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The Telmarc Group PROGRESSIVISM, INDIVIDUALISM, AND THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL argument also included the assertion that there were minority partners; we were already buying them out at NYNEX at that time, so that too held no merit. Third, I had stated that disaggregation was to become a dominant approach, further eliminating scope. Disaggregation is also known as outsourcing, need one say more. He allegedly denied that also. Fourth, I stated that there were de minimis scale economies in the CDMA architectures. Simply stated, scale economies mean that the cost per new unit drops the more number of units you produce. I showed that using a CDMA fabric that in a real design scenario, namely really and truly building something, that if you took the capital per new customer as a function of the total customers supplied, that there was de minimis change just after a short while, thus no scale economies in capital plant. This was not brain surgery, this was not economics, this was just using facts, and real numbers for real builds. To support his payer of fees, Hausman, allegedly rejected this set of facts. One could then take the disaggregation fact and also say that to an operator, the disaggregator may have reached scale, and thus by outsourcing scale can be achieved for any supplies, and thus for the supplies there is no economy of scale. Fifth, I stated that the incumbents were clearly barriers to entry for any new player. Well, this is now history not conjecture, NYNEX is owned by Verizon and Pacific Telesis by AT&T, so history tells a story for which I had predicted an outcome. I was not paid by an incumbent for at that time I was personally financing my entry into the business, yet Hausman was apparently a paid expert. Thus, is this quasi Public Intellectual to be believed as an unbiased purveyor of what should be done in the Internet market 28 ? Or, when being paid to support an adversary and be an advocate, can one reasonably assume that such a Public Intellectual is nothing more than a voice for that adversary. In my opinion, this taints both the clarity and the integrity of such works as purely academic and makes it merely a service for hire." In fact, one may wonder why did Pacific Telesis even spend so much money attempting to discredit my work by a quasi Public Intellectual who had no technical or operational expertise? Why would so prominent an academic put his alleged reputation on the line to rebut a paper presented at a working conference? He clearly spent hours on this report. He was apparently compensated, and most likely if so compensated then compensated very well. Yet, it then may, in my opinion, call into question the remainder of his work, for if one seeks to gain ongoing compensation of this type, then one would most likely assume that one would have to continue in his professional work to reflect a set of opinions consistent with those of his erstwhile financial backers. 28 One should also look at a recent book in which Hausman opines on the Internet and Broadband. The book is Broadband, by Crandall and Alleman, AEI-Brookings, 2002. Page 38
The Telmarc Group PROGRESSIVISM, INDIVIDUALISM, AND THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL If that logic follows, then what independence can one expect, for the academic is always writing in anticipation of a future fee, not writing to seek the truth, whatever that is and wherever that may lead. 2.6 ECONOMISTS AND LAWYERS VS. TECHNOLOGISTS AND BUSINESS PEOPLE In the apace of Public Intellectuals there will always be tensions based upon world views. We provide here a simple example in the issue space of Net Neutrality but this example will extend across the spectrum to many other cases. In the domain of Net Neutrality, there clearly is a tension in the market of Public Intellectuals between Lawyers and their allies the Economists and in urn the people who make things work, the Engineers and Business People. One group is looking backward versus another looking forward, one for establishing “rules” vs the other for finding ways around them. One needs look to the wonderfully perceptive paper by Rob Frieden, Revenge of the Bell Heads, to see how this battle has worked out 29 . Frieden is quite knowledgeable of this community of Bell Heads and Net Heads, those brought up in the world of the old Bell System and those brought recently into the world of the Internet. Consider it Verizon versus Google, Washington and New York versus Silicon Valley, lawyers and suits versus beards and engineering degrees. Frieden wrote this in the 2001 time frame, just as the obvious sets of conflicts were starting. The old Bell System is in many ways like the Catholic Church, it has its Pope, Cardinals, Bishops, Monsignors, Pastors, and is a highly structured environment. Everyone has a place and they know their place. Everyone has accepted the tenets of the religion or they are expelled, truth and reality have no place, for truth and reality can be molded by the institution, it does not exists extra the institution. Yet, on the Public Intellectual side of the Net Heads, there has grown up a strong base of attorneys. One must remember, however, that attorneys are fundamentally people trained in an adversarial system, at least in the US and in English law countries. They have to take a side and then go to war over their positions. Attorneys represent their clients, a strange thing for an erstwhile Public Intellectual, one who we would think was opining on their own insights, for lawyers generally opine solely for and in the interest of their clients. In addition, the lawyer Public Intellectual, besides being an advocate, and adversary, is totally reliant on third parties for establishing the basis for their case, unless they rely solely upon the existing law and the decisions rendered therefrom. 29 http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CY/0109035 Rob Frieden, Revenge of the Bell Heads: How the Net Heads lost Control of the Internet, TPRC, September 2001. Page 39
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