Baller Herbst List: 5-29-07
BROADBAND
Business Week: "[M]uch has happened in only the
last three to five years to boost our thirst for bandwidth.
Given another three years, it can't help but grow further."
tinyurl.com
"There’s a dirty little secret in the broadband industry:
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) don’t have the capacity
to deliver the bandwidth that they claim to offer. . . .
Unlimited doesn’t always mean unlimited, as many ISPs
impose a ‘fair use’ policy which masks a monthly cap.
Others employ bandwidth throttling, where under certain
circumstances download speeds are reduced significantly."
tinyurl.com
Predictions for home networks in 2012
dslreports.com
Congressman pushing for broadband in rural Appalachia
dslreports.com
"Copper landlines gone by 2013"
telephonyonline.com
"In broadband, China zooms, India stalls"
gigaom.com
American Conservative Union sends letter to
FCC opposing net neutrality regs
lasarletter.net
WIRELESS
"There is a seemingly steady stream of skepticism
in the media and elsewhere about some of the early
deployments of muniwireless networks. This is
healthy and needed and it’s important that we
point out problems so that we can fix them –
as long as we view things in the context of
problem-solving and not in the context of fear-mongering."
muniwireless.com
"Applications Must Drive Muni Wireless Deployments"
-- review of ROI-positive applications in public safety,
traffic control, meter reading, etc; "Fast-forward to 2007
and the surging popularity of the “free” municipal
wireless network. Muni wireless sounded a clarion
call to politicians everywhere, with the promise of free
access guaranteeing fifteen minutes of national fame
to the mayors of even the smallest hamlets. How quickly
they forgot history! . . .Selling cheap wireless access
services to consumers is wildly popular, but it’s a really
tough business to make profitable. Giving away access
in hopes of ad revenue is even crazier. How many
dot-bombs relied on selling “eyeballs” to advertisers? . . .
So where is the real business case for muni wireless, anyway?"
killerapp.com
"The Economist cites need for muni Wi-Fi"
muniwireless.com
Portland [OR] activists critique capabilities city
MetroFi wireless network
muniwireless.com
Peoria, IL continues to mull municipal wireless
dslreports.com
EarthLink signs deal for fiber backhaul for
citywide wireless network in Corpus Christi
muniwireless.com
Using Wi-Fi with RFID for tracking people and things
tinyurl.com
"Wi-Fi routers: Silent, blinking death?"
tinyurl.com
wifinetnews.com
VIDEO
More on cable rates not falling in Texas:
"The Texas legislators were promised that they'd see
'competition' and dramatic reductions in prices in
exchange for removing local government's ability to
determine what is done with local property. And as
the phone company juggernaut rolled through state
legislatures they were promised state after state the same
-- and told them it had worked in Texas, the first state
in the union to enact such a law. They told that story
about the success of competition in the halls of
Congress as well. It was easy to believe; after all
everyone knows that competition brings lower prices.
Except it hadn't worked. And it still isn't working...."
tinyurl.com
dslreports.com
AT&T video franchising "a front yard issue" -
Wisconsin town administrator: “'I can guarantee you
that when they start putting these boxes in residential
areas, people will call, and they will expect that their
local government can do something about it'...
He would like to think it could."
tinyurl.com
No local cable access channels on Verizon system
in Mass., apparently due to interconnection negotiation
delays with Comcast
tinyurl.com
Criticism of Mass. statewide video franchising bill
-- "Local control means better cable service"
tinyurl.com
OTHER NEWS
More on Google-DoubleClick:
"Strictly speaking, privacy is not an antitrust issue"
nytimes.com
NYT on cyberwar in Estonia
tinyurl.com
tinyurl.com
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