also …
The Market Response to Regulating the Internet? Not good.
After several failed attempts to come up with a net neutrality proposal that reasonably addresses legal, industry and consumer advocate concerns around the optimal legal foundation for net neutrality, the FCC made public last week it wanted to pursue a …
Managing market share by restricting spectrum ownership – warnings of a managed economy?
A raging debate over the future of the U.S. wireless industry has taken center stage in Washington, and attracted the attention of the Europeans whose own wireless industry is imploding. The outcome of the debate will directly impact the US …
How Sprint-Dish would affect Sprint shareholders, customers, competitors and the regulators
Dish Network just threw its hat into another merger ring with its $25.5 billion bid to acquire Sprint. This follows Dish’s bid to purchase Clearwire, which Sprint was already in the process of purchasing. Dish’s announcement followed Friday’s news that …
Roger’s Recon: Who’s competing and how: Overview of the wireless ecosphere
The wireless industry has become a multi-polar competitive industry. The days of the carriers sitting at the center of the universe dictating the orbits of its vendors are over. Looking at just how operators are competing against each other is …
