This ConsumerGram discusses how Google uses near perfect price discrimination and multi-sided markets to profit on search advertising.  The ConsumerGram was written by Dr. Larry Darby, a former FCC Bureau Chief and Chief Economist, shortly before his passing last year.  Click here to download the entire piece — CG on multisided markets and price discrimination

Questions for FCC Chairman Genachowski from Informed Consumers: Where Are the Links between Your Policies and Consumer Welfare? In a long, meandering, and hastily prepared statement released May 6, 2010, FCC Chairman Genachowski attempted to explain his rationale for imposing additional regulations on providers of broadband network access services. It is his response to a [...]

Keep Your Regulatory Mitts Off My Internet (Published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 24, 2010) Net neutrality. Who could be against that? What’s the fuss all about? Fair questions all. Readers will ask: If net neutrality is neutral, why should consumers care? The answer is: Many consumers will be harmed. Informed consumers will ignore [...]

Last week the DC Circuit Court of Appeals denied Federal Communication Commission claims that it had authority “implied,” but not expressly granted by Congress, to “manage” network management techniques of Comcast and other broadband network providers.  Policy analysts and advocates have already joined in debating next steps for the FCC and Congress.  This ConsumerGram (CG) [...]

Opinion: Net Neutrality Ruling Will Refocus Debate, available at AOL News …

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The FCC is thinking of proposing rules to regulate the Internet, but there are no market failures to justify such regulation.  Read Dr. Larry F. Darby’s ConsumerGram for the details … nn-and-market-failuare

ACI Calls Policy Makers’ Attention to Facts about Investment Washington, DC (November 11, 2009) – Emphasizing its agreement that the FCC “…must be guided by evidence, not rhetoric,” the American Consumer Institute today released a point-by-point report refuting the claims about investment and regulation made by Free Press. Given the close relationship between broadband network [...]

Remarks of Dr. Larry F. Darby How “Cozy” is the BB Duopoly? PFF Congressional Seminar: “Broadband Competition: Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? Delivered on June 12, 2009 ************************************************** Thank you. · I want summarize some results of our ongoing work, from a consumer welfare perspective, What kinds of tests for market failure [...]

October 13, 2009 Ms. Sharon Gillett, Chief Wireline Competition Bureau 445 12th St., SW Washington, DC 20554 Regarding the Pending Net Neutrality NPRM Dear Ms. Gillett: This letter is motivated in large part by Chairman Genachowski’s recent announcement of his intention to launch a rulemaking to strengthen and extend the Commission’s Net Neutrality principles. Its [...]