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• Content Delivery Networks and Network Neutrality: Net Is Not Neutral

  
  IP Carrier — Authority: 479
  Much discussion about network neutrality seems to assume that the issue is bit or application "blocking," and from one perspective that is correct. The existing Federal Communications Commission rules about a users right to use all lawful applications already prohibit blocking of legal applications on wired networks. ...
  1 day ago

• Do Usage Caps for Wireless and Mobile Broadband Make Sense?

  
  IP Carrier — Authority: 479
  Consumers say 60 percent of the wireless broadband decision is based on two factors: monthly recurring charge and existence or size of a usage cap. For that reason, "data caps" are a particularly unfriendly way to manage overall traffic, says Yankee Group analyst Philip Marshall.  A better approach, from a ...
  5 days ago

• The Tradegy of the Commons

  
  Simon Whatley — Authority: 112
  The tragedy of the commons refers to a dilemma described in an influential article by that name written by Garrett Hardin and first published in the journal Science in 1968. The article describes a situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently, and solely and rationally consulting their own ...
  6 days ago

• The sad Broadband workshop…

  
  LIRNEasia — Authority: 132
  We reproduce fully below, Carlos A. Afonso’s post to a thread on Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility responding to discussions at the IGF workshop “Expanding broadband access for a global Internet economy: development dimensions”, in which Rohan Samarajiva, Chair/CEO LIRNEasia was the keynote ...
  1 week ago

• If You Wanted to Build a National 100-Mbps Access Network, Could You?

  
  IP Carrier — Authority: 479
  The Federal Communications Commission says it will cost $350 billion to build a single, nationally available broadband access network operating at 100 Mbps and reaching virtually every American. The FCC also says it is studying whether telcos and cable companies should be forced to offer open access to third parties ...
  1 week ago

• Thanks to Newsweek for Having Me at News/Geek

  
  shouting loudly — Authority: 112
  Just a quick, 24-hours-overdue thanks to the folks at the Newsweek Dev Team for hosting me last night at their third News/Geek event. I had a rollicking good time, the questions were awesome, and the post-talk celebration was even better. If you want the Powerpoint, it’s here in all its 12.2 MB glory . ...
  1 week ago

• Net Neutrality Debate Tonight

  
  CableTechTalk — Authority: 113
  NCTA’s Executive Vice President, James Assey, will be participating tonight in an Oxford-style debate on net neutrality, presented by Tech Debate as part of Web 2.0 Expo New York . The participants will debate the motion “ A network neutrality law is necessary. “ Arguing for the motion will be ...
  1 week ago

• Net Neutrality Hard To Enforce

  
  CommLawBlog — Authority: 124
  FCC’s proposed rules good on paper, may do little in practice The IEEE, a widely respected association of electrical engineers, posted the reflections of FH&H lawyer (and former engineer) Mitchell Lazarus on why the FCC’s proposed network neutrality rules may miss their target.  Read the piece here: ...
  1 week ago

• Academic slams Harvard/FCC open internet study

  
  | OfcomWatch | — Authority: 113
  Today is the deadline for submitting comments on the FCC’s study (prepared by the Harvard Berkman Center under the leadership of Yochai Benkler) as it relates to the National Broadband Plan.  So, yeah, only nerds are interested, but late last week an economist (George S. Ford) came out with a scathing attack on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Deindexing Murdoch

  
  Netizen — Authority: 127
  For Murdoch to deindex from Google and to ask Bing to pay to be able to index, that goes against the basic ethos of the internet. This goes against the spirit of Net neutrality .  Google paying to Twitter is not the same thing. Because Twitter does real time search, Google does not do real time search, so ...
  2 weeks ago

• Harmonies on Net Neutrality

  
  The Copyright Alliance Blog — Authority: 120
  I had the pleasure of attending an interesting conference yesterday hosted by the Institute for Policy Innovation on broadband policy, a timely topic here in D.C. You can watch most of it on this C-SPAN recording ; in an obvious conspiracy, the one panel C-SPAN chose not to videotape was the first one, in which I was ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Reminder of What “Net Neutrality” Is Really About

  
  CableTechTalk — Authority: 113
  More than a year ago, I put up a post expressing my pleasure about how the “net neutrality” discussion had evolved over time . Specifically, I focused on the comments of Vint Cerf between 2006 and 2008, when he seemed to move from arguing that the Internet must be “open and neutral,” to saying that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Does "Open Access" Lead to More or Less Consumption of Broadband?

  
  IP Carrier — Authority: 479
  Samuel Clemens famously quipped that there are "dies, damned lies and statistics." Something like that seems to be at the heart of conflicting analyses of the impact of widespread open access requirements on consumer buying of broadband access services. The Berkman Center for Internet & Society suggests robust ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bell’s lies vs reality again

  
  The non conformer's Canadian Weblog — Authority: 129
      Bell spin Bell’s New Network Fastest And Most Reliable  MONTRÉAL – Canadians can now access the country’s largest, fastest and most reliable wireless network with Bell Mobility’s launch this week of its highly anticipated HSPA network and a range of new HSPA smartphones and turbo sticks. ...
  3 weeks ago

• European Union Takes Its Own Network Neutrality Stance

  
  The SiliconANGLE — Authority: 145
  While the U.S. takes steps to make so-called Network Neutrality principles mandatory under official rules, the European Union moved forward this week with its own set of internet access requirements. Under the proposed EU rules, “national telecoms authorities will have the powers to set minimum quality levels for ...
  3 weeks ago

• How to Solve the Network Neutrality Problem

  
  CommLawBlog — Authority: 124
  Giving ISPs a choice about giving customers a choice As we have reported elsewhere , the FCC has proposed rules to mandate “network neutrality.” Those rules would bar a broadband Internet service provider (ISP) from, among other things, discriminating for or against a provider’s content. The big ISPs are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama, IP Enforcement and Net Neutrality

  
  The Copyright Alliance Blog — Authority: 120
  Encouraging words yesterday from Victoria Espinel at her Senate hearing to be the first IP Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) in the White House, a position created last year by the PRO-IP Act. (See my general take on the hearing here .) She was questioned by the newest member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Al ...
  3 weeks ago

• "Surprising" AT&T Stance on Net Neutrality?

  
  IP Carrier — Authority: 479
  Some people might be shocked to learn that AT&T complies with existing Federal Communications Commission rules. Some people might be shocked to learn that AT&T actually already agrees that "best effort" Internet services ought to treat every packet the same as every other. “We use the principle of ‘us on ...
  3 weeks ago

• My Problem with the Modern Network Neutrality Debate

  
  The SiliconANGLE — Authority: 145
  Generally I find the topic of Network Neutrality to be cumbersome and energy draining, but two weeks in a row, I’ve listened to TWiT give the other side of the argument a half-hearted treatment, and Jason Calacanis this week simply pleaded with the listeners for 15 minutes to go write their congressman to vote ...
  3 weeks ago

• Orts and All

  
  Media and Communications Policy — Authority: 402
  FCCs "OpenInternet" The FCC website, now in Beta, called OpenInternet.Gov is interesting.  It’s not great, but it’s better than you might expect and sort of refreshing. Ostensibly given over to a public discussion of the “important issues facing the Internet,” the site’s primary focus is on one ...
  4 weeks ago

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