My Home About Me

Microsoft has led the charge for so-called "net neutrality," a new regime of broadband carrier regulation designed to throttle Internet content competition from telephone companies and cable operators. Telecom guru Scott Cleland thinks that Microsoft had better think twice before it throws too many regulatory stones from its glass house:

Microsoft has much more to lose than gain from Net Neutrality. Just like it’s never smart to play with matches in a windy weather when you own a forest, it’s never smart to push for permanent regulation of market power when the political winds are blowing much more regulatory and your company has more market power than any other...

By any measure compared to Microsoft, broadband markets are vastly more competitive and fragmented than Microsoft’s core markets. No broadband company has anywhere near Microsoft’s depth or breadth of market share, nationally and internationally, and in both consumer and business markets.

Is Microsoft implicitly asking for permanent regulation of its operating system and Office?

Thanks to my DC lawyer/lobbyist friend for the link.

bailout   Basic Materials SPDR (XLB)   bond trading   bond yields   capitulation   climactic   commodities   credit crisis   credit crunch   Currency ETFs   day trading   Deron Wagner   DJIA chart   economic data   Emini's Nas 100   emini's S&P 500   emini's S&P 500e   ETFs (exchange trade funds)   ETFs (exchange traded funds)   Gold Miners ETF (GDX)