Baller Herbst List: 4-16-07
NATIONAL BROADBAND STRATEGY
"A 100 Megabit Nation by 2015" - "FTTH Council
asks Congress to legislate goal and strategy this
year"
broadbandproperties.com
Asia Pacific region plans next generation networks
itu.int
satnews.com
Board says UK must move quickly to develop
high-capacity networks: "Ministers and regu-
lators have just two years to find ways of
encouraging investment in the next generation
of high-speed broadband, or the UK’s compe-
titiveness will suffer...Existing internet access
networks, and those being rolled out, will be
too slow to meet the demands of the most
bandwidth-hungry businesses and households
by 2012"
ft.com
"British Telecom slows FTTH rollout"
dslreports.com
“With the Internet no longer constrained by
slow connections and computer processors
and high costs for storage, researchers say it's
time to rethink the Internet's underlying archi-
tecture, a move that could mean replacing net-
working equipment and rewriting computer
software to better channel future traffic over
the existing pipes. ... One challenge in any
reconstruction, though, will be balancing the
interests of various constituencies. The first
time around, researchers were able to toil
away in their labs quietly. Industry is play-
ing a bigger role this time, and law enforce-
ment is bound to make its needs for wire-
tapping known.”
seattletimes.nwsource.com
BROADBAND
"[I]n the year since Burlington's publicly owned
(it is not, however, publicly financed) fiber-optic
hub began operations, it has attracted interest
from more than a dozen small cities and towns
in the state — some of which are negotiating
with the company: multi-town coalition "plans
to create fiber optic infrastructure for every
home in the three towns, run a line to the hub
in Burlington and then invite the private sector
to provide content over the lines."
(JB: Bravo, Tim Nulty!)
timesargus.com
Sascha Meinrath: Beyond digital inclusion;
saschameinrath.com
Three more articles on academic researchers'
efforts to redesign the Internet
nwitimes.com
nwitimes.com
nwitimes.com
P2P taking off
gigaom.com
LUS proceeds with plans for FTTP system
head-end facilities
theadvertiser.com
Tullahoma Utility Board (TN) to seek city
approval for fiber project
tullahomanews.com
Pennsylvania residents try to comply with
state's pathetic aggregation rules
dailyamerican.com
WIRELESS
"CenturyTel has unofficially launched its
first, modest Wi-Fi cloud of an eventual mam-
moth wireless cloud covering nearly all of
Pierce County [WA]" (from Diane Lachel)
thenewstribune.com
Portland, OR's MetroFi wireless network gets
clean bill of health from Uptown Services,
"clearing the way for tripling the free network's
service area in as little as a month"; "Uptown
Services found that 99 percent of the 70
installed APs provided at least 1 Mbps down-
stream connectivity and all provided at least
256k upstream connectivity and that the net-
work was available 91 percent of the 711 hours
in which they tested."
oregonlive.com
muniwireless.com
Former FCC commissioner James Quello:
Using broadcast "white space" for unli-
censed wireless could cause "devastating"
TV interference: "The unlicensed approach
was originally intended to make spectrum
available for new rural broadband services.
Certainly, rural America deserves a choice
in such services, and wireless broadband
will help reach remote areas. But there is
spectrum available in rural areas that, with
proper planning, can be utilized for broad-
band services without harming consumers'
digital reception. Unfortunately, the pro-
ponents of unlicensed devices have ven-
tured way beyond providing rural broad-
band services."
broadcastingcable.com
"Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?"
news.independent.co.uk
CALEA
Extensive FAQ on CALEA compliance for
WISPs
isp-planet.com
VIDEO
Chmn. Martin proposes requirement for broad-
casters to place public file online; NAB opposes
broadcastingcable.com
Coverage of NATOA conf. call on video fran-
chising; "Video competition is not going to solve
all customer-service problems, so cities and
counties still need to craft and enforce local
guidelines...Those standards could be most
successful if written to guide all service provi-
ders in town, not just cable operators"
multichannel.com
More on FL statewide franchise debate;
Senate bill an improvement, says Consumer
Federation of America
tallahassee.com
More on WI statewide franchising debate:
"Legislation proposed in Wisconsin could
bring ... competition. Unfortunately, it also
could bring changes you won't like."
gazetteextra.com
Editorial opposing TN statewide franchising
bill -- "Legislators shouldn't take regulatory
control away from the level of government
that is closest to the people."
commercialappeal.com
commercialappeal.com
commercialappeal.com
53% of Americans would replace their satellite
or cable TV subscriptions with broadband if
the content offered was the same, says Zogby
poll
dslreports.com
VOIP
Vonage has no workaround Verizon's patents
usatoday.com
dslreports.com
Cable losing VoIP edge?
gigaom.com
PRIVACY
Bush Admin. proposes new changes to relax
legal restrictions on domestic communications
interception; action not likely soon,says Sen.
Spector
nytimes.com
OTHER NEWS
Q&A with Michael Copps
broadcastingcable.com
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