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Internet Pricing: The Next Policy Frontier, Daniel Lyons Mar 2013

Internet Pricing: The Next Policy Frontier, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

In the past few years, broadband providers have begun shifting toward tiered service plans (sometimes known as usage-based pricing) that offer customers a fixed amount of data each month for a fee. On average, less than 2 percent of users exceed the most commonly-used tier of 300 GB; nearly 80 percent of consumers never exceed even 50 GB per month. Nevertheless, some critics such as Public Knowledge and the New America Foundation are concerned that this trend may bring higher prices and reduced service. Most recently, NAF analyst Benjamin Lennett asked whether tiered service plans are a plot by cable …


The Internet As The World's Biggest Copy Machine, And How Plaintiff's Bar Seeks To Monetize It, Daniel Lyons Feb 2013

The Internet As The World's Biggest Copy Machine, And How Plaintiff's Bar Seeks To Monetize It, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

On February 23, 2013, Professor Lyons presented at the First Circuit Spring Meeting of the American Bar Association Student Division.


Usage-Based Pricing And Net Neutrality, Daniel Lyons Jan 2013

Usage-Based Pricing And Net Neutrality, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


The Impact Of Data Caps And Other Forms Of Usage Based Pricing For Broadband Access, Daniel Lyons Jan 2013

The Impact Of Data Caps And Other Forms Of Usage Based Pricing For Broadband Access, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Reforming The Universal Service Fund For The Digital Age, Daniel Lyons Jan 2013

Reforming The Universal Service Fund For The Digital Age, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


The Evolving Internet: Patterns In Usage And Pricing, Daniel Lyons Nov 2012

The Evolving Internet: Patterns In Usage And Pricing, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Podcast, Usage-Based Pricing In Broadband, Daniel Lyons Nov 2012

Podcast, Usage-Based Pricing In Broadband, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Interview, Candidate Speech And Broadcaster Responsibilities Beat The Press, Daniel Lyons Dec 2011

Interview, Candidate Speech And Broadcaster Responsibilities Beat The Press, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Presentation, Dodd-Frank And The Administrative Law Of Cooperative Federalism, Daniel Lyons Dec 2011

Presentation, Dodd-Frank And The Administrative Law Of Cooperative Federalism, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Podcast: Talk America Inc. V. Michigan Bell Telephone Company, Daniel Lyons Jul 2011

Podcast: Talk America Inc. V. Michigan Bell Telephone Company, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Tethering The Fcc: The Case Against Chevron Deference For Jurisdictional Claims, Daniel Lyons May 2011

Tethering The Fcc: The Case Against Chevron Deference For Jurisdictional Claims, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Regulating The Internet: Net Neutrality And Nondiscrimination Norms, Daniel Lyons May 2011

Regulating The Internet: Net Neutrality And Nondiscrimination Norms, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Panelist, Liberty, Property, And International Justice, Daniel Lyons Apr 2011

Panelist, Liberty, Property, And International Justice, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Podcast: Is Net Neutrality A Virtual Taking?, Daniel Lyons Apr 2011

Podcast: Is Net Neutrality A Virtual Taking?, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Net Neutrality: A Historical Perspective, Daniel Lyons Apr 2011

Net Neutrality: A Historical Perspective, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Presented Paper: Net Neutrality And Nondiscrimination Norms, Daniel Lyons Mar 2011

Presented Paper: Net Neutrality And Nondiscrimination Norms, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Presented Paper: Net Neutrality And Nondiscrimination Norms In Telecommunications, Daniel Lyons Mar 2011

Presented Paper: Net Neutrality And Nondiscrimination Norms In Telecommunications, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Net Neutrality And The Takings Clause, Daniel Lyons Feb 2011

Net Neutrality And The Takings Clause, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Presented Paper: The Judicial Role In Telecommunications Reregulation, Daniel Lyons Feb 2011

Presented Paper: The Judicial Role In Telecommunications Reregulation, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Virtual Takings: The Coming Fifth Amendment Challenge To Net Neutrality Regulation, Daniel Lyons Jan 2011

Virtual Takings: The Coming Fifth Amendment Challenge To Net Neutrality Regulation, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

“Net neutrality” refers to the principle that broadband providers should not limit the content and applications available over the Internet. Long a rallying cry of techies and academics, it has become one of the central pillars of the Obama Administration’s telecommunications policy. The Federal Communications Commission’s efforts to regulate the “onramp to the Internet” have attracted significant attention from the telecommunications industry and the academic community, which have debated whether the proposed restrictions violate broadband providers’ First Amendment rights. But there is an additional constitutional implication of net neutrality that has not yet been sufficiently addressed in the scholarly literature: …


Tethering The Administrative State: The Case Against Chevron Deference For Fcc Jurisdictional Claims, Daniel Lyons Dec 2010

Tethering The Administrative State: The Case Against Chevron Deference For Fcc Jurisdictional Claims, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

Like many other agencies, the Federal Communications Commission has seen significant regulatory growth under President Obama. But unlike health care, financial reform, and other areas, this growth has come without statutory guidance from Congress. The FCC’s assertion of jurisdiction over broadband service is reminiscent of its earlier attempts to regulate cable and to deregulate telephone service, efforts that courts have viewed skeptically in the absence of specific statutory authorization. But this skepticism is in tension with Chevron, which grants agencies substantial deference to interpret ambiguities in the statutes that they administer. This article argues that Chevron deference should not extend …


Presentation, Universal Service Fund Reform: The Next Five Years, Daniel Lyons Dec 2010

Presentation, Universal Service Fund Reform: The Next Five Years, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Nondiscrimination Norms In Cyberspace, Daniel Lyons Nov 2010

Nondiscrimination Norms In Cyberspace, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

Conducted faculty brown bag discussion on work-in-progress regarding nondiscrimination norms in telecommunications law.


For Msnbc, Comcast Represents Not A Threat, But An Opportunity, Daniel Lyons Nov 2010

For Msnbc, Comcast Represents Not A Threat, But An Opportunity, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Panelist, Natural Law And Property Rights, Daniel Lyons Sep 2010

Panelist, Natural Law And Property Rights, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


The Coming Fifth Amendment Challenge To Net Neutrality Regulation, Daniel Lyons Jul 2010

The Coming Fifth Amendment Challenge To Net Neutrality Regulation, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Voip Jurisdiction And Regulation: Who Should Regulate The Technology Of Tomorrow? (Panelist), Daniel Lyons Jan 2010

Voip Jurisdiction And Regulation: Who Should Regulate The Technology Of Tomorrow? (Panelist), Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


The Coming Fifth Amendment Challenge To Net Neutrality Regulation, Daniel Lyons Dec 2009

The Coming Fifth Amendment Challenge To Net Neutrality Regulation, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Technology Convergence And Federalism, Daniel Lyons Dec 2008

Technology Convergence And Federalism, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Note: The Lesson Of Lopez: The Political Dynamics Of Federalism's Political Safeguards, Daniel Lyons Nov 2005

Note: The Lesson Of Lopez: The Political Dynamics Of Federalism's Political Safeguards, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.