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Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy
Many businesses are “pipelines” that channel goods or services to consumers. Today, pipelines face competition from a new business model, the platform. Platforms provide opportunities for consumers and producers to interact, just as Uber connects drivers and passengers.
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Geoffrey Parker, Marshall Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary |
2016 |
Reflecting on the 1996 Act
The 1996 Telecommunications Act was intended to open communications markets to competition. Legislators did not foresee the role that the Internet and wireless service would play in increasing competition; instead, they emphasized the importance of local telephone networks.
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Gregory L. Rosston, Bradley Wimmer |
2016 |
Unlocking Spectrum Value through Improved Allocation, Assignment, and Adjudication of Spectrum Rights
Future demand for wireless services will be hard to satisfy, as little unused spectrum remains. Wireless services must use spectrum more intensively. Reform is needed to facilitate intensive use, freeing wireless firms to negotiate deals with neighbors and resolve disputes.
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Pierre de Vries, Philip J. Weiser |
2014 |
The Wasteland: Anticommons, White Spaces, and the Fallacy of Spectrum
This article analyzes the advantages of allowing public access to broadcast frequencies between commercial stations.
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Kevin Werbach |
2011 |
Using Spectrum Auctions to Enhance Competition in Wireless Services
This paper looks at how regulators can support more competition between different wireless services.
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Gregory L. Rosston, Peter Cramton, Evan Kwerel, Andrzej (Andy) Skrzypacz |
2011 |
Dr. Generative or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the iPhone
This paper reviews Jonathan Zittrain's 2008 book, The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It
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James Grimmelmann, Paul Ohm |
2010 |
An Antitrust Analysis of the Case for Wireless Network Neutrality
This article asks whether wireless firms should be regulated to improve competition.
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Gregory L. Rosston, Michael Topper |
2009 |
Modular Confines of Mobile Networks: Are iPhones iPhony?
This paper assesses a regulatory proposal for wireless phones.
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Thomas Hazlett |
2009 |
Winning Play in Spectrum Auctions
This looks at why bidders pay different prices for similar rights in FCC auctions for rights to use wireless spectrum.
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Jonathan Levin, Jeremy Bulow, Paul Milgrom |
2009 |
Competition vs. Regulation in Mobile Telecommunications
This paper discusses the benefits, detriments and effects of different regulation schemes on the mobile telecom sector.
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Thomas Tangeras |
2008 |