Net Neutrality Links 02-03-2008
Well, that’s when they would have been published if history had dictated it… (is Hawaii a bit out of sync timewise?)
Grant Gross obviously has no idea that Scott Cleland is a paid shill for the Telcos, not a critic - wake up Grant.
Maybe you should not be neutral about Net neutrality
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
Tiered pricing is a key argument in the bigger fight over Net neutrality. Net neutrality is an egalitarian belief that Internet users should be able to …
US Presidential Candidates Reveal Positions On Some IP Issues
Intellectual Property Watch - Geneva,Switzerland
The best way to address the concerns of proponents of Net neutrality is to remove government-imposed barriers to entry into the Internet provider market. …
Our Tech President Endorsements: Barack Obama and John McCain
TechCrunch - Atherton,CA,USA
He is staunchly in favor of net neutrality, and has promised to make it a priority to reinstate it in his first year in office. He has proposed intelligent …
U2 Manager Wants ISPs to Filter File Sharers; Threat Level Calls For U2 Filter
By Ryan Singel
For a program to sequester all U2 packets into Room 641a, THREAT LEVEL would gladly denounce every tenet of Net Neutrality and endorse rigorous, unrelenting deep packet inspection. Atchung Baby! I’d even pay permanent surcharge on my …
Congressional Hearing Hears Testimony that Public Access Channels are Under Threat by Cable Firms and AT&T
It wasn’t until COPE hit the Senate where Senator Stevens got tangled up in tube talk and net neutrality that the federal franchise train derailed for good. COPE failed, but a legislative template had been put in place, after all the …
Telcos Win Big In The House Over Net Neutrality
VoIP-News - San Francisco,CA,USA
The Markey amendment to mandate Net Neutrality was defeated and removed before passage of the overall bill with a vote that was somewhat along party lines … Although voting on the bill and amendments was not expected until Friday (today), the FCC, telco lobby and opposition in the house to Net Neutrality all stepped up activity yesterday and rushed voting on the bill and amendments through.
Net neutrality: Return us to a productive landscape
By Robert Woodrich
There’s a lot of loose talk about network neutrality these days. Do they mean neutral as in Switzerland, or neutral as in PRNDL (think car transmission)? Network neutrality means freedom to compete honestly, freedom to innovate and, ultimately, freedom to express ideas. Net neutrality is summarized in three principles: nondiscrimination, interconnection and access. …
Telecom Colorado Campaign Donations Shift to Democrats
By Dan Whipple
As the new Congress considers legislating network neutrality for internet service providers, telecoms in Colorado are piling on the campaign cash for Democrats who will decide the issue. Campaign donations from telecoms in the state have shifted dramatically from Republican candidates to Democratic ones over the 2004-2008 election cycles.
Critic: Tech companies trying open spectrum too much
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
By Grant Gross, IDG News Service. Tech companies pushing for access to spectrum “white spaces” and for net neutrality and open access on broadband and wireless networks have an antiproperty agenda, said one critic on Wednesday.
Open access and other conditions on the 700MHz spectrum currently being auctioned by the FCC may be suppressing bids and limiting the uses winning bidders have for the spectrum, added Scott Cleland, founder of telecom analyst firm The Precursor Group, speaking at the U.S. Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee’s 2008 State of the ‘Net Conference in Washington, D.C. Cleland voiced a contrarian view during a discussion of spectrum policy; other speakers called on the U.S. Congress and the FCC to open up more spectrum to unlicensed uses.
Here Comes Trouble: The Future of Free
By Daniel Berninger
As with efforts to unwind net neutrality, competition represents a last resort for most telcos. Net neutrality keeps the dream of counting bits like minutes on hold, because as long as a voice bit costs the same as a video bit or a …
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