telecommunications
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Neutralizing Net Neutrality
Net neutrality may end this year. Verizon, AT&T and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) are spearheading a three-pronged attack against the open Internet and other open forms of digital communications. If they succeed, telecommunications will be further “deregulated” and, thus, further privatized and monopolized. As a consequence, telecom services will get more expensive, local requirements subordinated to the whims of huge corporate monopolies, competition and innovation will suffer and U.S. world ranking in terms of broadband speed – 15th today! – will further erode. One attack involves Verizon’s court challenge to the FCC’s very authority to regulate digital communications. […]
by David Rosen on Feb 4, 2013 -
GOOGLE FIBER
If you live in Kansas City, MO or Kansas City, KS, you might soon get first-world Internet service courtesy of Google Fiber. As of April 2012, almost two-thirds (66%) of American adults could access some form of broadband connection from their home, whether via DSL, cable or fiber line or via a wireless service. However, about a quarter of local Kansas City residents have no broadband access from home. The Google network will deliver symmetric (i.e., two-way) 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) connectivity to households across the city as well as to schools, libraries and hospitals. The 1 Gbps data […]
by David Rosen on Aug 27, 2012 -
MEDIA CURRENT: ARE YOU BEING THROTTLED?
Do you watch movies via a wireless connection on your laptop, tablet, smartphone or even TV set? If so, have you received a love letter from your service provider informing you to either go on a digital data diet or plan to pay more to suck down more streaming 1s and 0s? If not, it will arrive shortly. The leading wireless companies are changing the usage and pricing models they have long used, shifting the industry from one with “unlimited” plans to “limited” deals. These new limited plans tier data downloads to the ability to pay. AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Virgin […]
by David Rosen on Mar 19, 2012
