Baller Herbst List: 2-2-06
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BROADBAND
Grand Rapids, MI requiring net neutrality as part
of municipal network
wirelesscommunity.info
"[P]hone companies that do not deploy fiber to the home
will run into tight bandwidth constraints because of the
20 Megabits per second (Mbps) downstream limits of
their new ADSL2+ and VDSL2 technologies. At the least,
such bandwidth limitations will force the Bells to squeeze
more video channels into less channel space, potentially
hurting picture quality."
cabledatacomnews.com
Salem, VA considers municipal broadband
roanoke.com
"Political complexities can be a significant concern"
for advancing municipal broadband, and "must be
navigated just as efficiently as the networking plans
for those projects." (from Mark Wrickson)
wirelessweek.com
Municipal fiber optic backbone and FTTH in Rotterdam
muniwireless.com
Jeff Chester of Center for Digital Democracy on
net neutrality debate
democraticmedia.org
Business Week on net neutrality and telco "bandwidth hogs":
"Documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission
show that Verizon Communications is setting aside a wide lane
on its fiber-optic network for delivering its own television
service. . . . [M]ore than 80% of Verizon's current capacity is
earmarked for carrying its service, while all other traffic jostles
in the remainder. . . .'If you deliver video the way Verizon does
now, that makes it very hard for others to compete,' says
Carnegie Mellon's [Marvin] Sirbu." . . .
businessweek.com
ipdemocracy.com
. . . "Basically what's happening here is the telcos didn't
think far enough ahead to build new networks that can
actually accommodate both the internet and their television
pipe dreams... so they're just shoving the internet part aside."
techdirt.com
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts says the company "hasn?t held
any discussions with content providers about charging
'two-tiered' Internet access fees."
ipdemocracy.com
Om Malik on AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre's "threatening
(and very confusing)" statements re: network neutrality . . .
gigaom.com
. . . Ed Whitacre selected as "Texan of the Year"
herald-zeitung.com
More on Kushnick's book alleging a $200B telecom swindle
dslreports.com
Verizon FiOS in Manatee County, FL
cedmagazine.com
More on AT&T's update on Project Lightspeed, etc.
lightreading.com
WIRELESS
City of Cambridge and MIT partner to provide free citywide
wireless mesh network by summer: ''We want to make
technology available to everybody, regardless of their
economic standing"
boston.com
wifinetnews.com
Free "Public Wi-Fi" webinar Feb. 22 at 11 a.m.,
featuring Philadelphia CIO Dianah Neff
emediawire.com
Santa Cruz Sentinal editorial strongly endorses Joint Venture
Silicon Valley Network: "sounds almost too good to be true."
santacruzsentinel.com
"Municipal Wi-Fi catches on in U.S. cities"
pcmag.com
"Minneapolis has found another way to assert its hipness:
Internet everywhere."
startribune.com
VIDEO
More on Indiana telecom/franchise reform bill:
FreedomWorks pushing to get franchise reform provisions
returned in Senate version (from Chuck Sherwood & Bunnie Riedel)
freedomworks.org
Independent telcos using local fare to differentiate video services
cedmagazine.com
Time Warner Cable's Q4 revenues up 13 percent;
full-year revenues up 12 percent
cedmagazine.com
Hillborough County, FL approves Verizon franchise
sptimes.com
Comcast plans to cut INet and PEG services in Ipswich, Mass.
www2.townonline.com
House passes DTV hard date legislation, again -
over-the-air analog to end Feb. 17, 2009
(from Benton Foundation)
broadcastingcable.com
telephonyonline.com
multichannel.com
Cable's family tiers "temporarily placate lawmakers"
njtelecomupdate.com
Mayor of Trenton say a la carte cable
"will give consumers less for more"
buffalonews.com
Nexstar's retrans. consent agreements with 150 cable ops
within 27 markets to generate $48M over 3-5 years
mediaweek.com
VOIP
"VoIP is a feature, not a product"
techdirt.com
VoIP adoption "slow and steady"
dslreports.com
VoIP in Eastern Europe
lightreading.com
OTHER NEWS
"Trespass is one of the ancient legal theories relied upon
more and more by courts that are grappling with Internet cases."
news.com.com
techdirt.com
"How to evade Google search"
nytimes.com
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