April 24, 2009 (Communications Networks and Consumer Privacy)

BENTON'S COMMUNICATIONS-RELATED HEADLINES for FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2009

The National Conference of State Legislatures discusses Video Franchise reform today. On Monday, the Broadband Properties Summit meets in Dallas and the CPB Board of Directors meets. For more, see http://benton.org/calendar

PRIVACY
Communications Networks and Consumer Privacy
Congress Questions Cable Ad Venture

GOVERNMENT & COMMUNICATIONS
   Wiretap Said to be Viewed as Serious
   Obama Primetime Press Conference April 29
   Congressional Concerns about Computer Spying
   As US Attorney, Christie Approved Warrantless Tracking Of Suspects Using Cell Phone GPS

THE STIMULUS
   Stimulus Spending Gets a Slow Start, GAO Finds
   US May Raise Cap on Grants for High-Tech Power Grid
   Guidance on Implementing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

INTERNET/BROADBAND
   Internet has only just begun, say founders
   US less connected and creative than ever
   Nielsen Data Offers Real Reason ISPs Are Metering

POLICYMAKERS/AGENDA
   FCC Announces Tentative May 13 Agenda
   Senate vote on Sebelius likely to slip
   Nominees Approved by Commerce Committee
   Verveer May Fill State Dept Telecom Slot
   Memorandum on Regulatory Review
   OSTP Requests Comments on Scientific Integrity

OWNERSHIP
FCC: 30% Cable Cap Is Reasonable Limit To Prevent Program Bottleneck
Software That Copies DVDs to Players Is on Trial

JOURNALISM
   Traffic at Newspaper Sites Soars 10% in Past Year, Nielsen Says
   CBS News Dusts Off Documentary Format
   NPR Cutbacks Include 13 Layoffs
   Broadcasting Board of Governors is Worst Place to Work
   Feds to end some newspaper, magazine subscriptions

COMPANIES
   Cost cuts help tech giants ride out weak economy
   Why AT&T Wants to Keep the iPhone Away From Verizon
   RadioShack Gets Boost From Digital TV Boxes

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PRIVACY

COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS AND CONSUMER PRIVACY
[SOURCE: House of Representatives Commerce Committee]
The House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet held a hearing Thursday focusing on technologies that network operators utilize to monitor consumer usage and how those technologies intersect with consumer privacy. The hearing explored three ways to monitor consumer usage on broadband and wireless networks: deep packet inspection (DPI); new uses for digital set-top boxes; and wireless Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking. Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher (D-VA) said, "Broadband networks are a primary driver of the national economy." It is "fundamentally in the nation's interest to promote their expanded use." He acknowledged that technologies like DPI have beneficial uses for network management and law enforcement. But DPI's potential for invading consumer privacy is "nothing short of frightening," he said. Leslie Harris, President and CEO of CDT, told the Subcommittee that DPI technologies pose a serious challenge to privacy and the openness and innovation of the Internet. Because all applications of DPI raise serious privacy concerns owing to the interception and analysis that's done on all of a user's Internet traffic, policymakers must carefully consider each use of DPI and balance the perceived benefit against the risks to civil liberties, Harris said. CDT believes that only rare uses of DPI will be acceptable after such examination and then only with additional privacy safeguards including enactment of baseline consumer privacy legislation. Chairman Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) restated his intention to introduce a comprehensive consumer privacy bill this year.
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CONGRESS QUESTIONS CABLE AD VENTURE
[SOURCE: Associated Press, AUTHOR: ]
Congress put cable TV operators on notice that it will scrutinize their plans to roll out targeted advertising to viewers, questioning whether they will use set-top boxes sitting in millions of homes to monitor and store what people watch. As part of a broader discussion Thursday over Internet privacy issues, lawmakers at the House subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet brought up cable's newest advertising endeavor called Canoe Ventures. They asked whether, and to what degree, set-top box data will be used to send targeted ads to viewers. That would mean, for instance, that pet food commercials are routed to households likely to have pets, based on a tendency to watch TV shows about animals.The questions come even before Canoe, which was formed by the nation's six largest cable TV operators last year, has launched its first targeted advertisement.
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GOVERNMENT & COMMUNICATIONS

WIRETAP SAID TO BE VIEWED AS SERIOUS
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Mark Mazzetti, Neil Lewis]
The director of the Central Intelligence Agency concluded in late 2005 that a conversation picked up on a government wiretap was serious enough to require notifying Congressional leaders that Rep Jane Harman (D-CA) could become enmeshed in an investigation into Israeli influence in Washington, former government officials said Thursday. But Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told the director of the agency, Porter Goss, to hold off on briefing lawmakers about the conversation, between Rep Harman and an Israeli intelligence operative, despite a longstanding government policy to inform Congressional leaders quickly whenever a member of Congress could be a target of a national security investigation. One reason Gonzales intervened, the former officials said, was to protect Rep Harman because they saw her as a valuable administration ally in urging The New York Times not to publish an article about the National Security Agency's program of wiretapping without warrants.
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PRESIDENT ASKS FOR PRIMETIME SLOT IN SWEEPS
[SOURCE: TVWeek, AUTHOR: Josef Adalian]
For a smart guy, President Obama just doesn't seem to understand how TV works. The President will mark the end of his first 100 days in office with a primetime, televised new conference on Wednesday, April 29. Hello -- what about "Lost"? By scheduling a press conference on the night, the president is positioning himself to directly participate in the debate over his early performance. Programmers have been peeved at President Obama's numerous primetime appearances since taking office, because every speech or press conference results in a loss of ad revenue. The latest appearance falls on the first Wednesday of the May sweeps, which means networks also will have to reschedule some key programming.
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CONGRESSIONAL CONCERNS ABOUT COMPUTER SPYING
[SOURCE: House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, AUTHOR: Rep Ed Towns, Rep Darrell Issa]
In a letter to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, House Oversight Committee Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-NY) Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) requested that the Department of Defense (DOD) provide Committee staff with a briefing regarding a recent news report alleging that computer spies may have infiltrated the DOD's Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program, which is reportedly the most expensive weapons program ever managed by the Department.
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CHRISTIE APPROVED WARRANTLESS CELL PHONE TRACKING
[SOURCE: Think Progress, AUTHOR: Lee Fang]
While serving as a U.S. attorney during the Bush administration, Christopher Christie, now a Republican candidate for Governor in New Jersey, tracked the whereabouts of citizens through their cell phones without warrants. The ACLU obtained the documents detailing the spying program from the Justice Department in an ongoing lawsuit over cell phone tracking.
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THE STIMULUS

STIMULUS SPENDING GETS A SLOW START, GAO FINDS
[SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Louise Radnofsky]
The first official scorecard for the $787 billion economic-stimulus plan shows limited progress in getting out the small portion of money meant for states and communities this fiscal year. The Government Accountability Office, the congressional watchdog charged with monitoring implementation of the plan, reported Thursday that states had yet to spend "significant amounts" of transportation funding. It also said that only three states -- South Dakota, California and Illinois -- had completed the application process for getting aid to plug holes in their budgets under the "State Fiscal Stabilization Fund." They're expected to use most of the money to cover shortfalls in school systems. Vice President Joe Biden, who has been given the task of ensuring that recovery money is spent quickly and effectively, wrote that "stimulative spending is ahead of schedule" in a letter to the Senate homeland-security and governmental-affairs committee, which held hearings on oversight of the plan Thursday. In the letter, Vice President Biden also emphasized the impact of the tax cuts that were included in the recovery act and account for the rest of its cost. He said that a $400-a-year payroll tax credit was already going out to most workers, and that unemployed workers were getting increased benefits. The GAO also reported concerns from state officials that budget cuts and hiring freezes had left them without enough staff to properly implement or manage stimulus projects. In testimony before the Senate committee Thursday, Gene Dodaro, acting U.S. comptroller general, asked the White House Office of Management and Budget to clarify how states could use money from the package for oversight of the projects.
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US MAY RAISE CAP ON GRANTS FOR HIGH-TECH POWER GRID
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Steven Mufson]
The Energy Department might revise its guidelines for $4.5 billion in smart grid grants after major electric utilities complained that the proposed $20 million-per-grant limit was too low to encourage commercial-scale deployment of advanced technologies. The smart grid spending is supposed to both create jobs and improve the efficiency and reliability of the electricity grid by lowering peak demand, reducing energy consumption, integrating more renewable energy sources and easing the pressure to build new coal-fired power plants. A variety of devices may qualify, including meters, grid management software and other equipment. Last week the department unveiled proposed guidelines for its smart grid program, which was part of the stimulus bill President Obama signed into law in February. It said that it would provide grants of $500,000 to $20 million to cover up to 50 percent of the cost of any project deploying smart grid technology. But utilities are saying that if the Obama administration doesn't raise the maximum grant size, it will fail to achieve its twin goals of creating jobs and improving the efficiency and reliability of the electricity grid because it will only stimulate a series of small pilot and demonstration programs.
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GUIDANCE ON IMPLEMENTING THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT
[SOURCE: Office of Management and Budget, AUTHOR: ]
The Office of Management and Budget has published a "interim final guidance" and standard award terms for agencies to include in financial assistance awards
(namely, grants, cooperative agreements, and loans) as part of their implementation of sections of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
(Pub. L. 1115). Under the interim final guidance, agencies would use the standard award terms in their financial assistance awards to require recipients and subrecipients (first-tier that are not individuals) to maintain current registrations in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database; to require recipients to report quarterly on project or activity status, subgrant and subcontract information; to notify recipients of the domestic sourcing (Buy American) requirements that apply to certain iron, steel and manufactured goods; to notify recipients of the wage rate requirements that apply to certain projects; and to ensure proper accounting and reporting of Recovery Act expenditures in single audits.
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INTERNET/BROADBAND

INTERNET HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN, SAY FOUNDERS
[SOURCE: Agence France Presse, AUTHOR: Daniel Silva]
While the Internet has dramatically changed lives around the world, its full impact will only be realized when far more people and information go on-line, its founders said Wednesday. "The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past," said Tim Berners-Lee. "We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet," Vint Cerf. Robert Cailliau, who designed the Web with Berners-Lee in 1989, said having more data on the Internet, and more people with the ability to access it, will spur the development of new technology and solutions to global problems.
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ZEN AND THE ART OF EMAILING
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Vivianne Rodrigues]
Stress-reduction expert Soren Gordhamer contends that this widespread of use of technology is actually making the United States less connected and creative than ever. One of his key messages is that there is something missing in the lives of millions of anxious techno-users across the country. "The something that is missing is not more tools or technologies, but the state of our consciousness," Gordhamer writes. "It is the lack of connection to the place inside us of ease and focus -- the creative mind." "We can now spend all of our waking life connected to technology," he writes. "This is both great and terrible. It is great because no matter if we are a morning or an evening person, the Internet is available. However, this is terrible because there is really no time we consider not going online."
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NIELSEN DATA OFFERS REAL REASON ISPs ARE METERING
[SOURCE: GigaOm, AUTHOR: Stacey Higginbotham]
A report out today from Nielsen shows why Internet Service Providers and telecommunications equipment vendors are increasingly demonizing video: it consumes a lot of bandwidth, and could compete with an ISP's existing video businesses. But the worst part is that it's rapidly becoming more popular to the average consumer.
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POLICYMAKERS/AGENDA

FCC ANNOUNCES TENTATIVE AGENDA FOR MAY 13, 2009 OPEN MEETING
[SOURCE: Federal Communications Commission]
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Copps has circulated the following items for consideration by his fellow FCC Commissioners as the tentative agenda for the next open Commission meeting scheduled for Wednesday, May 13, 2009: 1) IP-Enabled Services -- A Report and Order on discontinuance requirements for interconnected VoIP providers. 2) Local Number Portability -- A Report and Order on the local number portability porting interval for wireline-to-wireline and intermodal port requests. 3) Fiscal Year 2009 Regulatory Fees -- A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Order on the assessment and collection of regulatory fees for Fiscal Year 2009. In addition, FCC staff will present a status report on the DTV transition 30 days from the June 12 deadline and an action plan for helping consumers navigate the end of full-power analog broadcast service.
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SENATE VOTE ON SEBELIUS LIKELY TO SLIP
[SOURCE: Associated Press, AUTHOR: ]
Although the Senate Finance Committee approved the nomination of Gov Kathleen Sebelius (D-Kansas) on Tuesday, Republican Senators are holding up a final confirmation vote. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will probably have to invoke Senate procedures requiring 60 votes to move forward, which would likely happen next week. Democrats say they have the necessary votes.
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NOMINEES APPROVED BY COMMERCE COMMITTEE
[SOURCE: US Senate Commerce Committee]
The Senate Commerce Committee approved the nominations of several nominees Thursday including: Sherburne B. Abbott, to be Associate Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the Executive Office of the President; April S. Boyd, to be Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs at the U.S. Department of Commerce; and Cameron Kerry, to be General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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VERVEER MAY FILL STATE DEPT TELECOM SLOT
[SOURCE: CongressDaily, AUTHOR: Andrew Noyes]
In the next few months it is expected that Philip Verveer will become the State Department's next U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy. Verveer is currently counsel at the firm Jenner & Block's litigation department. He is also a member of the firm's communications practice with a focus on regulatory and antitrust issues. Verveer has nearly three decades advising clients on communication regulatory issues before Congress, the FCC, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Office of U.S. Trade Representative, Federal Trade Commission, the State Department, and the Committee on Foreign Investment.
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MEMORANDUM ON REGULATORY REVIEW
[SOURCE: The White House]
President Barack Obama has directed the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with representatives of regulatory agencies, as appropriate, to produce within 100 days a set of recommendations for a new Executive Order on Federal regulatory review. Among other things, the recommendations should offer suggestions for the relationship between Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) and the agencies; provide guidance on disclosure and transparency; encourage public participation in agency regulatory processes; offer suggestions on the role of cost-benefit analysis; address the role of distributional considerations, fairness, and concern for the interests of future generations; identify methods of ensuring that regulatory review does not produce undue delay; clarify the role of the behavioral sciences in formulating regulatory policy; and identify the best tools for achieving public goals through the regulatory process.
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OSTP REQUESTS COMMENTS ON SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY
[SOURCE: Office of Science and Technology Policy, AUTHOR: M. David Hodge]
On March 9, 2009, the President issued a memorandum for the heads of executive departments and agencies on the subject of scientific integrity. The memorandum requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to craft recommendations for Presidential action to ensure scientific integrity in the executive branch. This notice solicits public input to inform the drafting of those recommendations. The notice asks a series of questions to help guide the public in responding to this request. Comments from the public will help the OSTP determine what should be included in these recommendations. Respondents are invited to suggest: 1) Recommendations that would be responsive to the aims of the President, 2) specific implementing strategies, and 3) data and empirical evidence related to the effectiveness of strategies to promote scientific integrity. OSTP will receive comments through May 13, 2009.
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OWNERSHIP

FCC: 30% CAP IS REASONABLE LIMIT TO PREVENT PROGRAM BOTTLENECK
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The Federal Communications Commission plans to tell a federal court Friday that it was simply following Congress's direction to place "reasonable limits" on the number of subs a single subscriber can serve when it decided in December 2007 to reinstate the 30% cap on cable subscribership. Rather than a speech restriction, as cable contends, it was a "content-neutral" regulation, says the FCC. The commission will square off with Comcast in oral argument in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Comcast's challenge to that decision. According to the FCC's brief in the case, it chose a cap that "reasonably prevents any once cable operator from impeding the flow of video programming to consumers," and one based on "sound economic theory, substantial record evidence, and common sense." Comcast, in turn, will tell the judges that the FCC's re-imposition of the 30% cap on one cable operators national household reach is a "speech limit" that is unconstitutional, beyond the commission's authority, arbitrary and capricious, and contrary to the DC court's own instructions.
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SOFTWARE THAT COPIES DVDs TO PLAYERS IS ON TRIAL
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Brad Stone]
RealNetworks says it wants to help increase DVD sales by allowing people to copy their movie discs. Hollywood studios say that idea will only hurt their already struggling business. The two sides square off in a federal court here on Friday to determine who prevails. The case is ostensibly about RealDVD, a $30 software program that allows users to save digital copies of Hollywood DVDs to their computers — a capability the movie industry strenuously objects to, worrying that it will stimulate piracy and undermine the budding market for digital downloads. But the outcome of the trial, set against the backdrop of plummeting DVD sales, could also have more far-reaching effects on the future capabilities of the DVD player — a device connected to millions of television sets. RealNetworks is also developing DVD-saving software that it hoped to license to manufacturers of DVD players which would allow DVD players to make digital copies of all discs, even movie DVDs that have anticopying software, called CSS. The owners of those devices could save copies of their DVDs to watch later — much as people use digital video recorders like TiVo to save live television programs.
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JOURNALISM

TRAFFIC AT NEWSPAPER SITES SOARS 10% IN PAST YEAR
[SOURCE: Editor&Publisher, AUTHOR: Jennifer Saba]
According to Nielsen Online, the number of people visiting newspaper Web sites hit a new high in Q1 with an average of 73.3 million unique users, a 10.5% jump compared to the same period a year ago. People with post graduate degrees -- 34% -- visited a newspaper Web site in the past week, while 87% of that group either visited a newspaper Web site or read a print edition of the newspapers in the last seven days. Twenty eight percent of those with a household income of $100,000 or more have visited a newspaper Web site in the last seven days. Readership is pushed even higher when the print edition is factored in: Nearly 83% of adults with a household income of $100,000-plus either read the print edition or visited a newspaper Web site in the last seven days.
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CBS NEWS DUSTS OFF DOCUMENTARY FORMAT
[SOURCE: Associated Press, AUTHOR: David Bauder]
CBS News is dusting off one of the most storied brands in its history: the documentary series "CBS Reports." It will use the format for several stories on how the economic meltdown is affecting children. The network will report extensively on the topic for a week in May on its morning and evening newscasts, on "Face the Nation," and on its website. So far, what's missing is what "CBS Reports" actually was: a prime-time documentary. Traditional documentaries have all but disappeared from prime-time television, as they're not considered competitive in the ratings with entertainment programming. Except for "60 Minutes," most prime-time news programming tends to be true-crime yarns or sociology experiments.
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NPR CUTBACKS INCLUDE 13 LAYOFFS
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Paul Farhi]
National Public Radio said yesterday it will lay off 13 employees and furlough all of its employees for five days over the next five months in the latest round of belt-tightening by the Washington-based organization. The cuts are part of a series of measures that will help NPR close a projected $8 million budget gap during its current fiscal year, and $15 million over the next two years. In addition to the furloughs, employees also will not be paid for three holidays (Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day) this year, and three more when its new fiscal year begins on Oct. 1. Like many news-media organizations, NPR has been grappling with reduced revenue; in December, as its fiscal crisis deepened, it laid off 64 employees, or 7 percent of the staff, and eliminated two daily radio programs. It was NPR's first layoff in 25 years. The latest job cuts were in the information technology, legal services and communications departments and won't affect programming, NPR said.
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BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORS IS WORST PLACE TO WORK
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Joe Davidson]
The Broadcasting Board of Governors -- which oversees Washington's international broadcasting operations, including the Voice of America -- is rated one of the worst places to work by federal employees in a survey conducted by the Office of Personnel Management. In a poll of employees in 37 agencies, the BBG came in last place in three of four categories -- leadership and knowledge management, results-oriented performance, and talent management. The broadcasters did manage a 36th-place showing in job satisfaction. To make matters worse, the agency dropped in each of the categories from the previous survey.
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FEDS TO END SOME NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS
[SOURCE: Associated Press, AUTHOR: Suzanne Gamboa]
The Homeland Security Department is dropping some newspaper and magazine subscriptions to save money. The agency has told its employees to cancel subscriptions to general interest newspapers such as The New York Times and The Washington Post and to magazines such as Newsweek and Time by April 27. Future subscriptions will have to be authorized in advance. The department says employees will still have access to news because most publications can be found online on an in-house Web site. Limited subscriptions to those that aren't online will be kept in a public area and shared, cutting mail screening and delivery costs.
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COMPANIES

COST CUTS HELP TECH GIANTS RIDE OUT WEAK ECONOMY
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Gabriel Madway]
A solid crop of earnings reports from the leading lights of technology suggests the sector is proving adept at cost cuts and more resilient to the economic meltdown than previously thought. While executives from Apple, Google, IBM and Intel were almost uniformly cautious in talking about the rest of the year, they all reported quarterly profits that beat Wall Street expectations.With corporate and consumer spending under pressure, analysts say many tech companies moved swiftly to slash jobs and output -- positioning themselves for growth when a bottom is reached, which some say may have happened already.
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WHY AT&T WANTS TO KEEP THE IPHONE AWAY FROM VERIZON
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Saul Hansell]
AT&T's earnings report on Wednesday highlights the enormous stakes involved in the renewal of its exclusive contract to distribute Apple's iPhone in the United States. AT&T is paying Apple an unusually high subsidy on top of the $199 and $299 paid by iPhone buyers. But it appears to be getting quite a return on that investment. IPhone customers are particularly valuable, mainly because they also buy expensive data plans. Their average bill is $94 a month, 60 percent higher than the company's overall customer base. Data represented 27 percent of AT&T's $11.7 billion in wireless revenue in the quarter, up from 22 percent a year ago. If the average iPhone customer brings in $90 a month, or $1,080 a year in revenue, and the operating profit margin stays constant at 26 percent, that means an iPhone customer represents at least $561 in operating profit over a two-year contract. That probably understates the impact because iPhone customers have higher-than-average profit margins. Put another way, if the company gets 2.5 million new customers a year because of its iPhone exclusivity, the deal represents at least $700 million a year in operating profits — profits that it could lose if Verizon sold the iPhone, too.
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RADIOSHACK GETS BOOST FROM DIGITAL TV BOXES
[SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Mary Ellen Lloyd]
While a surge in sales of digital-TV converter boxes fueled a comeback for RadioShack Corp.'s first-quarter results, Wall Street's key concern remains how the gadgets retailer will keep the momentum going. RadioShack reported encouraging signs of a turnaround in its wireless phone business, attributing the gains to changes it made late last year in its store layout and in merchandising. But excluding converter boxes and mobile phones, RadioShack's sales continued to decline, and the benefit from converter boxes should wane after the June 12 deadline for switching from analog to digital broadcast signals.
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