we have a special guest joining us, harvard law visiting professor and author, susan crawford, visitingrom boston. she is the author of "captive audience." susan, thank you so much for joining us. so, what do you think? is the sprint t-mobile merger good for consumers? >> price war is always good for consumers, which is what the sprint ceo is promising. what is really going on here is a fight over the enterprise market. they want to gain shares there. basically, we will have a lot of price-cutting in the consumer market no matter what happens. this guy says he can take a chunk of the enterprise market if you just let me in. otherwise t-mobile will just keep cutting prices and making it more difficult for him to enter into the enterprise market area and -- market. businesss higher-margin? why is that the goal? >> it is the goal because the consumer market is pretty thoroughly saturated. just about everybody has smartphones. there is very little growth right now. it is a fight over existing market share. prices are going to be going down. t-mobile is doing that right now with its lot -- w

visitingd law professor and author, susan crawford.discuss bitcoin and virtual currencies when we return. ♪ best ofme back to the bloomberg west. i am emily chang. prevents customers from targeting the bank for their bank accounts. here is the word on the future of virtual currency. what you think of this whole bitcoin thing? >> who cares? i really think this is a fun story to look at, but it is investors. it is not relevant very to the important thing to recognize is that there are really important ideas that do develop over time. it is hard to get some of them right area to there are very few things in our economy harder to get right than a currency. >> use a bitcoin does not matter? >> who founded them does not matter either. it matters even less. i think there are at least three problems you have to solve to make any currency work, whether it is digital or not. solve, whichdid was really brilliant, was that they built a global network that was completely independent of today's financial system. that was a really hard problem to sol

author susan crawford joins us and dave schaeffer. me start with you on how the internet works. i feel like it was different than even 10 years ago when there were companies. there are fewer and fewer ways to get online. >> for most americans, 80%, their only chance for high-capacity is their local cable monopoly. they have huge power. both for users and for the networks that want to connect to comcast and time warner cable to reach you. >> put together some graphics to explain it. i want to pull it to gather. the way the internet has tended to work was when ever you wanted to go to as a user whether aol or yahoo! or netflix, you would go online and be able to see the things and you have equal access. you could use whatever you wanted it. the business does not fit into your home. there's a dramatic development recently. netflix struck a deal with comcast to get there on the fast lane ahead of the competitors in leaving everybody in the dust. can you tell me what happened? >> the internet is a network of networks. they are interconnect

. >> susan crawford, visiting professor and author of "captive audience." thank you for joining us on "bloomberg west." >> titan fall is out today. >> they want to boost sales of the xbox one. >> you can watch us streaming on your phone, tablet, and on bloomberg.com. >> microsoft is betting and online multiplayer game "titanfall" will help supercharge sales of the xbox one. the sci-fi combat game is being offered in bundle with the xbox one. you have got an xbox. are you excited? >> i kind of need a new game right now. i decided to dive in and get an xbox or i can cover this better. i find the games fairly obsessive. a lot of people are optimistic about this particular game. they are optimistic about the prospect helps sell the xbox. it appears to be out selling -- there is another device that appears to be outselling xbox one. >> what we hear from some people is that we are seeing twice as much in terms of sales of the playstation than the xbox. the playstation is cheaper. >> with us to discuss is our guest. he covers the gaming industry. also with us in n

breaking thirty first in the world when it comes to global download speeds thirty first well susan crawford a former special assistant to president obama first sign. it's technology and innovation told b.b.c. that it's because quote we deregulated high speed internet access ten years ago and since then we've seen enormous consolidation and monopolies left to their own devices companies that supply internet access will charge high prices because they face major competition nor oversight. now crawford went on to say that the complete lack of market action in the space has kept prices artificially high speeds low and infrastructure outdated thus you're a boy a stone and the islands i didn't know what they were either they're all ahead of america when it comes to global consumer download speeds it's very very true not to mention high speed internet in the us cost nearly three times as much as it does in the u.k. and france and more than five times as much as it doesn't south korea which by the way ranks fourth for consumer downloads just behind hong kong singapore and romania who rounded out th

susan. >>> the supreme court is considering a challenge to the president's health care overhaul. at issue, is the plan's guarantee of birth control and whether companies have the right to say no. jan crawford reports. >> reporter: the arguments were unusually intense and divisive. the court's three female justices all liberal defended the law and dismissed arguments by business owners that the contraceptive coverage requirement violates religious freedom. most forceful was justice elena kagan, a former top lawyer in the obama administration who clashed repeatedly with attorney paul clement. kagan said if business owners could object to birth control coverage based on religious grounds, what about the next case? suppose an employer refuses to fund vaccinations for her employees or blood transfusions. one religious group could opt out of this and another could opt oust that and everything would be piecemeal. clement pushed back saying those cases were different. his clients provide coverage for most birth control methods and argue the government should make an exception in the law so they would not have to cover for a pill and devices to preconvenient the implant of an embryo in the wound. >