Michael Giberson The NYTimes has a story on municipal WiFi, focused on Tapei, Tiawan. You get a sense of the story line from the title: “What if They Built an Urban Wireless Network and Hardly Anyone Used It?” That such a vast and reasonably priced wireless network has attracted so few users in an otherwise …
Michael Giberson Ray Gifford offers a realist’s prognostication on the likely effects of network neutrality: only the lawyers win. Not the end of the world if network neutrality laws pass, not the end of the world if they fail to pass. Only, if network neutrality becomes law, low latency high-speed service will be routed through …
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Michael Giberson Anti-net neutrality campaign Hands Off the Internet wants to show it, too, can be “hip” to the ways of the kids on the internet. To show how “with it” they are, they’ve put together a purposely crudely-drawn animation explaining the dangers of net neutrality. Similarly crude economic reasoning underlies their voice-over. The basic …
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Michael Giberson First ninjas, and now the Gun Owners of America have come out fighting for “net neutrality.” PFF wordslinger Randolph May ably defends open competition against the would-be regulators with a well-aimed long blog post, “Way Off Target.”
Michael Giberson The policy wonks at the Progress and Freedom Foundation have long worked to oppose the creation of overly restrictive “network neutrality” regulations, for example releasing the “The Digital Age Communications Act?s Regulatory Framework and Network Neutrality: A Statement of the DACA Regulatory Framework Working Group” by Randolph May, James Speta, Kyle Dixon, James …
Lynne Kiesling In his last column in Technology Review in December 2004, Michael Schrage talked about the importance of the diffusion of innovation. He made a lot of very trenchant observations, including The challenge for policymakers and populations alike is how to cope with the pervasive-and perverse-consequences of ever more people gaining access to ever …
Lynne Kiesling So what, you say? It amounts to the deregulation of DSL, through the vehicle of saying that phone companies no longer have to share their phone lines with competitors. It puts DSL on more equal regulatory footing with cable, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Brand X decision earlier this year that …
Lynne Kiesling I have taken advantage of the relative liberty and calm of the past three days to work on an overdue paper with a co-author, to whom I owe my share of the work. The question is this: in a physical network that retains some natural monopoly characteristics while some of the rest of …
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Lynne Kiesling A bill pending in the Texas Senate would open up the market for broadband over power lines in the state, according to this Ft. Worth Star Telegram article from Monday. Note in this excerpt that the issue of who pays for the service and why they pay for it is present, as it …
Lynne Kiesling On Sunday Radley Balko had a disturbing, if not surprising, note about possible regulation of cable and satellite channels. He quotes a column in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: A U.S. Senate bill authorizing government censorship of cable and satellite TV channels references children 44 times and the First Amendment not at all. His post …
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