When the FCC kicked-off its net neutrality proceeding in 2009, it labeled the proceeding “Preserving the Open Internet.” But to “preserve” means to “make lasting” or “maintain” rather than “change,” and that’s what many public interest advocates really want to do – change the way the Internet currently operates. For them at least, renaming “change” as “preservation” is classic doublespeak designed to disguise the real intent of net neutrality regulation. Read the rest of this entry »
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Google’s Win-Win-Win Net Neutrality Agreement with Verizon
It’s not often that a company wins the triple-crown like Google did in its recent “agreement” with Verizon regarding net neutrality. But, then again, it’s not often that the FCC is betting so publicly for a particular company’s horse as the FCC has been with Google and net neutrality. So what are the three wins for Google? Read the rest of this entry »
An Analysis of the FCC’s Proposed Net Neutrality Rules: The End of Business Model Innovation in Mobile Wireless Broadband
“You don’t know how hard I found it, signing the order to terminate your life.” Governor Tarkin, Star Wars (1977).
With all of the emphasis on technology innovation in the net neutrality NPRM, it hardly mentions innovation in business models. Perhaps business model innovation is simply underappreciated in an era in which shiny new technologies are introduced so frequently. Knowledge@Wharton has said that “[o]ne of the most common misconceptions is that innovation is primarily, if not exclusively, about changing technology.” As the FCC recognized in its Wireless Innovation NOI, however, companies innovate with their business models as well as with their products and services, and use business model innovation (“BMI”) to achieve and sustain competitive advantage. Indeed, a majority of executives now believe that BMI is even more important to creating new and differentiated value than product or service innovation. According to Samuel Palmisano, “with product [or service] innovation, it’s a certainty that your competition is shortly going to copy what you have done. . . . With business-model innovation, though, if you can come up with a unique way of doing things, it’s much tougher to react to.” Technology alone is not the fundamental engine of innovation.
Technology and business model innovation typically occur together. This can be seen in the mobile wireless broadband market, where the technological transition to next generation mobile wireless broadband is driving tremendous business model innovation and experimentation. As a result, mobile wireless broadband platform providers are experimenting with many different business models as they try to determine how to best leverage new mobile wireless broadband technologies and differentiate their services from competitors. The (non-exhaustive) mobile wireless broadband business models outlined below demonstrate the diversity in innovative business approaches to this market. Read the rest of this entry »
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