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Administrative Law

Daniel Lyons

2016

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Full-Text Articles in Communications Law

Usage-Based Pricing, Zero-Rating, And The Future Of Broadband Innovation, Daniel A. Lyons Feb 2016

Usage-Based Pricing, Zero-Rating, And The Future Of Broadband Innovation, Daniel A. Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Title Ii Reclassification Is Rate Regulation, Daniel A. Lyons Feb 2016

Title Ii Reclassification Is Rate Regulation, Daniel A. Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.


Innovations In Mobile Broadband Pricing, Daniel Lyons Dec 2015

Innovations In Mobile Broadband Pricing, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

The FCC’s net neutrality rules sought to limit interference by broadband service providers in markets for Internet-based content and applications. But to do so, the Commission significantly reduced the amount of innovation possible in the broadband service market. Within limits, broadband providers may offer different plans that vary the quantity of service available to customers, as well as the quality of that service. But they generally cannot vary the service itself: with limited exceptions, broadband providers must offer customers access to all lawful Internet traffic, or none at all. 

This Article explores the way in which this all-or-nothing homogenization of the American broadband product differs from innovative experiments taking …