Mr. Watson, Come Here. I Want To See You: A Message From the Communications Industries on How To Promote Competition in the Online Platform Space

The “legacy” communications industries — plain old telephone service, fixed and mobile broadband access, cable and satellite video distribution — afford two useful teachings for a way forward in the Google search engine antitrust case, including a way past the conundrums presented by the complaint filed against Google by the Department of Justice. First, be careful not to throw out the baby of the competition you want with the bathwater of the exclusivity arrangements you do not like. Se