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FCC, Comcast and Muddy Water

The FCC made a ruling on Comcast's network management (or P2P traffic interference). There are 2 blogs that give an excellent view of the ruling - one is from OpenID and the other from Prof. Susan Crawford. I wonder why...

Posted on August 5, 2008 1:40 AM

AT&T Profits from Forebearance

Gary Kim writes that AT&T's Profit is up 30% in 2Q08, even with an 8% drop in their core busines: landlines. But when you have iPhone 1 and 2, you can add 1.3M cell customers (probably taken from Sprint). Even...

Posted on July 23, 2008 12:08 PM

Broadband Corruption?

DSLReports.com has an editorial titled, U.S. Broadband Cannot Be Fixed Until You Tackle Corruption. It seems that the new group, Internet for Everyone, has upset Karl. Karl is right in a way. There have been numerous groups over the years,...

Posted on July 15, 2008 11:19 AM

Wow! FCC Sides Against Verizon

In an epic decision today, the FCC sided with cable (Bright House) against Verizon in the battle over CPNI and customers In this Memorandum Opinion and Order, we reject the Enforcement Bureau's April 11, 2008, Recommended Decision in this Accelerated...

Posted on June 23, 2008 1:20 PM

768k - now that's fast!

The FCC has updated its definition of broadband from the clunky 200K to the new, faster 768k. Telecomweb reports:"The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), following years of criticism and threats of Congressional action, yesterday finally issued an order scrapping its previous...

Posted on June 16, 2008 12:31 PM

Bandwidth Hogs

According to Om's article about P2P and Broadband Usage, Arbor Networks data shows that Pareto's Principle works:On fixed and mobile broadband networks where consumer services are provided (i.e., NOT interprovider or typical dedicated Internet access for commercial enterprises):10% of subscribers...

Posted on April 28, 2008 11:24 PM