“US Spectrum Disconnect – AT&T Drops Bid to Acquire T-Mobile USA,” Silicon Republic, Dec. 20, 2011. Larry’s statement on the collapse of the AT&T/T-Mobile deal is quoted at length in this analysis of the future of U.S. spectrum policy.

“Larry Downes on SOPA,” National Review, Nov. 2, 2011. Kind words from National Review’s Reihan Salam on Larry’s analysis of the Stop Online Piracy Act.

2011 has already been filled with important developments in the technology world, and I continue to be a regular source for journalists as well as publishing frequent editorials and analyses of my own. I’ve just posted several new items to the Media Page of my website, including articles I’ve written for CNET News.com and for [...]

I published an article for CNET late last night on a spirited debate at CES yesterday over the FCC’s recently-enacted “open Internet” rules, aka net neutrality.  Panelists from the FCC, Congress, AT&T, Verizon, Google and the Center for Democracy and Technology actually agreed on one point, which is that the neutrality saga has only completed [...]

“A Non-Specific Net Neutrality Proposal”, Reason December 1, 2010. Larry spoke with Reason Magazine’s Peter Suderman about the FCC’s December agenda and what it really meant.

At the last possible moment before the Christmas holiday, the FCC published its Report and Order on “Preserving the Open Internet,” capping off years of largely content-free “debate” on the subject of whether or not the agency needed to step in to save the Internet. In the end, only FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski fully supported [...]

At ten A.M. this morning, CNET News.com asked if I could write an article unraveling the legal implications of a rumored deal between Google and Verizon on net neutrality.  I didn’t see how I could analyze a deal whose terms (and indeed, whose existence) are unknown, but I thought it was a good opportunity to [...]

With some immodesty, I point to two essay/reviews of “The Laws of Disruption” by strategy and technology consultant Robert Keahey.  In the first, Keahey echoes my view that given the growing intrusion of law into innovation, reliance on legal counsel separate from strategic integration is a dangerous mistake: I think the book should be required [...]

I’ll be participating in a panel discussion at the Chapman Law School in Orange, CA on March 29th at noon. The panel is titled, “Internet ‘Neutrality’: Reform or ‘Fairness Doctrine Censorship.” If you’re in the area, please try to attend.

“First Friday Book Synopsis”, Robert Morris, Jan. 28, 2010. An excerpt from Larry’s interview with Robert Morris, business book review extraordinaire.