Two clichés sum up the telecommunications policy world for the past half dozen years. First, the only constant is change. Second, the more things change, the more they stay the same. The main topics of debate have turned, in just three years, from unbundled network elements and “open access” to video franchising reform and “net neutrality.” But the deep structure of the debate remains eerily fa...

Introduction. Charge quantization and atom neutrality in the Standard Model (SM) are mysteries which are automatically solved when the theory is embedded in a Grand Unified group. Even then, Witten has shown [1] that in the presence of CP non-conservation magnetic monopoles acquire an electric charge that is proportional to the amount of CP violation, a non-quantized quantity. This suggests tha...

We propose two generalizations of the Banzhaf value for partition function form games. In both cases our approach is based on probability distributions over the set of coalition structures that may arise for any given set of players. First, we introduce a family of values, one for each collection of these latter probability distributions, defined as the Banzhaf value of a coalitional game obtai...

Much of the policy debate and scholarly literature on network neutrality has addressed whether the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) has statutory authority to require Internet Service Providers (“ISPs”) to operate in a nondiscriminatory manner. Such analysis largely focuses on questions about jurisdiction, the scope of lawful regulation, and the balance of power between stakeholders—ge...

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The r−n interaction energy, 1 ≤ n < 3, for a infinitely periodic system with explicit charges and a neutralizing, uniform background charge density is derived. An Ewald based expression for this energy has an extra term proportional to the square of the total explicit charges of the system. This expression may be useful for simulations in which explicit charge neutrality does not hold or for wh...

The ongoing debate about possible implementation of regulatory rules requiring “network neutrality” for wireless telecommunications services is inherently about whether to impose a prohibition on the ability of network operators to control their vertical relationships. Antitrust analysis is well suited to analyze whether a wireless network neutrality rule is socially beneficial. Implementing ne...

The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) highly anticipated Open Internet Order, released on March 12, 2015,1 was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on June 14, 2016.2 The Order for the first time imposed common carrier regulation on providers of fixed and mobile services that provide mass-market Internet access to households and businesses. Previously, consis...

In order to structure the debate on the democratic potentials of digital information technology Hubertus Buchstein in 1996 created three ideal types, net optimism, net pessimism and net neutrality. In this study the viability of these positions is put under scrutiny from a current viewpoint. As a result, it should be noted that all positions, however, contain both elements that are still viable...