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• Bell’s lies vs reality again

  
  The non conformer's Canadian Weblog — Authority: 418
      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 days ago

• European Union Takes Its Own Network Neutrality Stance

  
  The SiliconANGLE — Authority: 144
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• How to Solve the Network Neutrality Problem

  
  CommLawBlog — Authority: 122
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Obama, IP Enforcement and Net Neutrality

  
  The Copyright Alliance Blog — Authority: 416
  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 ...
  6 days ago

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

  
  IP Carrier — Authority: 480
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• My Problem with the Modern Network Neutrality Debate

  
  The SiliconANGLE — Authority: 144
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Orts and All

  
  Media and Communications Policy — Authority: 103
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• mediageek 29 October 2009: FCC Revisits Network Neutrality

  
  mediageek radioshow — Authority: 103
  FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is showing no trepidation about jumping in to Network Neutrality, a subject that he advised President Obama on prior to the election. The Commission recently approved a proceeding to create new rules enshrining principles of internet freedom into policy. On this week’s show we discuss ...
  1 week ago

• uTorrent 2.0 To Elimininate The Need For ISP Throttling

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 460
  ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years already. Although the true reasons for this are not always clear, some ISPs have argued that a high number of BitTorrent connections are slowing down other applications and traffic. read more
  1 week ago

• My submission to the CRTC Re: Local TV Matters

  
  Digital Copyright Canada - All Canadian Citizens are "Rights Holders"! — Authority: 488
  I took the form at http://localtvmatters.ca as well as the CRTC form and sent the following intervention. The topic was the connections between convergence and the future of television, including local television. read more
  1 week ago

• Pandemic Would Impair Residential Broadband, GAO Says

  
  IP Carrier — Authority: 480
  In a serious pandemic, residential Internet access demand is likely to exceed the capacity of Internet providers’ network infrastructure, says the Government Accountability Office. That means enterprise and government disaster recovery efforts that depend on residential broadband connections may not work as planned, ...
  1 week ago

• Google Blocks Calls to About 100 High-Cost Telephone Numbers

  
  IP Carrier — Authority: 480
  Google says that although it still blocks use of Google Voice to terminate calls to fewer than 100 U.S. telephone numbers with unusually high termination cost, it still does so. Earlier, Google Voice had been blocking calls to thousands of numbers in some exchanges. In a letter to the Federal Communications ...
  1 week ago

• Google: Were only half guilty of blocking phone calls

  
  Computerworld Blogs — Authority: 514
  Google, being investigated by the FCC for whether its blocking of phone calls on Google Voice violates the law, has essentially told the agency that it should be let off the hook because its cut back on the calls it blocks. Thats like saying youre only a little bit pregnant. read more
  1 week ago

• Siding with the Geeks on Network Neutrality

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  One of the perennial tropes of the network neutrality debate has been the tendency of the pro-regulation side to paint it as a David-and-Goliath struggle between big, evil corporations and the little guy. Way back in 2006, James Gattuso pointed out how silly this is: in fact, the push for network neutrality is ...
  1 week ago

• After net neutrality, will we need "Google neutrality?"

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 756
  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has mounted a recent push to turn network neutrality "principles" into official regulations —and in doing so has stirred up the net neutrality hornets nest once again. The issues involved are thorny when you wade deep into the weeds, but consumer-level support for network ...
  2 weeks ago

• Defining Network Neutrality

  
  Watching the Watchers — Authority: 125
  The net neutrality fight is on, as FCC Chairman Julius Genachowskis proposal for new rules moved on to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. Now, the two sides are digging in: AT&T;, telcos, and unions on one side; Google and content providers on the other. I tend to favor protecting end-to-end in the Internet context, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Consumption-Based Billing Coming?

  
  IP Carrier — Authority: 480
  Sandvine has released Usage Management 2.5, a software solution that enables fixed-line network operators to implement consumption-based billing models, real-time subscriber communications and multiple service plan tiers. The move is significant as it suggests retail pricing might move in that direction in the future, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Real-Time Internet Traffic Doubles

  
  IP Carrier — Authority: 480
  Real-time entertainment has almost doubled its share of total Internet traffic from 2008 to 2009, while gaming has increased its share by more than 50 percent, says Sandvine. Real-time entertainment traffic (streaming audio and video, peer-casting, place-shifting, Flash video) now accounts for 26.6 percent of total ...
  2 weeks ago

• Marsha Blackburn Serves Big Media Moneybags

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 547
  Yesterday, U.S. Representative Marsha Blackburn introduced legislation that will forbid the Federal Communications Commission from doing its job by regulating the structure of Internet communications to Congress. The bill is aimed at preventing efforts by the FCC to preserve network neutrality, the classic state ...
  2 weeks ago

• Blackburn Says Don’t Burden Federal Communications Commission With Regulating Communications

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 476
  Representative Marsha Blackburn regards equal access to Internet broadband as a barrier to freedom - the freedom of corporations to squeeze out independent voices.
  2 weeks ago

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