Susan Crawford

Former Exec VP/CFO

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Chicago Is Your Big (Friendly) Brother

A few dozen boxes on light poles are about to change the way Chicago works.

June 19, 2014

June 19, 2014

OpinionSusan Crawford

Chicago Is Your Big (Friendly) Brother

A few dozen boxes on light poles are about to change the way Chicago works.

This box can read your thoughts. OK, not quite, but close.

June 10, 2014

June 10, 2014

OpinionSusan Crawford

Don't Let Sprint Buy T-Mobile

A triopoly isn't necessarily better for competition than a duopoly.

May 20, 2014

May 20, 2014

OpinionSusan Crawford

AT&T and DirecTV Team Up Against Customers

An AT&T-DirecTV merger wouldn't help innovation, serve customers or advance the country's telecommunications infrastructure.

May 2, 2014

May 2, 2014

OpinionSusan Crawford

Don't Let the Feds Rummage Through Cell Phones

The police have good reason to want to be able to check mobile phones. But there need to be limits.

Photographer: John Moore/Getty Images

April 9, 2014

April 9, 2014

OpinionSusan Crawford

Comcast Pretends to Be on Your Side

The 174-page report Comcast Corp. filed yesterday with the Federal Communications Commission to support its merger plan pretends to offer many gifts to the public interest, but each has a cost.

Comcast likes this deal with Time Warner because it's very horizontal. Like this photo. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

March 26, 2014

March 26, 2014

OpinionSusan Crawford

Comcast's Power Unveiled, Courtesy of Apple

For a perfect picture of Internet access market power, unconstrained by competition or oversight, look at this week's rumor that Comcast is talking with Apple about developing a new window on television programming.

Comcast could make a new Apple device indispensable to its subscribers. Photographer: Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg

March 11, 2014

March 11, 2014

OpinionSusan Crawford

Release the Drones

The Federal Aviation Administration has been asserting for years that it has broad authority over drones but still hasn't been able to come up with any rules covering their use. States should move ahead on their own.

Ready or not ... Photographer: Martin Divisek/Bloomberg

February 24, 2014

February 24, 2014

OpinionSusan Crawford

Introducing the Comcast Tax

Comcast's deal to charge Netflix for access to the network shows that Comcast can exert arbitrary pricing power over all communications with little fear of government intervention.

As Comcast builds a moat around its subscribers, Netflix is paying to get in. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg