Net Neutrality tag
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Shrihari on Net Neutrality
Shrihari Pandit of the VPF was having a discussion with me about how in the future anyone will be able to broadcast TV over IP. I mentioned net neutrality and he came up with an interesting point. If indeed service...
A Competitive Telecom Proof
While it’s been decades since my last geometry class here is the first proof I have written since high school. After rereading this a few times it is obviously not a proof but still reminds me enough of one for...
Internet Telephony Magazine April 2006 Publisher's Outlook
The following is a portion of my April 2006 Internet Telephony Magazine Publisher's Outlook:There is Enough Broadband CompetitionI get the general sense that our government believes we already have enough broadband competition. I think that the FCC believes service providers...
Hunter Newby on Net Neutrality and VoIP Peering
You may know Hunter Newby from Telx as he writes a VoIP peering column for Internet Telephony Magazine. I often speak at events with Hunter and this past week I was speaking about voice peering at Comptel while Hunter was...
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin Speech
Today, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin spoke at the Comptel Spring 2006 show to a group of a few hundred competitive service providers. Comptel is not the first place you would imagine the Chairman would speak. In fact I thought I...
iPod Neutrality
While we in the US are all busy talking about Net Neutrality and the pros and cons of each side of the argument, French government officials are beginning to implement music neutrality, which will force Apple to ensure its music...
Quoted in the New York Times
The last few weeks have been pretty hectic as a number of reporters have been asking me about VoIP and net neutrality in order to get my opinions on the matters. I have lost track of all the different reporters...
AT&T BellSouth Merger
The merger between telecom giants, AT&T and Bellsouth was expected and was mentioned in an Executive Suite interview I had many months ago with Aaron Cowell the CEO of US LEC.With this merger it seems that the old Ma Bell...
Is 'Net Neutrality' Enforceable?
TMCnet’s Patrick Barnard sent me a blog entry as this doesn’t pass as an article in its current form. Pat doesn’t have a blog at the moment so I figured I would post it for him. There are some thought-provoking...
Internet Nondiscrimination Act
By now you may have heard of Senator Wyden’s “Internet Nondiscrimination Act of 2006.” Under the proposed bill, network operators would be prohibited from charging companies for faster delivery of their content to consumers over the Internet or favoring certain...
Net Neutrality Thoughts
The Wall Street Journal has a great article on net neutrality and in it there are quotes from people against net neutrality from companies such as Vonage and Cisco. On the opposing side of course are LECs. Here is an...
Net Neutrality Article
If you are trying to get a handle on the impending net neutrality debate in Congress, read this article from Patrick Barnard that does the issue tremendous justice....
PPLive and Net Neutrality
I was a bit harsh when I said it was game over for the LECs in a recent blog entry about content providers providing a Tivo-like service that prerecords a number of programs so as to simulate live TV. This...
Another Net Neutrality Article
There isn’t too much that is new in this Net Neutrality article but it does give a good summary of what is happening and assembles some good quotes in a single place so you can see what high profile people...
SBC Goes Trick-Or-Treating
Underestimating the RBOCs would be a tragic mistake. The CLECs learned this a short while back, and now many of them are out of business or about to be. Incumbent telcos have armies of lawyers and lobbyists and decades of...
